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A recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Are Small Classes Best? It’s Complicated,” included insights offered by Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss, co-author of How College Works.

Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend was recently awarded a $25,400 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support her project “Collaborative Research: Quantifying conserved genomic regions at the within-species level.”

Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was recently invited to become a member of the World Wellbeing Panel, a research program that promotes “wellbeing as the ultimate purpose of all major decision makers, particularly government.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education pointed to the relationship between Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss and the book he co-authored, How College Works, as principal factors in changing Dennison University’s approach to cultivating mentorships.

As the end of the year approaches, a look back at national media coverage of Hamilton reveals articles addressing a wide range of topics, from college selection processes to economic forecasts to NAFTA, the 60s protests and more.

A Newsweek article triggered by a new survey revealing that 51 percent of Republicans said they think former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, compared to just 14 percent of Democrats included reference to Professor of Government Philip Klinkner’s research on birtherism.

Janice Kang ’20, Kalvin Nash ’18 and Allen Park ’18 presented the results of their summer computational chemistry research at the 16th Annual MERCURY conference.

Ann Owen, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, directed a mentoring workshop for junior female economists at top liberal arts colleges and other institutions that do not offer an economics Ph.D.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was recently awarded an International Senior Research Fellowship at Ustinov College, the postgraduate college of Durham University, U.K.

An article co-authored by Associate Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang was recently published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.