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Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell is spending several months as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where she is pursuing research for her book project, "Scripting the Medieval Scottish Nation: Poets, Chroniclers, and the Authority of History." The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was established in 1969 to promote interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Michael Harwick '11 has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellow Scholarship for his achievement in writing. He was one of 17 winners from across the country selected for the scholarship program sponsored by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development in Nevada. Harwick was honored for his writing portfolio titled "Highways: The Road as Existence." The portfolio included excerpts from Harwick's novel The Sideshow Vision as well as some of his poetry.

Responding to a Christian Science Monitor article titled "Climate warming skeptics: Is the research too political?" Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo penned a letter to the editor that appears on the publication's news site today. The original article addressed those who still doubted the findings of the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The panel reported that most of the increase in temperatures seen in the last 50 years is due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. In response Cannavo wrote, "Rather than acknowledge the torrent of evidence establishing global warming and humanity's role in it, they [skeptics] have resorted to conspiracy theories, questionable science, and reliance on marginal uncertainties in climate science.

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Jenn Holderied-Webb '98 has been appointed to the board of advisors of EcoRooms & EcoSuites, an online directory of environmentally responsible hotels, motels, inns and B&Bs. An article in Hotel & Motel Management (10/05/07) noted Holderied-Webb's appointment, referenced her "outstanding qualifications" and praised her role in managing the Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, located in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, is one of four national experts who have been selected to present a key address at the first National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports, to take place in January in Nashville. Simon's topic is "Does Athletics Undermine Academics?" The colloquium hopes to address what officials say is a dearth of quality study related to sport in the context of higher education.  

In "Positioning for Power at China's Communist Congress" published by BusinessWeek on Oct. 9, Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, is quoted extensively on his views concerning the future leadership of China. "No one in the party has the clout to anoint a successor to Chinese leader Hu Jintao," says Li. In discussing the possible four front-runners who could be appointed to the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) in October with a view to taking over the reins in 2012, he noted that they all possess leadership experience, intellectual caliber and - unlike the existing Politburo members - youth.

The Gilded Bicycles are back! Thanks to the hard work of some mechanically-inclined students, the fleet of community bicycles that first appeared on campus last year is back and in use. According to Charlie Palanza '10, who has shepherded the repair and usage of the bicycles this semester, they are for the use of Hamilton community members. The idea is that anyone who sees an unoccupied bicycle may use it to get to where he or she wants to go…on campus, that is. Then the rider parks it for the next person to use.

Mihaela Petrescu, visiting assistant professor of German, organized the panel “From Femme Fragile to Vamp: Cultural Representations of Women during the Weimar Republic” at the 31st annual German Studies Association, held in San Diego on Oct. 4-7. Petrescu also presented a paper titled  “A Vamp's Favorite Pastime”  in which she scrutinizes the role of the Charleston in Alexander Corda's forgotten dance melodrama "Madame wuenscht keine Kinder” (Madam does not want any children, 1927).

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck gave an invited lecture titled “Magic and Mysticism in Morisco Manuscripts” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She also attended the Mid-America Conference of Hispanic Literatures at the same university where she gave a paper titled “Marvelous Fruit: Magic, Maryand the Libros plúmbeos.”