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Eric Kuhn ’09 published an interview this month with White House Photographer and Special Assistant to the President Eric Draper in PBase Magazine. The Washington Examiner picked up on the Pbase article and reported on both Kuhn and this interview in its newspaper and on its Web site. He met Draper in the West Wing while participating in Hamilton’s Washington, D.C., program last semester. It took Kuhn two years to arrange for the interview, contacting Draper on a regular basis. Draper was able to schedule an interview on Kuhn’s last day in the D.C. program.

“Compounding Interest in Your Investment Committee,” an article written by Hamilton trustee and co-chair of the board’s investment committee Henry W. Bedford, II, ’76, was published in the July/August 2007 issue of Trusteeship magazine. Produced by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), Trusteeship reports trends, issues and practices in higher education to help board members and chief executives better understand their distinctive and complementary roles and to strengthen board performance. AGB is the only national association that serves the interests and needs of academic governing boards, boards of institutionally related foundations and campus CEOs and other senior-level campus administrators on issues related to higher education governance and leadership.

An article co-authored by Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students Philip A. Klinkner titled “Measuring the Difference between White Voting and Polling on Interracial Marriage” was published by the Cambridge University Press Online Journal on May 10. The article had previously been published in print in the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race in September 2006. Micah Altman, senior research scientist at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, was Klinkner’s co-author.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Andrew Nutting presented a paper "To the Slimmer Go the Spoils: Heterogeneous Responses to Bodyweight Incentives in Olympic Weightlifting Tournaments” at the Western Economic Association  82nd Annual Conference in Seattle on July 2. The paper has been accepted for publication by the Eastern Economic Journal.

A photograph by Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan was selected for “Made in NY 2007,” an annual juried exhibit that features New York state artists. The show, which opened on June 30, includes 84 contemporary works of art by 68 artists. Cornell University’s art department chair Buzz Spector and Michael A. Sickler, who has been a professor of art and art history at Syracuse University for 35 years, were the jurors. The exhibition at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn, is open through August 25.

Some of the world's most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers, and leaders are gathered at the third annual Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado from July 2 to July 8. Hamilton’s William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li, one of the featured festival speakers in the global dynamics track, is joined by more than 250 other speakers who include President Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, David Gergen, Walter Isaacson, General Colin Powell, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, Jim Lehrer and Karl Rove. Speakers are divided into four program tracks: global dynamics, arts and culture, American experience and media and community.

Hamilton's Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings finished first in the single male kayak division and sixth overall in the 2007 Yukon River Quest, the world's longest annual canoe and kayak race. Based on results posted on the official race Web site last updated today at 3:45 EDT on Saturday, June 30, Jillings reached Dawson City behind one tandem kayak and four voyageur canoes, each with six to eight rowers. He had never participated in a kayak race before clinching the single male kayak title.

More than 150 nationally elected college professors and administrators are gathering on Hamilton's campus for the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) 29th annual business meeting. The event, which began on June 20 and ends on June 24, brings together representatives in the sciences and social sciences who work to foster research participation as a central part of effective undergraduate education. There are a record-breaking number of attendees at this year's meeting.

“My job is to take students out into places that are beyond their normal bounds. If I'm going to do this, I should be doing it myself," explains Hamilton Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings about his decision to enter the ninth Yukon River Quest.  "The trips I take them on shouldn't be a stretch for me - that would be irresponsible. So I chose to go to the Yukon to feel the same 'stretch' that my students do, only for me, the stretch is necessarily longer,” The race is the longest annual canoe and kayak race in the world.

Hamilton’s Emerson Gallery will host two exhibitions this summer selected from the permanent collection. Opening Thursday, June 21, and continuing through Sunday, September 9, “Photographs by Silvia Saunders” and “The Beinecke Collection – Prints, Watercolors and Drawings of the Lesser Antilles” will be on display.