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Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members by Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen during the May 3 faculty meeting.
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Karen Brewer, the Silas D. Childs Professor in Agricultural Chemistry, was recently named a VIPEr (Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource) Fellow.
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The Chemistry Department recently hosted organic chemistry students and faculty from Colgate University and Hobart and William Smith Colleges for SmORS, the annual Summer Organic Research Symposium.
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Let there be light: Chemistry students are spending their summer using basic research to synthesize new materials to increase the fluorescence of rare earth elements.
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The annual Dean’s Exceptional Service Awards and Scholarly Achievement awards were awarded to Rob Hopkins, Karen Brewer, Tina Hall, Dan Chambliss, Sall Cockburn, John McEnroe, and Xavier Tubau.
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President David Wippman recently announced the appointment of four Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.
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Thirteen Hamilton undergraduates and five members of the Chemistry Department attended the 253rd National Meeting of the American Chemistry Society (ACS) in San Francisco April 2nd to 6th.
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While Hamilton students are on spring break, science faculty opened their labs to welcome third graders from Myles Elementary School in New Hartford for some hands-on learning.
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Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer was interviewed by National Public Radio’s Senior Host Robert Siegel on Aug. 23 for an All Things Considered segment, Hamilton College Introduces New Diversity Requirement.” Their conversation centered on the mandate that the requirement be fulfilled within a student’s concentration and how that might be accomplished in subject areas not normally associated with issues of inclusion and difference, identity, culture and social class. Brewer was last year’s chair of the College’s when the requirement was developed.
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Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer presented “Synthesis and spectroscopic studies of rare-earth doped sol-gel and nanocrystalline materials” on April 17 as part of the Chemistry Colloquium at Bryn Mawr College.
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