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Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan is among the invited artists exhibiting photographs in the Cazenovia College Art Gallery Exhibition, Signs of Life, which opens on Thursday, Sept. 6. An artist's lecture and reception will be held on Sept. 6 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibition, lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The show will close on Sept. 27.

Economics professors Ann Owen and Julio Videras published "Culture and Public Goods: The Case of Religion and the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality" in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management in the September 2007 issue. The paper uses new statistical methods to characterize religious beliefs and concludes that culture does play a role in determining pro-environment behavior. Owen and Videras' research was supported by the Levitt Center's Sustainability Program via a grant from the Blue Moon Fund. Pragyan Pradhan '08 was a research assistant on the project.

Philip Klinkner, associate professor of government and associate dean of students, was quoted in a USA Today article on Wednesday, Aug. 23, titled "Few Dems show for 'Prez on the Rez.'" The article focused on the anticipated absence of top-tier candidates — U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois and former U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina — from Thursday's "Prez on the Rez" debate at the Morongo Band of Mission Indians' reservation in Southern California.

Luce Junior Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies Chris Vasantkumar delivered a paper titled "Tibet as Incidental to Tibetan Studies?: Views From Various Margins" at a plenary session of the First International Seminar of Yung Tibetologists held at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies from August 9 to 13. The seminar's participants hailed from China, India, the United States and various European countries.

An essay titled “My Liberal Arts Education,” by Eric Kuhn ’09 is the top feature article on the home page of mediabistro.com and the third in a new series titled “J-School Confidential.” In his article, Kuhn articulates his reasons for deciding to attend a liberal arts college over a journalism school despite his goal of joining the industry upon graduation.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History and co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, was quoted in an Aug. 9 TIME magazine article titled "The Return of SDS to Campus." In another look back at the '60s, Isserman, with co-author Michael Kazin of Georgetown University, penned an opinion piece that appeared in the Sunday, Aug. 12, edition of Newsday titled "Summer of love beats cynicism of today."

Life Trustee Leonard E. Kingsley ’51 died on Saturday, August 11, in San Francisco of prostate cancer. Described by The San Francisco Chronicle as a “businessman and civic leader with a love of the arts and a commitment to social causes,” he served as an  Alumni Trustee from 1983 to 1987 and a Charter Trustee from 1988 to 1994, at which time he was elected a Life Trustee.

Adirondack Adventure, Hamilton’s eight-day outdoor program for incoming students, has reached a record participation level, with 230 first-year students set to check in for the popular pre-orientation program on August 13. Fifty percent of the class of 2011 has enrolled in 27 different trips, selecting from programs that focus on hiking, canoeing, rock climbing or kayaking at beginning, intermediate or advanced ability levels. All trips are conducted in various locations in the Adirondacks.

The discoveries made during three Antarctic expeditions led by Eugene Domack, Joel W. Johnson Professor of Geosciences, in 2004, 2005 and 2006 were highlighted in the National Science Foundation’s online Discoveries publication in July. The Web site features major discoveries in NSF-funded research areas. The article on Domack’s findings was one of only two included in the Arctic and Antarctic research area on the site in 2007.

In a Reuters News article titled “YouTube gets candidates loosened up . . . sort of; With a new medium and format, some questions were frivolous, but the debate was traditional,” government professor Philip Klinkner shared his views on the novel CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debate conducted this week.