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Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller recently returned from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she participated in the "Bishkek Summer Institute on Teaching Islam in Eurasia" from June 24 to July 7 at the American University of Central Asia.

Career Center Director Kino Ruth was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article highlighting summer internships and the increasing demand by companies offering unpaid internships that students receive credit for their work.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald participated in this year’s “Flaherty,” a week-long seminar devoted to documentary and experimental filmmaking. The annual event, which was the 13th MacDonald has attended, was held at Vassar College from June 17 through June 24.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in an article in The Financial Times profiling Chen Deming, the official likely to become the next minister of China’s National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC).

A New York State historical marker commemorating the founding of Hamilton College by missionary Samuel Kirkland will be rededicated on the Hamilton campus on Sunday, July 2, as part of Historic Clinton Week.

Sylvia de Swaan, visiting instructor in art, has been awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in photography. de Swaan is one of 117 New York artists to receive a NYFA grant this year. More than 4,400 artists applied for the 2006 NYFA Fellowships in the following disciplines: architecture/environmental structures, choreography, fiction, music composition, painting, photography, playwriting/screenwriting and video. Fellows are selected by peer panels in each discipline. Eighteen photographers were among this year’s fellowship recipients.

Brian J. Glenn, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, presented a paper titled, "The Lessons and Legacies of State Old Age Pensions" at the biannual Policy History Conference at the University of Virginia.  The paper examines the remarkably successful campaign by the Fraternal Order of Eagles to bring non-contributory pensions to the elderly prior to the Social Security Act of 1935.  The conference also hosted two panels on Glenn's co-edited project on conservatives and American political development.

Derek C. Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics at Hamilton and a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics, recently published an article titled “The Determinants of Stock Option Compensation: Evidence from Finland” in the academic journal Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. His co-authors were Panu Kalmi and Mikko Makinen.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Brookings Institution non-resident fellow, participated in a panel discussion of the strategic relationships in Asia at the 34th Williamsburg Conference at Wye River. Titled "Asia 20/20: Focus on the Future," the conference also included meetings and addresses by prominent leaders in business, politics and the media. Li’s presentation was titled “China’s Future: A Paradox of Hope and Fear.”

The Emerson Gallery will host two photography exhibits this summer. The exhibitions will run from June 1 through Sept. 10, 2006. The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education, features 50 color photographs coupled with first-person narratives, providing accounts of the struggle, hard work and finally the celebration of growth and dignity experienced in the attainment of college degrees by low-income student parents across the nation. In addition to The Missing Story, the Emerson Gallery will present a special complimentary exhibition of ten photographs taken by Alexis Mann ’05, a recent Hamilton graduate and photography major.