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Hamilton has had a number of fellowship or research students abroad this summer, in locations from Japan to Iceland. Riada Asimovic ’07 (Sarajevo, Bosnia/Hercegovina) is one of these globetrotting researchers. Funded by a Levitt Fellowship, Asimovic spent her summer in the Balkans working on a study titled, “The Future Status of Kosovo: Will the International Community be able to find a Consensus between Albanian Aspirations for Independent and Serbian Determination to Guard Kosovo and its Sovereignty?”

As classes and activities gear up on the Hill in Clinton, the fall 2006 semester of the Hamilton in New York City program has also kicked off. Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, is director of the fall program, whose theme is "Health and Health Care in a Global Society." Dr. Susan Morgan will teach a class on global epidemics, and Professor Chambliss will teach the sociology of health care.

Four members of the Hamilton College faculty have been promoted to the rank of professor. Associate Professor of Chemistry Timothy Elgren, Associate Professor of French Martine Guyot-Bender, Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager and Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures De Bao Xu were promoted, effective July 1.

Hamilton College opened its 195th year with the traditional convocation ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 27, in Wellin Hall. Members of the administration welcomed students and new faculty, and student prizes were awarded.

Joseph Urgo, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Hamilton College, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2006-2007 academic year, including seven tenure-track appointments, 21 visiting professors, andeight lecturers, teaching fellows and instructors.

While most people worried about their gas consumption this summer, David Sands ’07 (Bozeman, Mont.) was far more interested in who made the car than how much gas it required. The rising senior had a Levitt Fellowship to investigate the economic differences between China and the U.S. by examining the importation of Chinese cars to America. Advised by the William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li, Sands worked on a project titled, “Are the Chinese Coming? An Assessment of China’s Attempt to Enter the U.S. Auto Market.”

Alana Pudalov ’08 (Armonk, N.Y.) spent her summer working at the Cornerstone Therapeutic Nursery in White Plains as an intern. While working with the children and shadowing the teachers, Pudalov got a taste of child psychology in a scholastic situation.

Paul Lieberstein '89 is associated with the NBC sitcom "The Office," which won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series on August 27. Lieberstein appears in a periodically recurring role as Toby on the show. He is also a writer and co-producer of several of the show's episodes.

Men’s Hockey Coach Phil Grady was honored as the first recipient of The Jerome Gottlieb ’64 Fellowship for Exemplary Coaching at this year’s convocation ceremony held on August 27.

Debra Boutin, associate professor of mathematics, recently chaired a session on Algebraic Aspects of Graphs at the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. At this same conference, Boutin also gave a talk titled 'Determining Sets - A Measure of Graph Symmetry,' in which she introduced a new tool for studying symmetry.