The newest issue of the national Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics contains an article written by Ryan Cudworth '25. Ryan wrote "Movement and Sovereignty: The Separation Wall and the Denial of Palestinian Statehood" as his scholars independent research project, advised by Cigdem Cidam, professor of political science.
Learning Experience Designer Sonia Sandoval ’16, who combines music, art, technology and science as the multidisciplinary artist DJ RVMBA, has been nominated for DJ of the Year in the seventh annual Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards, better known as the Eddies. The awards honor exceptional artists across multiple genres, as well as radio DJs, music journalists and publications, photographers, promoters, recording studios and others. Sandoval joins five other local DJs in the category for 2025. The awards ceremony will take place April 27 at 6 p.m. at Proctors.
On Feb. 27, Jordan Smith, Edward E. Hale, Jr. Professor Of English, hosted visits by David Rigsbee, who discussed his recent new and selected poems, The Watchman at the Knife Factory. David Rigsbee, who has taught at a number of colleges including Louisiana State University and the University of Mount Olive, was Smith's undergraduate workshop teacher at Hamilton College, and has just published a digital collection of elegies for his brother, The Sign of the Mermaid, with a foreword by Smith.
Osamu Miyawaki, assistant professor of geosciences, co-authored an article in Geophysical Research Letters. The article, titled “Linking Radiative-Advective Equilibrium Regime Transition to Arctic Amplification”, explores how the Arctic climate will respond to increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Tommaso Gazzarri, professor of classics, recently published “Peace of Mind is Movement. An Application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Seneca’s Ideal of Tranquillitas,” in Metaphors of the Ancient World: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Ancient Sources. Edited by Fabian Horn and published by De Gruyter in Berlin.
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