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Ernest Williams, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Biology, published the lead article in the latest issue of the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 62(4):177-188. The article, "Monarch butterfly clusters provide microclimatic advantages during the overwintering season in Mexico," was coauthored by collaborators from Sweet Briar College and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and was based on field work in Mexico during February 2007 and January 2008.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung was invited to give a paper, "Mapping the Invisible: Ethnic Passing and Feminized Male Labor in the Nightclubs in Japan," at the 2008 RCAPS Conference: The Asia Pacific in the Emerging World System at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in December 2008.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, co-authored "LBJ's Revenge: The 2008 Election and the Rise of the Great Society Coalition" in the election issue (Vol. 6, Issue 4) of The Forum - A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics published by Berkeley Electronic Press. This article presents a distinctive overview of the 2008 election contest focused on its coalitional underpinnings.

The Hamilton music department is hosting the International Academy of Advanced Conducting after Ilya Musin, a conducting workshop with two renowned teachers who studied with the 20th century Russian pedagogue Ilya Musin, from Jan. 21 to Jan. 25. The Hamilton Orchestra will act as the host ensemble playing for the workshop. The final performance  will take place at noon on Sunday, Jan. 25, in Wellin Hall and is free and open to the public.

Sharon Williams, director of the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center, presented a talk at the annual meeting of the Small Liberal Arts Colleges Writing Program Administrators at Lafayette College on Jan. 10. Her talk was titled "Sustaining a successful writing center program across time."

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Associate Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives and Associate Professor of English Steve Yao has been elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, the largest professional organization focusing on the study and teaching of the humanities and the status of the language and literature in the U.S.

Anthony Sali '10 was named Hamilton's seventeenth GOLD Scholar. In the age of multi-million dollar gifts many young alumni have asked, "How does my $25, $75 or $250 gift matter when the financial needs of Hamilton College are so great?" This question is answered by the GOLD Scholars Program.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons participated in an invited panel on anti-civil rights violence in the south at the Southern Political Science Association Meetings, Jan. 8-10, in New Orleans. The interdisciplinary panel brought together scholars from law, political science and sociology to discuss their work on white violence against civil rights activists and black southerners during the civil rights era.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin presented a paper and chaired a panel at the 9th International Conference of Chinese Scholars Association on Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in December. Her paper was titled "Task complexity and its effect on triggering negotiation of meaning" and the panel she chaired was on Second Language Research and Pedagogical Innovation.