Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper titled "The Trojan War in the British Isles: Anglo-Scottish Conflict and the Invention of Myth" at a conference on "Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations" at the University of Wales in July. The paper examined the evolution of competing English and Scottish origin legends in the late Middle Ages, and their contribution to the development of a nationalist discourse. More ...

WAMC in Albany will feature a reading by Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, on Thursday, Aug. 5, as part of the public radio station’s Academic Minute. The new program airs each weekday at 7:37 a.m. and 3:56 p.m at 90.3 FM in the Clinton area. More ...

Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Gunther Kodat has published an essay, "Unhistoricizing Faulkner," in Faulkner's Sexualities (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010). More ...

De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, was invited to give a plenary speech at the 2010 International Conference on Chinese Education held at Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, in July. The title of his talk was "Classics Reading and the Development of One's Power of Expression." More ...

Industrial and Labor Relations Review published a paper co-authored by Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones titled “Teams, Incentive Pay, and Productive Efficiency: Evidence From A Food-Processing Plant” in the July issue with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen. More ...

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold and Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino traveled to Tunisia (North Africa) in July where they visited an NEH seminar on "Augustine and Perpetua: Autobiography in its Roman Context." More ...

A new, active metabolite called cryptomaldamide was discovered by Robin Kinnel, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, while he was on leave at Scripps Institute of Oceanography during the spring semester. This summer Kinnel is pursuing the synthesis of cryptomaldamide with University of Maastricht graduate student Marta Kolodziejczak who comes to Hamilton through the Junior Year in France Program.
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Robert Kantrowitz '82, professor and chair of mathematics, was a speaker at the Summer Symposium in Real Analysis held this year at The College of Wooster in Ohio, July 13-17. His talk, "Banach algebra norms for spaces of functions of generalized bounded variation," centered around collections of functions of bounded variation that have been known for some time to constitute complete normed linear spaces. More ...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication Heather Ferrara and Kate Northway ’11 are working on an independent research project exploring points of controversy surrounding the Ludovico Sculpture Trail in Seneca Falls, N.Y. More ...

Assistant Director of Custodial Services Casey Wick presented a program session titled “Clearing the Air” on July 15, at APPA2010, a national conference for higher education facilities officers. The three-day conference took place in Boston. Wick’s presentation focused on implementation of sustainable practices in institutional cleaning operations.
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