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Associate Professor of Art History Stephen Goldberg was a speaker at Asian Art Study Day in Colgate University's Picker Art Gallery with Colgate professors Padma Kaimal and Robert Hung-Ngai Ho on Saturday, April 12.

Haeng-ja Chung, assistant professor of anthropology, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta on April 3-6. She delivered a paper titled "Neoliberalism and its Economic Impact in Japan: Mizushóbai and Fúzoku Industries." She discussed how the adult entertainment industry was transforming along with the larger economic restructuring in Japan where neoliberalism became pervasive. Chung argued that the adult entertainment industry was expanding and estimated to have 42 billion dollars' impact per year on the Japanese economy.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will exhibit sculpture in her solo exhibition "The Sweetest Battle" at The Red House in Syracuse.  A reception will be held on Thursday, April 17, from 5 - 8 p.m. and Murtaugh will give an artist talk at 7 p.m. in the gallery. This exhibition explores the sport of boxing as a metaphor for the act of interpreting art. Notions of temptation and desire are elicited by colorful candy like sculptures that challenge the viewer to imagine the potential of our senses. 

Claire Goldstein '94 and an alumna of the Hamilton College Junior Year in France, will give a lecture titled "Eclipsed by the Sun King: Vaux, Versailles and the Creation of Classical France" on Thursday, April 17, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center, room G041.

Jennifer Kleindienst '09 has been awarded a Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1992 to honor Congressman Morris Udall and his legacy of public service. The Udall Foundation furthers Udall's legacy by awarding scholarships of $5,000 to undergraduates who study the environment and related fields. Approximately 75 scholarships are awarded annually. 

Marco Allodi, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton College, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Germany. His proposed project, to be conducted at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Heinreich-Heine University in Dusseldorf with Professor Hans Betterman, will research the excited triplet state of cartenoids. Cartenoids play a major role in the photosynthetic pathway, but their triplet states are difficult to study because precise forms of spectroscopy must be employed. Intracavity absorption spectroscopy will be used to investigate triplet states in zeaxanthin, violaxanthin and fucozxanthin.

Hamilton students are having a successful year as recipients of national fellowships and scholarships. Most recently Marco Allodi '08 has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct science research in Germany at the Heinrich-Heine Universitat in Dusseldorf with Professor Hans Bettermann.

Jennifer Earl, associate professor of sociology and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presented her studies of online activism on April 15 at Hamilton. Earl suggested that online activism reflects significant changes in the structure and practice of activism, and is worthy of further scholarly attention. 

Students in "Introduction to Comparative Politics" class will conduct a public debate, part of a fictitious political campaign staged in the imagined country of West Europa, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in the Kennedy Science Auditorium. This is the fourth year that Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera has organized this debate and competition.

Victoria Schacht '08, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia, where she will teach English.