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The Richard W. Couper Press has issued a new publication, Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899: Watervliet, Hancock, Tyringham, New Lebanon, edited by Glendyne R. Wergland. This is a companion to her earlier volume published by the Couper Press in 2007, which covered 1788-1849. Visitors to Shaker communities recorded impressions of Shaker life, material culture, and worship. These 85 accounts provide a valuable window into Shaker life.

On April 20 the students in the New York Program had dinner and spent the evening with Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Sue Ann Miller, professor of biology, gave a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association of Anatomists held with the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology [FASEB] April 24-28 in Anaheim, Calif. Her presentation was titled "Exercises to encourage analytical skills and enrich understanding in a pre-baccalaureate anatomy course.”

Hamilton students in the Program in Washington were invited to participate in a conference titled “Realizing a World Without Nuclear Weapons” on March 30. The conference was held in the new George C. Marshall Conference Center at the State Department and brought together several key Department of State assistant secretaries dealing with disarmament, private experts, non-governmental representatives of interested organizations and college graduate and undergraduate students and faculty.

Fifty-seven Hamilton seniors were inducted into Phi Sigma Iota, the national honorary society for students of foreign languages, in a ceremony on April 29 in the Science Center atrium. Each student was awarded a certificate to recognize outstanding achievement in the study of one or more foreign languages. In addition, three seniors were recognized by the Classics Department for their outstanding achievement in Latin and Greek.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson gave an invited talk, "The Confucius of the Temple Cults," at the China Institute in New York on May 11 in connection with the exhibition, "Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art." He is the co-author with Michael Nylan of Lives of Confucius: A Cultural History (Doubleday Religion, 4/10).

Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Oldfield has published “‘Confusion in the Universe’: Conflict and Narrative in Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire” in The Annual of Urdu Studies 25 (2010).

Eve Denton ’12 and Kelsey Rice ’10 have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to pursue learning in critical needs languages this summer. Denton will study Chinese in Shanghai and Rice will study Azerbaijani in Azerbaijan. Denton is a Chinese major and Rice is majoring in history at Hamilton.

Emily Zeidler ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia. She is an anthropology major at Hamilton.

John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Art, has published Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age with the University of Texas Press.