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Hamilton football alumnus Sean Ryan '94  recently went to work for the National Football League (NFL) as an offensive quality control coach for the New York Giants, according to The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.). 

Ten Hamilton College students traveled to Boston to participate in the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) from Feb. 15 -18. The students are members of Model United Nations, an organization that orchestrates student-run Model U.N. conferences throughout the year. The purpose of the organization is to assist students in improving their public speaking and writing skills while learning about the official U.N. procedures and issues. As members, students assess the problems and possible solutions to regional problems throughout the world.

The Mock Trial Team qualified to attend the national championships for the first time in the team’s history this past weekend in Syracuse. Hamilton’s qualifying team faced Harvard University, Brown University, SUNY Binghamton, and Syracuse University during its four rounds of competition and handed the Harvard team its only two losses of the competition. The members of Hamilton’s qualifying team are Josua Agins '07, Michael Blasie '07, Scott Iseman '07, Ben Johnston '07, Wenxi Li '10, Dillon Prime '07, Alia Rehman '10 and Stacy Sadove '07.

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, written by Hamilton Professor of History Maurice Isserman and Georgetown Professor of History Michael Kazin, has been revised and re-released. This third edition of the book expands its interpretive survey of the political, social and cultural history of 1960s America through additional coverage of youth movements and the New Left including Latino and Asian radical movements.

Joseph Volpe, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1990 to 2006, gave the annual Tolles Lecture, titled “The World Of Opera,” on Sunday, Feb. 18, in the Chapel. Volpe spoke about his career with the Met and some of the issues involved in performing arts management. Each year, the Tolles Lecture Series brings distinguished speakers from the fields of literature, journalism and theater to Hamilton to lecture and meet with students.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo was a featured composer at the 32nd Annual Symposium for New Band Music held at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, this month.  Bayolo conducted a series of clinics and rehearsals of his wind ensemble work, Fanfares, with the Virginia Intercollegiate Band, students selected from seven institutions participating in the symposium.

Geoarchaeology major Mary Beth Day '07 has been named to USA Today’s All-USA College Academic First Team. Each February, USA Today honors 20 undergraduate academic all-stars as its All-USA College Academic Team. Day is the first Hamilton student to earn the honor. The team honors full-time undergraduates who not only excel in scholarship but also extend their intellectual abilities beyond the classroom to benefit society.

History Professor and Reed College graduate Maurice Isserman has written an article for the winter issue of  Reed Magazine titled “And All That – Radicals, Hippies and SDS at Reed.” With the relaunch of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on Reed’s campus, Isserman explores the legacy of radicals, hippies, and SDS at the college. He chronicles the evolution of the organization at Reed and throughout the nation and reflects on how the organization might have been more effective. 

Mack Mariani, visiting assistant professor of government, presented a paper he co-authored with government professor Philip Klinkner last week at the American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference. Titled “The Effect of a Campaign Internship on Political Efficacy, Trust and Responsiveness,” the paper examined how student participation in campaign internships affected their attitudes about political efficacy, trust in government and government responsiveness.

Hamilton College is one of 23 founding colleges and universities participating in the new Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (UNY-HERC). UNY-HERC (www.unyherc.org) is an online consortium in which colleges and universities from across upstate New York unite to provide free information, technology, networking and outreach programs for prospective college faculty and higher education professionals. Via this innovative resource, colleges hope to successfully recruit and retain highly qualified and diverse faculty and staff, as well as to help spouses of faculty and staff find area employment.