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President David Wippman co-authored an opinion piece published by Inside Higher Ed on Oct. 12 titled The Education Department鈥檚 Race to the Bottom.
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The College鈥檚 Board of Trustees nominated and elected four candidates to serve as charter trustees. Mason P. Ashe 鈥85, Manal Ataya 鈥01, Peter B. Coffin 鈥81, P鈥14, and Sharon D. Madison 鈥84 joined the board on Oct. 2.
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Oliva Rissland, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Colorado, read a scientific paper every day for 899 days. At the end of that stretch, she picked her favorite: 鈥淭he Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers,鈥 written in 1989 by Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton.
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Week after week, year after year, The Media鈥檚 Effect on Women鈥檚 Body Image, a story written and published on Hamilton鈥檚 news site in 2010, remains at the top of those most read with 182,000 page views. On its 10th anniversary, we contacted the author, Alex Ossola 鈥10, and the researcher, Arielle Cutler 鈥11, for their reactions.
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Crafting Criminal Justice Reform in Response to Black Lives Matter, an experiential learning practicum in the government department, is a timely offering in this evolving environment.
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In 2019, Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie and Photography and Digital Imagery Specialist Marianita Peaslee visited Nevis, Alexander Hamilton鈥檚 birthplace, with three students to begin the process of digitizing historical documents. The manuscripts are now available online.
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President David Wippman co-authored an opinion piece published by The Hill on Sept. 6 titled Blame Shifting.
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A day after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy answered Congress鈥 questions about mail delays and simultaneous with President Trump railing against voting by mail at the Republican Convention, TIME published Professor of Government Robert Martin鈥檚 essay addressing George Washington鈥檚 view of the agency.
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The 91制片厂 Arboretum has been awarded a Level II Accreditation by The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and The Morton Arboretum, for achieving particular standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.
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Social distancing in crows? Associate Professor Andrea Townsend and Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams have published a paper about the challenges of social distancing in humans and other animals.
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