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Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen contributed an invited chapter to a newly published book examining education at small liberal arts colleges. The Best Kind of College: An Insiders’ Guide to America’s Small Liberal Arts Colleges is edited by Susan McWilliams and John E. Seery and published by SUNY Press. It includes chapters by 30 award-winning professors across the country.

ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal of Asian Studies for the Liberal Arts, co-edited by Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi, is now available through the Open Library of the Humanities (OHL). Trivedi co-edits the semi-annual, double-blind peer reviewed journal with Erin McCarthy of St. Lawrence University.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate recently participated in the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) World Congress in Erfurt, Germany, and co-edited a special issue of the journal CrossCurrents.

On two gorgeous late summer nights, Hamilton student theatre group Bare Naked theatre presented Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, unveiling the Kennedy Center Amphitheatre.

“Contents Under Pressure,” a one-person exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Jane Fine, will be on display at Pierogi in Brooklyn from Sept. 11 through Oct. 11. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, Sept. 11, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Now back on campus this fall for his junior year Alexandru Hirsu ’17 spent his summer exploring the impact that cooperation with the European Union has had on corruption in Romania through a Levitt Center Summer Research Fellowship. Hirsu, along with the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny, will present on their findings during this fall’s Family Weekend.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Carter recently won the 2015 Lake George Music Festival international composition competition with “Too Many Arguments in Line 17” for string quartet and was a composer-in-residence during the August festival.

Hamilton College Performing Arts announces an exciting season of music, theater and dance for the 2015-16 season in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. All performances are at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Hamilton students are flocking to Sadove Terrace for the annual Campus Life Open House, taking place on Friday, Sept. 4. Representatives from student clubs and organizations s well as campus offices and student services are on hand to answer questions and recruit members. The Open House runs until 3 p.m.

Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, a book co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Teaching Literature Book Award.