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Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, contributed an essay, "Place of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South Africa: Black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships," in William Logan & Keir Reeves (eds.), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' (London: Routledge, 2009).

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.

Students in the Program in Washington, D.C., visited Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 11. After observing the solemn ceremony of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown, students visited other significant sites, including the home of Robert E. Lee, the USS Maine memorial, and the gravesites of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

The Recycling Task Force replaced the waste baskets in Spencer House on Feb. 13, making it the first Hamilton building that "Canned the Can."  Can the Can is a waste reduction program where office waste is targeted for recycling by reducing the waste basket or eliminating it from the office work station. Ninety-five percent of office waste is white paper, which should be recycled, and often a large waste basket is unnecessary.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature Emeritus, spoke on James Joyce at the Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Feb. 3. Attended by an audience of more than 200, the lecture was delivered on behalf of the scholarship program of PEN International.

Associate Director and Curator of the Emerson Gallery Susanna White gave a gallery talk on Thursday, Feb. 12, as part of an ongoing series discussing the three current exhibitions on view there.

As Dr. Robert Spiegelman put it, New Yorkers (and, to a larger extent, Americans in general) are afflicted with "NDD," or "Nature Deficit Disorder." We have grown up in a society that does not herald meaningful interchange with nature, Spiegelman explained, and as such we live without any sort of reverence for our planet. It certainly seems that this disease needs a cure. Treatment begins with awareness. Spiegelman, a sociologist and multimedia artist, spoke at Hamilton on Feb. 16 as part of the New York Council on the Humanities lecture series.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has named Hamilton graduate John Young '71 to a three-year term ending on September 30, 2011.  Young, currently the managing director at Samuel A. Ramirez & Co. in New York, brings with him a intimate understanding of municipal securities to the MSRB.

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."

Scholarly work in instructional technology designed by Barb Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, and Heather Macdonald of the College of William and Mary, has been peer-reviewed and published in Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).