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Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received yet another glowing review, this time from The Atlantic in its March issue. The reviewer described the book as a "comprehensive account, a vacuum-filling history (the first of its kind in five-plus decades) and an enormously engaging addition to the climbing-lit canon."

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann wrote an article that appeared in the January issue of Security Studies, a leading international relations theory and security journal. The article "Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Classical Realist Statecraft and Economic Exchange in U.S. Interwar Strategy," sheds new and original light on our entry into WWII and the origins of Japanese oil dependency on the United States.

Of the nearly 20 members of the scientific party on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel Knorr this past January and February, three were Hamilton alumni. Boston University Professor of Earth Sciences Rick Murray '85, Heather Schrum '05 and Ashley Hatfield '05 joined an international research team studying the distribution of microbial life beneath the seafloor on a research cruise to the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Prints created by Hamilton professors Bruce Muirhead and William Salzillo and alumnus Jake Muirhead '86 have been selected for the 22nd Parkside National Small Print Exhibition at the University of Wisconsin – Parkside. Jake Muirhead, who has two etchings in the show, was awarded a purchase prize for one titled "Daybreak."

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, was referenced in a Feb. 10 Baltimore Sun article, "Steele's rise shows how Obama has altered landscape." The article discussed Michael Steele's recent election as Republican National Committee chairman and how President Obama has fundamentally changed U.S. electoral politics in 2008 by building two new multiracial coalitions.

William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li, who has recently been promoted to Director of Research at the Brookings Institution's China Center, spoke at Yale University Law School's China Law Center on Tuesday, Feb. 10.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Mark A. Oakes has published an article, "Implicit and Explicit Self-esteem: Measure for Measure," in the latest volume of Social Cognition (Vol. 26, 2008). In the article, Oakes and his two co-authors (Jonathon Brown from the University of Washington and Huajian Cai from Sun Yat-Sen University in China) presented findings from their analysis of implicit and explicit measurements of self esteem.

Chaise LaDousa gave a paper, "Constriction of the Mother Tongue: School and Language Ideology in Northern India," at a conference hosted by the International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication. The conference took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in December. Conference participants hailed from Abu Dhabi, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Reunion, Russia and South Africa.

The Corporation for National and Community Service named Hamilton as one of the colleges included on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America's communities. Launched in 2006, the Community Service Honor Roll is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement.

Eric Kuhn '09 published a story on Huffington Post titled "The 2008 Google Docs Campaign." In the article, he described how "Google Docs" - best described as a free Microsoft Office for the web - revolutionized the grassroots movement in political organizations.