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Following Monday’s CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debate, CBS News summer intern and rising junior Eric Kuhn wrote an article about his observations of the novel event. The article was posted on CBS’ “Couric & Co.” blog as well as on the CBS News home page. "Couric & Co." is a Web log whose principle contributors are CBS News producers and correspondents from around the world that, according to the site, focuses on “things large and small, from the meaningful to the amusing.”

Associate Professor of German Edith Toegel participated in an international conference, "The New Europe at the Crossroads" at York St. John University, England in July. Her paper, "'Heimat' Redefined: Women and Multiculturalism in Barbara Frischmuth's novels" discussed the writer's concern for racial tensions in her homeland, Austria, in particular with regard to the large number of Turkish immigrants since 1989.

Mollusks are members of the large and diverse phylum Mullusca, which includes a variety of familiar animals like snails, clams, squid, and octopi. Scaphopods are a class of marine mollusks with a tubular and generally curved shell having openings at both ends. Since their shell resembles an elephant’s tusk, they are more commonly referred to as "tusk shells." Many scaphopod species inhabit the deep waters off the West and Alaskan coasts. This summer, Matt Sharbaugh '08 (Simsbury, Conn.), a biology major, is working with Professor of Biology Patrick Reynolds to study how the latitude and ocean depth at which scaphopods live affects their diversity and distribution.

The Hamilton College Muslim America Poll, conducted in 2002 by Hamilton Sociology Professor Dennis Gilbert and his students, was cited in a Newsweek article, "Islam in America: A Special Report," (July 30, 2007). The Poll examined Muslim attitudes toward the U.S. war on terrorism and related international issues and documented anti-Muslim discrimination and harassment in the United States after September 11.

Prints by three artists associated with Hamilton College, Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead '86, and Dan Wittenberg '07, have been selected for the juried Washington Printmakers National Small Works 2007 Exhibition. Of the nearly 500 images submitted, juror Greg Jecmen, associate curator of old prints at the National Gallery of Art, selected 27 works. The exhibition runs from July 31 to August 26.

Melissa Kong '08 reviewed the book, College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World, by Lindsey Pollak for TIME staff writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's blog "Work in Progress." Kong is an intern at TIME for Kids and impressed Cullen with her initiative when they met last year. Cullen asked Kong to review the book from the perspective of the target reader.

Hamilton employees and students volunteered their time on July 20 to clean up Roger's Glen.  More than 20 volunteers worked around the pond above Loop Road to the Menotti/Rogers property line near Route 233. They cleaned up debris from the construction of the Science Center, the culvert replacement on Campus Road, and the College landfill.

An opinion piece written by Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory Edward Walker ’62, appeared on Friday, July 20, in The Providence Journal (R.I.). Titled “A war with Iran would be madness,” Walker’s op-ed suggested that the recent leaks from the White House intimating a possible major military strike against Iran are really about two combatants posturing for different audiences — Iranian President Ahmedinijad for support in Iran and the Middle East and Vice President Cheney for Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Kahmeni. Walker, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt under previous administrations, warns that the U.S. should not sacrifice any hope of stabilizing the region by launching an ill-advised strike against Iran.

There are plenty of students on the Hill in the summer doing research or work. Most of them are Hamilton students, but sometimes we get visitors such as Alyona Blokhina, a student from Russia spending her summer in Clinton to work with Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, is co-author of an article "Monetary Union and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of Europe's Crisis" with Magnus Ryner. It was published in New Political Economy 12, 2 (June, 2007).