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It was billed as a humanities colloquium, but there was a whole lot of science going on. That’s because Spencer Kelly, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Yukari Hirata, associate professor of Japanese, were presenting the results of their neurolinguistic research, and their official sponsor was the Harvey Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Study in […]

As Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø junior Jeremy Bennett ’09 studies in London this semester, he’s getting a real-life lesson in personal finances. Every fish and chips dinner, hostel stay, and souvenir is taking a big bite out of Bennett’s wallet. He and thousands of other students studying abroad can blame the weak U.S. dollar, which is making […]

The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø community on Thursday took part in a nationwide discussion about global warming. Nearly 20 discussions, workshops, and film screenings were held as part of Focus the Nation, a teach-in focused on finding solutions to global warming and to raising the issue’s political profile. The campuswide effort, organized by a team of 30 students […]

The radio show must go on. And so it did for Arnie Arnesen, a political analyst and longtime radio and TV show host who visited Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø Tuesday to talk to students about the presidential primaries. Arnesen has been on talk radio for nearly 20 years, and each weekday hosts the Chowder in the Morning program, […]

Many Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø students are focused on the environment and they want the rest of the country to be, too. A team of 30 students working with Robert Turner, professor of economics and environmental studies, organized campus events as part of Focus the Nation, a national teach-in centered on finding solutions to global warming

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø students taking part in the Model European Union (EuroSim) conference in Germany had the chance to tackle pressing issues such as independence for Kosovo and the image of the European Union. The international conference was held the first week of January at the European Academy in Otzenhausen, Germany. Assistant professor of political science Mai’a […]

Searching for an interesting example of what Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø alumni do with their degrees? Search no further: a story that appeared this week in The Miami Herald offers an interesting look at Steve Clark, Class of ’96. Clark graduated with a philosophy degree, but instead of heavy-duty soul searching, he turned his attention to Internet searching […]

A Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø degree can connect you to a world of people. That seemed to be the message at this weekend’s Real World program, developed to prepare Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø seniors for life outside of Hamilton. About 150 alumni took time out of their busy schedules, returning to campus to speak with hundreds of seniors for Real […]

Yee-Ann Cho ’90 manages a $200 million portfolio for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropic foundation with $60 billion in resources. Listen In Go to our podcast page to hear Yee-Ann Cho ’90 discuss her work. The big numbers boggle the mind, and the grants awarded by the foundation have a […]

What does former President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky have to do with the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign? Plenty, according to political science professor Robert Kraynak.