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Associate Professor of Government Gary Wyckoff has written a book titled Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect, published in May by Urban Institute Press. Wyckoff directs Hamilton's Public Policy Program.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper titled "After the revolution: Re-interpreting women on the Greek pots in Havana," with her colleague Sue Blundell (Open University), at the Institute of Classical Studies in London on June 3. The paper presented new metatheoretical approaches to the study of the iconography of women on Attic vases focusing on the interpretation of scenes of courtship or prostitution.

Hamilton College will welcome back nearly 1,000 alumni and their guests when it hosts its annual Reunion Weekend, this year on Thursday-Sunday, June 4-7. A full schedule of events will keep everyone busy through a weekend that promises sunshine and comfortable temperatures!

It is special when one can enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience while simultaneously supporting a worthy cause. For a three-week period, members of the Hamilton community will be offered that chance. Beginning on June 3, the Hamilton New York City Scholarship Fund Auction on charitybuzz.com will be accessible for online bids on many unique opportunities.

Edward S. Walker, Jr., '62, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, and Hamilton's Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, wrote an opinion piece, titled "Obama in Cairo, An Opportunity to Restore Faith," for the Common Ground News Service. The op-ed was picked up by Middle East Online.

Matthew Eichenfield '09 presented at the "Barcamp San Diego," a technology conference held at Intuit's San Diego Campus on May 30-31. His presentation was titled "Analyzing Artifacts: What Computers Can Tell Us About Archaeology" and was the culmination of his year-long independent study project with Nathan Goodale, assistant professor of anthropology.

Kamila Shamsie '94 was featured in a story about emerging Pakistani writers on NPR (5/29/09). Shamsie's most recent book – her fifth novel – is Burnt Shadows, which has won rave reviews in Britain and elsewhere. The NPR story noted that there's "plenty to cheer about in Paksistan's burgeoning literary scene." Shamsie said "There are a number of us being read and it's creating a sense (for young Pakistanis) that writing is viable and something that can be done."

Nicole L. Snyder, assistant professor of chemistry, and her collaborators at the University of South Florida published a paper titled "Asymmetric Co(II)-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation with Succinimidyl Diazoacetate: General Synthesis of Chiral Cyclopropyl Carboxamides" in the most recent edition of Organic Letters (Org. Lett. 2009, 11 (11), 2273–2276).

Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, and Hamilton students Natalie Elking '12 (geoscience) and Izzy Cannell '11, (environmental studies) are spending part of the summer in South America to fact-find issues related to energy development in Chilean Patagonia.

Associate Professors of Mathematics Debra Boutin and Sally Cockburn presented their joint work in a pair of talks at the Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference at the University of Montreal in May.