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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, is co-author of an article "Monetary Union and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of Europe's Crisis" with Magnus Ryner. It was published in New Political Economy 12, 2 (June, 2007).

In his new book, “The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place” (MIT Press), Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò focuses on the displacement and transformation of our landscape, the “crisis of place facing the United States.” He points out that “rampant development, unsustainable exploitation of resources, environmental degradation, and the commodification of places are ruining built and natural landscapes, disconnecting people from their surroundings and threatening individuals’ fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape.”

In his new book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (MIT Press, July, 2007), Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò focuses on the displacement and transformation of our landscape, the "crisis of place facing the United States." He points out that "rampant development, unsustainable exploitation of resources, environmental degradation, and the commodification of places are ruining built and natural landscapes, disconnecting people from their surroundings and threatening individuals' fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape."

Melissa Kong '08 reviewed the book, College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World, by Lindsey Pollak for TIME staff writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's blog "Work in Progress." Kong is an intern at TIME for Kids and impressed Cullen with her initiative when they met last year. Cullen asked Kong to review the book from the perspective of the target reader.

Hamilton employees and students volunteered their time on July 20 to clean up Roger's Glen.  More than 20 volunteers worked around the pond above Loop Road to the Menotti/Rogers property line near Route 233. They cleaned up debris from the construction of the Science Center, the culvert replacement on Campus Road, and the College landfill.

An opinion piece written by Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory Edward Walker ’62, appeared on Friday, July 20, in The Providence Journal (R.I.). Titled “A war with Iran would be madness,” Walker’s op-ed suggested that the recent leaks from the White House intimating a possible major military strike against Iran are really about two combatants posturing for different audiences — Iranian President Ahmedinijad for support in Iran and the Middle East and Vice President Cheney for Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Kahmeni. Walker, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt under previous administrations, warns that the U.S. should not sacrifice any hope of stabilizing the region by launching an ill-advised strike against Iran.

The pearl crescent (Phyciodes tharos) is one of the most abundant small butterflies in eastern North America. Favoring open, sunny areas like roadsides, fields, and gardens as their habitat, pearl crescents lay their eggs on the underside of aster leaves. Asters contain a chemical known as germacrene D, a chiral product (its mirror images cannot be superimposed on one another) containing only one chiral center (an atom that is bound to four different atoms). Amy Klockowski ’09 (Rome, N.Y.) is continuing research she began last summer by attempting to synthesize optically pure (+)-germacrene D to see how the butterflies' antennae (which contain the olfactory receptor neurons) react to the chemical.

There are lots of interns in D.C. this summer but not all of them get to watch the Senate debate. Not all of them have to. As an intern with the Coalition for American Leadership Abroad (COLEAD), though, Philip Holdredge '08 (Oneonta, N.Y.) is responsible for an e-mail update concerning specific Senate debates, and he sometimes has to sit them out -- even when they go until midnight.

Hamilton lost an outstanding teacher and friend when Dwight Lindley '42, professor emeritus of English, died on July 18. He was a member of the faculty for more than three decades. Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart sent news of Professor Lindley's passing to the College community.

Jay Williams, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, participated in "River Summer," a program of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities, of which Hamilton College is a member. He spent five days in July living on a boat and studying the ecology and history of the Hudson River from Pierpont Point to Newburg. The group took many water samples, studying the salinity, density, and temperature of the water of the Hudson as well as various lakes, marshes and brooks of the area. They also were introduced to archaeological sites, historic homes, and problems of city planning along the river.