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A photograph by Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan was selected by The Center for Fine Art Photography as part of it most recent exhibition of photographic fine art, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which opened on Feb. 1. Andrew Darlow, editorial director at Digital Imaging Techniques magazine and a former instructor at the International Center of Photography in New York City, was the juror for the exhibition.

During the week of Feb. 18, Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology emeritus, presented two papers and participated on a panel at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research in New Orleans.

Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has accepted an invitation to join the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Co-operative Studies. His membership on the editorial board of the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economy has also been renewed.

"Regional differences in wage inequality across industries in China," a paper written by Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Bing Yu '03, appears in the February 2008 issue of Applied Economics Letters. The paper explores the causes of very large regional differences in wage inequality in China over the period 1996 to 2001 and finds that the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) varies across Chinese provinces.

Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor written by Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald was published by University of California Press in January 2008. According to the publisher's Web site, MacDonald brings alive a remarkable moment in American cultural history and "tells the colorful story of how a small, backyard organization in the San Francisco Bay Area emerged in the 1960s and evolved to become a major force in the development of independent cinema."

Ann Owen, associate professor of economics and director of the Levitt Center's Sustainability Program, presented a paper she wrote with economics professors Julio Videras and Stephen Wu at Brown University on Feb. 14. The paper, "More Information Isn't Always Better: The Case of the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality" examines how individuals' beliefs about the impact of their actions is related to their behavior.

Derek C. Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has been offered a fellowship from the Charles and Ulla Nyberg Fund, part of the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education, to help support his research on econometric case studies, This award will facilitate his spending part of his sabbatical leave during the 2008-09 academic year at the Helsinki School of Economics as a visiting professor in the economics department.

Publishers Weekly has announced that Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has sold a new book titled Climbing the American Mountain to W.W. Norton & Company. According to the publication, "the book will cover the history of mountaineering in America and Americans in mountaineering, from Darby Field's 1642 ascent of Mount Washington in search of diamonds to Ed Viesturs's 2006 climb of Annapurna in Nepal.

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation recently awarded the Hamilton College Arboretum a $5,000 grant through the Zoos, Botanical Gardens & Aquariums Program for operating expenses. The award will be directed primarily toward for the maintenance and expansion of the arboretum collection with an immediate focus on protecting notable trees.

In reviewing "Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950" by Glenda Gilmore in the Sunday, Feb. 10, edition of The New York Times, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, summarized the book as "an exercise in radical antiquarianism, a series of disparate essays built around interesting personalities, the whole rather less than the sum of its parts."