AHI Undergraduate Fellow Marta Johnson (’13) has accepted a summer position with the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, or ACTA, is a non-profit organization in Washington DC that works to uphold academic freedom, excellence, and accountability in colleges and universities. ACTA addresses the disturbing trend in American [...]
AHI Senior Fellow Michael Rizzo recently discusses the environment and economics with students. In the interview: Professor Michael Rizzo: How an Economist Thinks About the Environment, he shares some of his ideas about what makes for good and bad environmental policy. Michael Rizzo is the Director of the Alexander Hamilton Institute of Rochester and Assistant Professor [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Olivia B. Waxman, former member of the AHI’s undergraduate fellowship program, was recently published in TIME Techland. The online article, “Polling and Social Media Collide with ‘Social Polling,’” about how social media affect the tracking of public opinion (http://techland.time.com/2012/02/20/polling-and-social-media-collide-with-social-polling/#ixzz1nL2zh6s5) appeared on [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute (AHI) is pleased to announce that Carl Menges has accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). Mr. Menges has a long-standing interest in history and the founding of the United States. In 2001, he sponsored a conference at Hamilton College [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce that Undergraduate Fellow Kayla Safran is the inaugural recipient of a $3,500 fellowship award to the Buckley School of Public Speaking. The AHI and the Buckley School partnered to create a fellowship for an AHI Undergraduate Fellow who [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) has announced receipt of the largest single planned gift from an individual to the Institute. The donor, who has requested anonymity, has completed the fifth installment of $100,000, a $500,000 commitment to further the AHI’s mission to promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, [...]
Caleb Nelson, Emerson G. Spies Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia, and Claudia Nelson, Professor of English, Texas A&M University, have accepted invitations to join the Alexander Hamilton Institute. Caleb Nelson has consented to serve the AHI as an academic advisor; Claudia Nelson has consented to join the AHI as a Senior Fellow. Caleb [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce the fourth annual E. M. Bakwin Fellowship competition. Mr. Bakwin, a graduate of Hamilton College (1950) and the University of Chicago (1961), served as Chairman of the Board of MB Financial Bank in Chicago. A long-standing student of Western culture, [...]
