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Professor of Art Bill Salzillo has been elected to the Society of American Graphic Artists. Over the years the membership has included most of America's foremost printmakers. Membership in the society enables artists to show their work in New York City through important exhibitions with substantial awards.

Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Oldfield presented at a conference titled "Totalitarian Laughter: Cultures of the Comic Under Socialism" held at Princeton University on May 15-18. Her presentation was titled "Laughter and the Anxiety of Ethnicity: The New Caucasian Woman in Kavkazskaia Plennitsa and Qayinana."

Roberta L. Krueger, Burgess Professor of French, gave one of the two keynote addresses at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on Friday, May 8. Krueger's talk, titled "Fictions of Conduct in Medieval France," examined the dynamic and sometimes problematic intersection of didactic prose and narrative fiction in four moral treatises written for young women and men between 1372 and 1456.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, discussed Michael Steele's performance during his first 100 days as Republican National Committee Chairman in a Baltimore Sun article titled "For GOP's Steele, A Time To Fly Or Fall." "In fairness to Steele, I can't imagine a worse time to be chairman of the RNC. But he's only made the situation worse for himself," said Klinkner.

Eric Kuhn '09 has been named to the UWIRE 100 list, a select group of undergraduate and graduate students judged the top collegiate journalists in the country. This is the second year that Kuhn has been selected by UWIRE. Only seven other student journalists were chosen in both 2008 and 2009.

Professors of Anthropology Charlotte Beck and Tom Jones presented a paper titled "A Case of Extinction in Paleoindian Lithic Technology" at the 74th Society for American Archaeology Meeting in Atlanta on April 23. The paper is a continuation of Beck and Jones's research on the earliest colonists of North America and discusses the ultimate disappearance of a particular technology used initially by these early colonists.

A luncheon with Acting President Joe Urgo on Thursday, April 30, marks the final event in a busy year of Hamilton Alumni Leadership Training (HALT) events. Earlier this month, HALT held a week-long series of promotional events to educate the Hamilton campus about HALT and how graduating seniors can stay engaged with the College as alumni. Applications for membership on next year's HALT committee are due May 1.

The American College of Physicians (ACP) named Hamilton alumna Christine Laine '83, MD, MPH, FACP editor of its flagship journal, Annals of Internal Medicine last week. A former vice president and senior deputy editor of Annals, Laine is the youngest editor in the journal's history. She graduated summa cum laude from Hamilton with a double major in writing and biology.

Eight seniors presented their government senior honors theses at the 63rd Annual New York State Political Science Association Conference at John Jay College in New York City from April 24 – 25. The event drew 200 to 250 panelists, presenters and round table participants from around the country.

On Wednesday, April 22, Derek C. Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented "Firm and Employee Effects of an Enterprise Information System: Micro-econometric Evidence" with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen from the Hanken School of Economics (HSE) in Helsinki, Finland at the Helsinki Center of Economic Research at the University of Helsinki. Jones also presented "The Nature and Effects of Corporate Governance in Co-operatives" on the same day at HSE.