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Professor of French John O'Neal gave a talk for Colgate University's Humanities Colloquium Series on September 26. The talk was titled "Nature as Refuge: From Rousseau's Cascade to Central New York's Trenton Falls."

Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, spoke on the role of wealthy oligarchs in the transition of post-communist economies on September 27. Aslund, who has served as an economic adviser to the governments of Russia and Ukraine, said that the proliferation of oligarchs in these nations is not only a natural outcome of their economic conditions, but is in fact an important step in their progress toward capitalism. The lecture was the first in the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center’s series on “Inequality and Equity.”

John Hewko '79, vice president of operations for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, addressed the United Nations on Sept. 18. He spoke at a meeting about social and economic development of least developed countries. Hewko said, "In Monterrey, President Bush announced a path-breaking program, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, or MCC. The MCC’s single focus is to provide support to those poor countries which are indeed taking steps to invest in their own people, to promote economic freedom and opportunity, and to encourage accountable and inclusive governance, where individual rights and free expression are respected. MCC’s mandate is to reduce poverty through sustainable growth. We work with partners whose own performance makes reaching that goal a real possibility. The MCC is already engaged with 23 countries whose policy performance, measured by independent, objective indicators, has made them eligible for MCC funds. Among them are 12 Least Developed Countries."

The Emerson Gallery will host several events in October related to the two current exhibitions, "Native Perspectives: George Longfish and Shelley Niro" and "WPA Arists: Prints from the Amity Arts Foundation." These shows and related events are free and open to the public. Both exhibitions will be open through Dec. 30.  

Elizabeth Economy, CV Starr Senior Fellow and director for Asian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an award-winning author of "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future" (2004), will speak on Monday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The title of her talk is “Environmental Challenges to China's Future.” This lecture is part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series titled “Inequality and Equity” and is free and open to the public.

Students and faculty from the Sophomore Seminar "Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondack Park" visited the Adirondacks on September 23-24. On Saturday they went to Whiteface Mountain, the farm and gravesite of John Brown, and Great Camp Wenonah, home of Hamilton alumnus Jim Schoff '68. The group also visited new Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks in Tupper Lake, had lunch on Long Lake with the family of a student in the class, and then toured the original iron mine in the middle of the Adirondacks, with the tour led by William Kelly, state geologist.

Kevin Maynard, a member of the Class of 1988, is a lead writer on “Dexter”, a critically acclaimed new series on Showtime about a charismatic serial killer. The show premiers on Sunday, October 1 at 10 p.m. "Dexter" web link on the Showtime site: www.sho.com/site/homepage/index.do

Professor of Biology David Gapp gave a seminar on September 22 at the Le Moyne College Biology Department. His topic was "Diabetes in the common snapper, Chelydra serpentina: a transient phenomenon in Utica Marsh."

Philip Klinkner, associate dean of students and James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was quoted in a September 24 New York Times article titled "1994, the Election to Embrace (and Avoid)" about the lessons current politicians took from the pivotal Republican campaign of 1994. "There were lots of Democratic incumbents who went down in 1994 who thought they were in safe seats," said Klinkner, who edited Midterm: The Elections of 1994 in Context (Transforming American Politics).

Jacques Guerlin de Guer, a professor of French in Hamilton’s Junior Year in France program in Biarritz from 1957 to 1987, died on July 8, 2006 at the age of 90.