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Hamilton will host the 2008 Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), from Monday, July 14, through Thursday, July 17. IAFEP Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and debate of current research and scholarship on the economics of participation. Associate Professor of Economics Jeff Pliskin is the conference chair.

"Doing the Right Thing – and Thriving," an article in the July 3 edition of InsideHigherEd.com, highlighted Hamilton's decision to eliminate merit aid and the subsequent rise in traditional measurements of academic quality in the incoming Hamilton class. In the article, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer discussed the fact that the college was doing a better job of attracting the kinds of applicants it wanted without merit aid offers.

Run for the Fallen, the 4,113-mile cross-country relay run created by Hamilton alumnus Jon Bellona '03, is featured in the July 3 issue of USA Today in an article titled "Runners mark miles for fallen troops." Bellona organized the run in honor of Michael Cleary '03, his Hamilton roommate who was killed in Iraq, and all of the soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Hamilton rising senior Eric Kuhn '09, who spent the academic year at the London School of Economics, has recently written several articles for The Huffington Post. In his latest, "Political-Ish Summer Reads," Kuhn selected six top political fiction books and interviewed the authors, who range from the former executive director of the Christian Coalition to the author of the new Indiana Jones novel.

Seven prints by photographer Sylvia de Swaan, who is working with Gregory Huffaker '09 on an Emerson grant this summer, have been purchased by Colgate University's Picker Gallery for their permanent collection. The photographs are part of de Swaan's "Return" series. The curator is Joachim Homann.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Selcuk Eren presented a paper titled "How Well Do Individuals Predict the Selling Prices of their Homes?" in June at the 2008 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society hosted by the David A. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Sharon Werning Rivera was quoted in an April article in Russian Profile on the future of U.S.-Russian relations under Russia's newly elected president Dmitry Medvedev. Titled "Fighting for Equality," the article surveyed the views of numerous American specialists on Russian politics.

Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, will present "The Polar Regions: Climate of Extremes on a Changing Planet," Monday, June 23, at 6 p.m. at the Uptown Theater in Utica. Domack's presentation is the first of three free events scheduled to raise environmental awareness in the Mohawk Valley.

Europe at Bay: In the Shadow of U.S. Hegemony, co-authored by Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny (with Magnus Ryner of Oxford University), has been shortlisted for the annual book prize of the International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association. The winner of the Award will be announced in December 2008. The IPEG Book Prize seeks to identify the best book published in political economy on an annual basis.

"Weekend America," a nationally syndicated radio show produced and distributed by American Public Media via NPR, will feature an interview with Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, on the weekend of June 21. Part of an ongoing series titled "This Weekend in 1968," the interview includes Isserman's account of how on the night of his high school graduation in June 1968, he boarded a train for Washington, D.C. and joined a rally in support of the Poor People's Campaign. America Public Media is the nation's second-largest producer and distributor of public radio programs.