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This summer, Lillia McEnaney ’17 split her time excavating a Greek island and making three-dimensional models of stone inscriptions in Macedonia.  McEnaney was a field volunteer at Despotiko, a late archaic to early classical sanctuary to the Greek God Apollo in the middle of the Cycladic islands. She then participated in a field school at a Balkan Heritage Foundation course in Macedonia.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn presented a paper at the XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. The program was held August 23-29 in Erfurt, Germany.

The Hamilton College community remembers the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the 14th anniversary of the tragedy.  Hamilton alumni Arthur Jones III '84,  Adam J. Lewis '87 and Sylvia San Pio Resta'95 were among those who lost their lives that day.

In the email below sent to the Hamilton community on Sept. 11, 2015, President Joan Hinde Stewart announced the death of Editor Emeritus Frank Lorenz. A memorial service celebrating his life will be held in the College Chapel on Monday, Sept. 28, at 11 a.m.

The work of Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will be on display this fall in exhibitions in New York, California and Washington, D.C.

Jack Gallant, Robert S. Morris Class of 1976 Visiting Fellow and an expert in the science of brain reading research, will present the Morris lecture on Monday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.

The seven students in the pilot class of College 350, Ethnography of Learning, experienced many approaches to learning this summer: classroom, online and through internships. The one credit class, taught by Director of Education Studies Program Susan Mason, is aimed at teaching leadership in organizations.

Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences Doran Larson delivered a paper titled "Prisoners Write the Rights-Bearing Person: Extrapolations from the American Archive," at the 2015 meeting of the Critical Legal Studies Conference in Wroclaw, Poland.

Social media was abuzz this summer when Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew announced that Alexander Hamilton’s spot on the $10 bill would be given to a woman. While most agree that women, and other underrepresented groups, should be prominent on our currency, there is a major disagreement on how to make that happen.  Two Hamilton faculty members are among many Hamiltonians who have spoken publicly and for the media on the topic.

Associate Professor of Literature Katherine H. Terrell recently presented a paper titled "Transmitting the Past: Genealogy and Textuality in Medieval Scottish Historiography" at a symposium on "Knowledge and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland" at the Freie Universitat Berlin.