News

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, is the co-author of a three year, $500,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to ASIANetwork, a scholarly society that serves 150 liberal arts colleges with Asian Studies programs, including Hamilton.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck and members of his research group recently published an article titled “Room-Temperature Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution of 2-Halopyridinium Ketene Hemiaminals with Sulfur Nucleophiles.”

A proposal submitted by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Carolyn Hutchinson for the Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions program for 2025 was recently approved.

The glens of Hamilton College are poised to receive national attention through Assistant Professor of Biology Peter Guiden’s new project funded by a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant. Alongside Associate Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend and Northern Illinois University’s Holly Jones, Guiden seeks to untangle the complex relationships between deer and rodents that could be shaping our forests.

Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin has been awarded a $68,974 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada to fund a new project on "The U.S. Military in a Political Crisis."

Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently published a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth, presented a talk at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, and was awarded a course development grant.

During fall break, Associate Professor of Geosciences Catherine (Cat) Beck hosted the annual “all hands meeting” of researchers on the Turkana Miocene Project.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Aaron Strong were awarded a National Science Foundation grant from the Sociology Program. Under the five-year $346,149 grant, they will study rural community perceptions of climate action pathways in New York, New Zealand, and Sweden.

Learn about just a few of our students’ and faculty members' accomplishments this summer and as the academic year gets underway.

Associate Professor of Biology Natalie Nannas recently received grants for ongoing projects and published a paper.