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Barbara K. Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article, "Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?," in A Companion to Roman Love Elegy, ed. B.K. Gold.  Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

To conclude its program series on Security, the Levitt Center brought John Dehn to campus to present a lecture titled “War and the Constitution: Military Commissions, Targeted Killing of Citizens, and Other Hard Cases.” Dehn – a senior fellow at the West Point Center for the Rule of Law at the United States Military Academy – discussed the philosophical, constitutional and legal underpinnings of the doctrine and law of war and the implications they have on the international system, as well as on due process rights of American citizens and foreigners involved in war.

Only A Game, an award-winning weekly sports magazine broadcast by National Public Radio, featured an interview with Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu about his and senior Kendall Weir’s study, “The Effects of Character on NFL Draft Status and Subsequent Performance.”

“What Would Michael Harrington Say?,” an article by Maurice Isserman, Harrington’s biographer and the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, appeared in The Nation on April 25. In the article, Isserman described Harrington as “the pre-eminent figure of American socialism” and noted that he was often referred to as the “man who discovered poverty.”

Erika Desmond ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Austria.  She is a creative writing major at Hamilton.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover presented the paper “Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation and Voting Behavior” at the Vassar College Economics Seminar Series on April 23. In the paper, Conover and co-authors evaluate the effect of enrollment in a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program on the intent to vote and on electoral choice.

Professor of Biology Ernest Williams took six students to the Northeast Natural History Conference 2012, held April 16-18 at the OnCenter in Syracuse, N.Y., where he and the students all made presentations.

Two prints by William R. Kenan Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead were selected for the 32nd Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink in Fort Wayne, Ind.

On April 18, students in the Program in Washington were in the Supreme Court to hear oral argument in the case of Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapters, et al., which arose out of a dispute about federal payments for services contracted out to Indian tribes. The case raises important constitutional questions about congressional spending power.

John Dehn, senior fellow at the West Point Center for the Rule of Law, U.S. Military Academy, will lecture at Hamilton on Thursday, April 26, at 4:15 p.m., in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. Dehn’s lecture, part of the Levitt Center’s Security series, will focus on the extra-judicial killing of American citizens. It is free and open to the public.