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Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu edited and published a book, Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, with China Social Sciences Press, (May 2012). The book is a collection of 23 articles selected from the papers at the 6th and the 7th International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Janelle Schwartz has published a guest post on the University of Minnesota Press Blog, titled  “Frankenstein and the worm: Not 'just' another essay on Frankenstein.” The blog is in advance of her forthcoming book Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism ( September 2012).

According to The Wall Street Journal’s June Marketwatch.com analysis, healthcare job openings will grow faster than any other industry in 46 out of the 50 states. Shoichi Sato ’13 plans to take advantage of this trend –while at the same time help others – by pursuing a career in the field of healthcare consulting. Sato is preparing for his future career goals by interning at the Harvard School of Public Health as a research assistant.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper titled "Forging the Past: John Hardyng and Anglo-Scottish Relations" at the International Medieval Congress held in Leeds, England, in July.

As a prospective creative writing, cinema and new media studies interdisciplinary concentrator, Sabrina Yurkofsky ’15 realizes that strong internship experience is necessary to break into the entertainment industry. Yurkofsky has already begun an internship with Red Varden Studios, a Culver City, Calif., television and film production company. The competitive intern program is described as an “entertainment boot camp” by Red Varden president and founder Zig Gauthier.

Amy Soenksen ’13 spent the spring semester interning and studying in the Capitol as a participant in Hamilton’s Washington D.C. Program.  When the academic year came to an end, she wasn’t quite ready to head back home to the West Coast. After hearing positive feedback about U.S. Department of Justice internships from three fellow Hamilton students, Soenksen decided to apply in the hopes of getting a taste of legal work on the federal level.

Martin Shuster, Truax Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy and visiting assistant professor of philosophy, presented a paper to the 12th annual Levinas Research Seminar (LRS) meeting, which took place July 6-7 at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Ian Nichols ’13 is having the experience of a lifetime as an intern for the international non-profit Bridges Across Borders in Jaque, Panama. Nichols is working as an English teacher and sea turtle conservationist in the rural village of Jaque, which is sandwiched between the Serranía del Bagre rainforest preserve and the Jaque beach on the Pacific Ocean. He describes his “office” as “a veranda overlooking the beach in the small cabin  in which I’m living.”

Tyler Roberts ’12 was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article “More Law Schools Haggle on Scholarships” (7/29/12). The piece describes how as the number of law school applicants has declined, some schools are negotiating scholarships and bargaining with prospective students while other schools don’t need to.

Anne E. Lacsamana, associate professor of women’s studies and chair of the Women’s Studies Department, has authored a new book. Revolutionizing Feminism: The Philippine Women's Movement in the Age of Terror was published this month by Paradigm Publishers.