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"The Flower in the Gun Barrel," an essay written by Professor of History Maurice Isserman was featured on PBS' BILL MOYERS JOURNAL (11/2/07). The piece was originally published last month in The Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle Review. Isserman's essay recounts his experience as a participant in the march and analyzes the event's importance in the evolution of the Vietnam anti-war movement. The program producers highlighted the essay along with photographs provided by Isserman.

Hamilton College's $700 million endowment and the alumni investment team that contributes to its success were featured in a New York Times article "How Smaller College Endowments Still Reap Big Returns" (11/04/07). The article noted that while it is sometimes difficult for smaller college endowments to match the returns of Ivies like Harvard and Yale, Hamilton with its $700 million endowment returned 21.1 percent last year. Henry Bedford '76, Richard Bernstein '80, David Solomon '84 and Robert Morris '76 were acknowledged in the article as providing "alumni expertise" to Hamilton's endowment. Bedford is portfolio manager at Moore Capital Management, Bernstein is chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, Solomon is co-head of investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Morris is founder of Olympus Partners, a private equity firm.

Philip Pearle, professor of physics emeritus, was interviewed for a New Scientist feature article "Taking the spookiness out of quantum theory" (11/3/07). In an article that questions whether quantum theory is "the final theory," Pearle comments on physicist Stephen Adler's "emergent quantum theory" – an idea that builds quantum physics from the bottom up, starting from a hypothetical lower level that obeys classical physics. "This work is truly ingenious," Pearle said in the article. "Is it the long-sought formulation that makes quantum, theory understandable? I'd say a definite maybe."

Martha Mockus, the Jane Watson Irwin Chair and visiting assistant professor of women's studies, published an article titled "MeShell Ndegéocello: Musical Articulations of Black Feminism" in the new interdisciplinary anthology Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom, edited by Christa Acampora and Angela Cotten (SUNY Press, 2007).

Gillian Zucker '90 was featured in a Dallas Morning News article "The women of NASCAR: Females making inroads in sport dominated by men" (11/4/07). Zucker, president of California Speedway since 2005, said in the article that she decided she wanted to run a sports franchise while working as a non-paid intern for a minor league hockey team in Utica when she was a student at Hamilton.

Visiting Professor of English Scott MacDonald, currently on leave from Hamilton and teaching with the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard, presented two "Cinema 16" shows at the Harvard Film Archive in September.

The week of November 5-11 is National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week. Ryan Seewald '10 is a member of Hamilton's Emergency Medical Services team and here offers observations about his first three months on the job. We are proud to recognize all 22 members of HCEMS.

William LeoGrande, dean of the School of Public Affairs at American University, will discuss the history of secret negotiations between the United States and Cuba toward normalizing diplomatic relations on Monday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His remarks will be based on new evidence collected via release of previously classified U.S. government documents. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Megachurch and the Mainline: Cultural Innovation, Change, and Conflict in Mainline Protestant Congregations, a book written by Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson, was awarded the 2007 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the organization's annual meeting in Tampa.

Hamilton College Performing Arts, as part of the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership with fellow members Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) and the Central New York Community Arts Council's Arts in Education Institute, will present Battleworks Dance Company in a premiere of "Cadances" on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.