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While traversing the scenic peaks of the Adirondacks or canoeing through quiet backcountry streams, few first-year students are thinking about algorithms and linear optimization. But these mathematical ideas are as much a part of Hamilton orientation trips as any pack or paddle: they ensure that incoming students have the most worthwhile experience possible.

Margaret Bundy Scott Humanities Professor of Literature Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper titled “‘Misogynist Chaucer’ or ‘all womanis frend’? Reevaluating Bannatyne’s Chaucer” at the 17th International Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, held at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in July.

Professor of History John Eldevik presented a paper in July at the annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, as part of a panel on "Networks and Entanglements in the Cult of Saints".

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jack Martinez-Arias recently published an article titled "Ante el realismo cíclico en los Andes: la narrativa especulativa de Edmundo Paz Soldán" in the peer-reviewed journal Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura (Colorado State University).

An article by Associate Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend and co-authors Caroline Chivily ’19 and Casey McAndrews ’21, among others, appears in the June issue of Molecular Ecology.

Courtney Gibbons’ interest in public policy began with the 1988 presidential election and a passionate defense of a vegetable. It’s an unexpected start to a story about a math professor — until you learn she is spending the academic year working on Capitol Hill.

Assistant Professor of German Studies Franziska Schweiger was selected to participate in a four-week summer residency program at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin has been awarded a $192,757 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the causes and consequences of global police militarization-- the process by which police forces come to adopt the weaponry, organizational practices, and accountability structures more typical of military forces.

Getty and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) recently named Assistant Professor of Art History Arathi Menon as one of only 10 recipients of this year’s Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art.

Hamilton students take on unique projects that reflect their talents and interests. In many cases, they collaborate with faculty mentors on this work, which often leads to co-authored papers, joint presentations at professional conferences, and professors mentoring students during academic competitions. Check out what some of our students have been up to recently.