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Eric Kuhn '09 included portions of his interview with former New York City mayor Ed Koch in an article, "Koch on Maddoff: 5 Horses on each limb. Yell giddy-up.," appearing on Huffington Post on March 26. Koch addressed several topics related to Kuhn's senior thesis, specifically corruption and oversight.

Scott MacDonald's interview with Austrian filmmaker, installation artist and architect Gustav Deutsch has just been published in a book titled Gustav Deutsch and edited by Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg and Michael Loebenstein. Deutsch has added new dimensions to what is called "recycled cinema" or "found-footage film," that is, films made from other films.

Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, spoke on the history of mountaineering on March 27 at Montana State University. The co-author of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, Isserman was invited to speak by the university's department of history and philosophy.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Eglute Trinkauske spoke as an invited lecturer for the Religion and the Natural Environment class at Syracuse University on March 26. She presented "Seeing the Swarming Dead: of Mushrooms, Trees, and Bees," a talk focused on the continuation of indigenous tradition in Lithuania.

Employing a relatively new media vehicle called blogtalkradio, senior Eric Kuhn has published a Huffington Post article, "Books About the Economy Hit the Shelves," that offers a summary of and links to interviews with five writers of recently published books focused on the economy. Kuhn interviewed each author on his radio program, Kuhn & Company, originally launched on WHCL and accessible now on blogtalkradio.com.

Channing Richardson, professor of international affairs emeritus, died on March 22. A member of the faculty for 31 years, Channing received his bachelor's degree from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Upon arriving at Hamilton in 1952, he taught courses in international affairs, African politics, American foreign policy and international law, and the African novel.

Richard Seager, the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, was interviewed for an article in the Austin American-Statesman that examined the growth in Buddhism in the United States. In "American Lama Puts his Twist on Buddhism" published on March 23, Seager said that "the need to reinterpret for and in the West is seen increasingly to be the wise option."

Following the Federal Reserve's most recent announcement, reporters from National Public Radio, Dow Jones Newswire and Voice of America asked Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen for her analysis of the Fed's decisions.

Eleven Hamilton students traveled to the nation's national media hub, New York City, to attend a publications conference that included workshops on writing, design and editing among many other topics. Guest speakers and presenters included well known journalists.

Professor of Economics Erol Balkan and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Henry Rutz have co-authored "Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul," published in January. Focusing on the families of Istanbul's new middle class, the authors address questions about the social construction of middle-class reality in the context of the rapid changes that have come about through recent economic growth in global markets and the global diffusion of information technology.