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Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen participated in the 2nd annual Legatum Prosperity Symposium at Brocket Hall in London June 26-28. The symposium, sponsored by the Legatum Institute, encourages interdisciplinary discussion among economists, sociologists, political scientists and historians about the nature and causes of prosperity. Owen participated in a session that focused on trust in markets and the financial crisis.

Hamilton College men's basketball 1,000-point scorer Nick Jones '07 was photographed and appeared in a feature story posted on ESPN.com June 18 about the Obama administration's impact on the sport.

Hamilton College men's basketball 1,000-point scorer Nick Jones '07 was photographed and appeared in a feature story about the impact the Barack Obama administration has made on the sport, and was posted on ESPN.com on June 18.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, wrote the introduction to Jazz Studies (2009, The Argian Press). The publisher is David Hayes '81. The book is a collection of photos of jazz musicians by Joann Krivin. In the introduction, Rowe refers to several of the featured musicians who received honorary degrees from Hamilton, including Milt Hinton, Joe Wilder, Joe Williams, Clark Terry and Kenny Davern.

Jason McGavin '12 and Matthew Baxter '11 understand that a peptide's structure can say a lot about how it functions in the body. This summer, they are studying two versions of the peptide Piscidin – Piscidin 1 and Piscidin 3. They will work alongside Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten, whose previous work in this field has illustrated that there is a distinct difference between them. 

Three Hamilton College faculty members will be promoted to the rank of professor, effective July 1. Associate professors Gordon Jones, physics; Craig Latrell, theatre; and Ann Owen, economics, will receive the title of professor.

In mid-sentence, Professor of Biology Ernest Williams interrupted his thought to comment on a bird that caught his eye: "Oh, there's a yellow warbler – male, yellowy, with chestnut stripe on the breast," he observed. Seeing Williams in his element is like reading an interactive encyclopedia – Williams talks animatedly about nature and the creatures that inhabit it, such as painted turtles, blue herons and Canada geese. He is conducting what is called a "BioBlitz" this summer with Carly Andrascik '11, an environmental studies major.

Deborah Barany '11 and Anthony Sali '10 describe motor control in a way that would remind a listener of flip-book animation. An action consists of smaller, partial movements, that when assembled together and in the right fashion, trigger the complete maneuver. Similarly, flip books rely on persistence of vision to create the illusion of fluid motion, when in reality, they are just discontinuous images stapled together.

Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo contributed an op-ed, "Ignorance a Weapon in Climate Debate," to the Syracuse Post-Standard (6/21/09). Cannavo writes "Conservatives have long professed skepticism about the idea of anthropogenic climate change, despite decades of research and reams of studies and warnings from the world's leading climatologists. Such skepticism becomes even less credible when those articulating it lack even a grade-school understanding of the science."

De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, was invited to give a talk (co-authored with Hong Gang Jin) titled "Evaluation and Measurement of Participation and Interactivity in Participatory Web Tools" at ICICE 2009, the 6th International Conference on Internet Chinese Education, Taipei, Taiwan, June 19-21. President of Republic of China Yingjiu Ma delivered the welcome speech at the opening ceremony of the conference, which welcomed more than 500 professionals.