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Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey recently received a grant award from Microsoft Corporation's research division for the development of a new computer security course titled Secrets, Lies, and Digital Threats. The course will provide background information on computer security issues for future leaders, including those who will shape public technology policy, to understand the nature of security threats and how they can be expected to evolve in the future.

Hamilton has exceeded its $175 million capital campaign goal six months before the fundraising effort is scheduled to conclude. "Excelsior: The Campaign for Hamilton" reached this goal in the last week of December 2007. The campaign will continue through its planned close on June 30.

The Emerson Gallery hosted a gallery conversation with artist and Haverford College professor William E. Williams '73 and the curatorial team of Uncovering the Past to Freedom, one of the gallery's three current exhibitions on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The exhibition's curatorial team included Katerina Adair '10, Ilana Carlin '09, Sophia Franck '08, Associate Professor of Art History Deborah Pokinski and Associate Director and Curator Susanna White.

On the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) published an opinion piece titled "Iraq of '08 eerily like Vietnam of '68" written by Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Albany Professor of English Thomas Bass. As the title suggests, Isserman and Bass compare the official reports on the status of the war in Vietnam in 1968 to the war in Iraq in 2008 and suggest that the situation in Iraq is far less stable than the administration would have the nation believe.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "Fed's tough call: how far to cut interest rates" on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The article discussed the choices faced by the Fed in determining what might stimulate the economy.

Hamilton has received a four-year grant totaling $800,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create five postdoctoral fellowship positions in the arts and humanities.

A one-hour documentary titled "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism" and produced locally by WCNY will be shown for the first time on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 9 p.m. Included in the documentary footage are shots of the recent Emerson Gallery exhibition "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist" as well as images of the Root Glen and the Root homestead.

Eric Kuhn '09 was interviewed for and featured in an Associated Press article titled "Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars" released on Tuesday, Jan. 22. He was subsequently contacted by KPCC public radio in Pasadena, California, to participate in a live half-hour interview on the topic. He was joined on air with Washington Post technology writer Mike Musgrove on Friday, Jan. 25.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has penned an examination of several memoirs written by members of the 1960s radical campus groups, the Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).  "Weather Reports" appears in the Feb. 11 issue of The Nation and was posted on the publication's Web site on Jan. 24,

The Chronicle of Higher Education, in its Jan. 25 issue, featured an article,"In One Writing Course, Freshmen Take After Lewis and Clark," about Hamilton's "Adventure Writing" course taught by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman last semester.