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Josh Simpson '72 will participate in a meet the artist event at the Steuben Glass flagship New York City store on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 14 and 15, from noon to 6 p.m. in conjunction with an exhibit of his work there. Simpson's Steuben Selection Exhibition will be on view at the store, 667 Madison Ave. at 61st Street, through December 31.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, discussed the recent elections in Russia and the European Union's criticism of the election process on Jamaica's major news/talk radio station on Thursday, Dec. 6. Interviewing Cafruny were former Jamaican Minister of Tourism Anthony Abrahams and Trevor Munroe, government professor at the University of West Indies.

Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead has two paintings in a show titled "Urban Landscapes" that opened on Friday, Dec. 7, at Susan Maasch Fine Art, a gallery in Portland, Maine. There will be a reception at the gallery on Friday, Jan. 4.

Assistant Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang represented Hamilton's Sigma Xi chapter in the Sigma Xi annual business meeting held in Orlando from Nov. 1 - 4. Sigma Xi is a scientific research society founded in 1886. Hamilton College chapter members include faculty at several local colleges, institutions in other regions, scientists in non-academic roles, and loyal alumni.

Eight Hamilton students have received grants from the Academic Council to pursue research in upcoming projects. The recipients of grants from the Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Fund are Mark Ducommun '10, Charlie Kaplan '11, Rachel Richardson '09, Katie Naughton '08, Casey Bloomquist '10, James Head '08 and Sandra Chiu '08. Sarah Moore '09, Naughton and Richardson have also been selected as recipients of the Class of 1979 Student Travel Award.

Dan Nye '88, CEO of networking site LinkedIn, is featured in a CNN Money online interview with CNN Money.com editor at large Paul R. La Monica (12/05/07). LinkedIn is a professional networking site with 17 million members that is built on social-networking concepts and principles. In the interview Nye describes LinkedIn as "the fastest growing social networking site in the world," and says that "advertisers love LinkedIn because of the demographic of people using it. The demographic matches Wall Street Journal readership," Nye said.

Thomas Meehan '51 has co-written a new musical, Cry Baby, (with Mark O'Donnell) that premieres November 6 through December 16, at the La Jolla Playhouse of La Jolla, Calif.  The Alumni Associations of Los Angeles and San Diego have group tickets for the December 8 show. Alumni and friends of Hamilton College are invited to experience "this hilarious new musical."

For a platoon at Camp Warhorse in Baquba, Iraq, the holidays might be a bit cheerier thanks to a connection forged between a group of Hamilton students and a Physical Plant employee who is currently serving there. Horticultural Grounds Worker John Gates and his platoon of some 40 men will be the recipients of care packages collected and sent by students at Hamilton. A new student organization, Hamilton College Supports the Troops (HCSTT), was formed in November to gather care packages to American troops serving abroad.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies Laura Brueck gave an invited lecture on Nov. 30 titled "Good Dalits, Bad Brahmins: Melodramatic Realism in the Hindi Dalit Short Story" as part of the University of Michigan's Center for South Asian Studies Scholarly Lecture Series.  

Tanguy L'Aminot, editor of Etudes Jean-Jacques Rousseau and director of the study group at the Sorbonne focused on the work of this 18th-century Swiss thinker, has announced the publication of volume 16 in this series, for which Professor of French John C. O'Neal wrote an article: "La confusion de la société dans la Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles et la question de la modernité de Rousseau" (pp. 253-266). As an honorary associate member of the Centre d'Etude des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles at the Sorbonne, O'Neal participated in the work of this study group in 2003-2004. He is chair of the French Department at Hamilton.