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A feature article written by Casey Wick, assistant director of custodial services, appears in the November/December issue of Facilities Manager magazine titled "From Here to There: Effectively Managing Organization Change." APPA, an organization of educational facilities professionals that, according to its Web site, "promotes excellence in all phases of educational facilities management, including administration, planning, design, construction, energy/utilities, maintenance, and operations" is the magazine publisher.

Levitt Center Associate Director of Community Research Judith Owens-Manley was the keynote speaker at the Civic Engagement Conference at St. Lawrence University on Wednesday, Dec. 10. Owen's remarks, titled "Civic Engagement: Connecting College and Community," were delivered to faculty, administrators, students and community partners at this conference sponsored by the university's Center for Civic Engagement.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover was invited to attend and present at a conference held Dec. 6-7 at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. The conference convened a group of economists to present and discuss their work on assessing productivity levels, dispersions and growth in different Latin American countries. The work Conover presented used firm level data to assess productivity levels in Colombia.

Robert Morris '76, founder of private equity firm Olympus Partners and member of the Hamilton Investment Committee, was profiled in The Deal Newsweekly in its Dec. 1 issue. The publication is an "award-winning business and financial newsweekly offering insightful coverage of the business transactions that fuel corporate growth," according to the magazine's Web site. "Power of Regeneration" focused on Morris' philanthropic projects and specifically his work with the Polio Foundation.

Science Magazine published a study titled "Multi-University Research Teams: Shifting Impact, Geography, and Stratification in Science" in its Nov. 21 issue that included Hamilton in an analysis of research trends in higher education. Hamilton was ranked 15th in a group of 662 colleges and universities in citations per faculty member and 24th in citations per paper in science and engineering.

Senior Eric Kuhn interviewed Ron Alsop, author of the recently published The Trophy Kids Grow Up, for a Dec. 2 article titled "Trophy Kids in the Workplace" in the Huffington Post. Alsop, a freelance journalist and consultant and former Wall Street Journal editor, discussed this generation's unprecedented entitlement, demand for a work-life balance, optimism and parental involvement with Kuhn.

Scott MacDonald made four presentations in the Bay Area during the week of Nov. 17 in conjunction with his new book Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times. He lectured on Canyon Cinema and then presented films by filmmakers crucial to the 50-year-old Bay Area institution on Friday and Saturday evenings at Canyon Cinema's screening room in San Francisco, on Sunday evening at the San Francisco Cinematheque and on Tuesday evening at the Pacific Film Archive at the University of California at Berkeley.

Hamilton employee contributions to the Community Outreach Campaign totaled $50,647, breaking previous employee giving records and surpassing the $50,000 goal. Contributions to the United Way topped $5,000, and Greater Utica Community Food Bank gifts exceeded $11,000. Last year's campaign raised $45,342, and the 2006-2005 campaign raised $34,913.

Senior Lachlan Markay wrote an opinion piece, "Taxation as Vandalism," that will appear in the January/February issue of the Foundation for Economic Education's The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. The article currently appears on the organization's Web site.

Frank Sciacca, associate professor of Russian, has written an article titled "Hamilton College Grows a Historical Cultural Revolution" that appears in the fall 2008 issue of The Snail, a slow Food USA magazine. The article described some of Hamilton's sustainability initiatives including the Community Farm Garden and the 1812 Garden.