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Professor of Art History Rand Carter presented a paper titled "Schinkels Sammlung architektonischer Entwuerfe: Dokument oder Romantische Träumerei" at the Karl Friedrich Schinkel: ein Sohn der Aufklaerung International Conference sponsored by Berlin’s Humboldt University.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori gave a presentation titled "Frantically Walking About the Modern Space With(in) a Magazine: Youth Migrancy and Travel in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Popular Fiction" at the Association of Japanese Literary Studies Conference at Josai International University in Tokyo, Japan (July 1-2). This year's conference theme was "Travel in Japanese Representation Culture: Its Past, Present and Future."

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published the second edition of a research methods textbook, Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation, with Russell K. Schutt. The book is a comprehensive introduction to social science methods, including surveys, interviews, experiments, elementary causal and data analysis, and issues of data synthesis and conceptualization, and occasionally includes examples from Hamilton's Mellon Foundation Assessment Project, a longitudinal study of student educational experiences at Hamilton.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, recently returned from Tartu, Estonia, where he attended the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA) conference at the University of Tartu. He presented a paper on transatlantic relations, titled "The EMU and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of the Crisis of the European Union" which was co-authored with Magnus Ryner of the University of Birmingham.

Greg Hartt ’08 is working on two computational chemistry projects with George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner this summer.

Members of the Hamilton College swim team made a big splash at the 8th annual Swim Across America event at Nantasket Beach in Hull, Mass. On July 15, they braved the chilly ocean water, along with U.S. Olympic swimmers, for a one-mile swim to support the David B. Perini, Jr. Quality of Life Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The event raised more than $250,000, with a record number of participants this year.

Chemistry majors Amanda Salisburg ’08 and Katherine Alser ’09 are working on an ongoing project in the computational chemistry lab under the advisement of the Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner. The project, involving the breast cancer-inhibiting alphafetoprotein, was started in the biology department about 10 years ago.

A.G. Lafley, a 1969 graduate of Hamilton College and CEO of Procter & Gamble, was honored by Chief Executive magazine as CEO of the Year at the CEO of the Year Forum held on July 12 at the New York Stock Exchange. In honor of the occasion, Lafley rang The Closing Bell.

Professor of Geosciences Eugene Domack gave an invited talk titled "Modern Antarctic glacial marine settings as partial analogs for Snowball Earth" at the Snowball Earth Conference in Ascona, Switzerland, on July 16-21.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented two papers at the 13th meeting of the International Association for the Economics of Participation held at Oñati, Spain from July 12 - 15.