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Hamilton College will host "Picture This: A Symposium on Political Cartooning and Illustrating" on Saturday, April 8, 2006, from 12:30 to 5 p.m.  It will feature Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth, United Feature Syndicate cartoonist Rob Rogers and freelance illustrator Steve Brodner whose work is seen regularly in a spectrum of publications from Sports Illustrated to Business Week.  All three artists will speak about their work and careers. Auth's talk is titled " "Sacred Cows Make the Best Hamburger," Brodner's is "The Satiric Vision" and Rogers' is "I Cross the Line."

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera published an article in the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies NewsNet. The article, titled "Out of the Ivory Tower :Integrating Service-Learning into Russian Studies," is about Rivera's experience with integrating a service-learning component into her "Politics of Russia" Class.

Assistant Professor of Economics Stephen Wu was featured in Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education article on  March 27 titled “Where did you get your Ph.D.?”  The article discussed the results of Wu’s study of the relationship between where faculty members get their Ph.D. and where they get a tenure-track job. The results were based on data gathered on approximately 5,000 faculty from the Web sites of six departments at 50 leading colleges and universities.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo attended the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association on March 16-18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He presented a paper on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans titled, “In the Wake of Poseidon: Katrina, Climate Change, and the Coming Crisis of Displacement.” He argued, “The massive displacement of New Orleans residents may be a harbinger of a more general crisis of displacement and homelessness that will be generated by global warming over the course of this century.”  He was a discussant for a roundtable discussion titled, “New and Recent Books in Environmental Political Thought,” for which he reviewed three books.  He also chaired a panel titled "Political Theory in the Greenhouse II: Changing Understandings of Politics."

Derek C. Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics at Hamilton and currently a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics, presented "Human Resource Management and Performance in Retail Trade: Evidence from an Econometric Case Study" in February 2006 at the annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Economic Research in Helsinki.  The paper was written with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo attended the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association on March 16-18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He presented a paper on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans titled, “In the Wake of Poseidon: Katrina, Climate Change, and the Coming Crisis of Displacement.”

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in a Boston Globe article titled "Democrats See Northeast As Ripe For Picking" (March 23, 2006). He commented on how the strategy employed by the Republicans in the midterm elections of 1994 to defeat the Democrats could be used by the Democrats in this year's election. Klinkner was quoted in an earlier article in The New York Times, "For Democrats, Lots of Verses, But No Chorus," (March 5, 2006), that also addressed the possible outcomes of the midterm elections next fall and the role national issues might play. Klinkner is the editor of Midterm: Elections of 1994 in Context (Westview Press).

Fire on the Mountain, a documentary film about the U.S. Army’s Tenth Mountain Division in World War II, will be shown on Thursday, March 30, at 8 p.m. in Hamilton College’s Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The film will be followed by a discussion with Hamilton history professor Maurice Isserman, Hamilton geosciences professor Todd Rayne, Director of Adventure Programs Andrew Jillings and Donald B. Potter, Hamilton emeritus geology professor and World War II veteran and member of the 10th Mountain Division. The program is free and open to the public.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Brian J. Glenn recently hosted a conference with Steve Teles at the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University. Glenn is co-editing a forthcoming book with Teles, who, coincidentally, was also once a visiting faculty member in the Hamilton government department.  The conference was focused on their book, Conservatives and American Political Development, which follows the role of conservatives in the development of environmental, education and Social Security policy.

Associate Dean of Students for Diversity Berenecea Johnson spoke on "New Inspiration for the Nation," a program broadcast on WPHR Power 106.9 FM in Auburn, N.Y. on Sunday, March 12. She addressed "What are the factors that affect the academic success of African American students in high school and beyond?"