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In an article titled “Grade inflation traced to Vietnam War” in Boulder, Colorado’s Daily Camera, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was quoted on what he views as a possible “tenuous connection” between grade inflation to the Vietnam War.

Hamilton staff and faculty from a number of offices met with Adeleri Onisegun, director of the psychology program at Paine College, for a workshop titled "Overcoming Barriers to Inclusiveness: From Theory to Practice" on June 20. Onisegun led 20 participants from the dean's office, the admission office, several additional administrative offices and a dozen academic departments in a discussion of ways in which Hamilton can most effectively attract and retain faculty and students from underrepresented groups.

Associate Professors of Economics Ann Owen and Steve Wu published "Is trade good for your health?" in the Review of International Economics. The article investigates the link between increased openness to international trade and health outcomes such as life expectancy and infant mortality.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald's "Testing Your Patience: An Interview with James Benning" has been published in the September issue of Artforum. MacDonald briefly reviews Benning's long career, then talks with Benning about several recent films including 13 Lakes (2004), which Benning presented during last spring’s F.I.L.M. Series at Hamilton; Ten Skies (2004), RR (as in "railroad," 2007) and casting a glance (2007), Benning's newest film, about Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty.

In "The Eighteenth Century: An Entire Other World," Professor of French John C. O'Neal recounts his experience in the field of eighteenth-century studies research, tracing the threads that have tied together his scholarship over the past three decades. Solicited by the editor of the volume, Carol Blum, this article appears in Etre dix-huitiémiste II, published by the Centre International d'Etude du XVIII Siècle in Ferney-Voltaire, France in 2007.

This summer, art history major Xin Wang ’09 secured an internship at one of the most prestigious museums in the country. Wang worked in the newly-established Media Department of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as an archivist and art previewer; during her summer, she gained a huge amount of experience in the field and business of modern art.

Ryan Lindsay Bartz (’07), Romina Memoli (’09),and Melanie Leeds (’08) spent six weeks in the United Kingdom and worked at the largest fringe festival in the world this summer, thanks to Hamilton’s Theater department. The students spent two weeks at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff training for the fringe by building a replica of the venue and running a few shows before heading up to Scotland. In Edinburgh they worked at Venue 13 where they were the running crew, box office managers, and assistant venue managers.

In their newly released book Europe at Bay, Alan Cafruny, Hamilton’s Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, and J. Magnus Ryder, professor of international relations at Oxford Brookes University, contend that “Absent the fundamental social and political changes that might engender a positive and coherent regional agency, Europe appears condemned to continuing dependency on the United States’ precarious imperium.”

Barbie Zelizer knows that war is not a happy topic. On August 30, the former journalist thanked students for coming out to the Science Center during the first week of classes to think about heavy issues. Zelizer hoped that thinking about images of war would inspire students beyond her talk.

Professor of Communication Catherine W. Phelan has completed an entry on "museum as communication" for the International Encyclopedia of Communication. The Encyclopedia is a joint project of Blackwell Publishing and the International Communication Association and its content draws on the expertise of scholars worldwide. The Encyclopedia will give more space to areas related to public and mediated communication but include other communication forms and phenomena as well, since they represent basic elements of the human communication processes. The 10 volumes are scheduled to be published in December 2007.