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Joshua Agins ’07 (Rochester, N.Y.) is working for the environment this summer, though not in the way you might expect. Agins is a Levitt Fellow and with Peter Cannavo, visiting assistant professor of government, is researching how the Supreme Court has applied individual standing to sue in environmental citizen suits. 

Physics students Michael Gregg ’08 (Albany, N.Y.), Yubo Lu ’07 (Shanghai, China) and Julia MacDougall ’09 (Wilmington, Mass.) are working on summer research projects involving the theory of Quantum Gravity with Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major. The theory of quantum gravity is the “missing link” in a unifying theory between quantum mechanics, which deals with a small scale, and the theory of general relativity, which looks at the larger scale.

Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu was keynote speaker of the 5th International Conference on New Technologies in Teaching and Learning Chinese (ICNTTLC5), held at City University of Hong Kong, China, on July 19-22.  His speech was titled "Multimedia Instruction-Reasons, History, Current Situation, and Future." ICNTTLC5 is the largest biennial conference on technology and Chinese language teaching, which is organized by the Association of Modernization of Chinese Language Education (AMCLE). 

Professor of Art History Rand Carter presented a paper titled "Schinkels Sammlung architektonischer Entwuerfe: Dokument oder Romantische Träumerei" at the Karl Friedrich Schinkel: ein Sohn der Aufklaerung International Conference sponsored by Berlin’s Humboldt University.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori gave a presentation titled "Frantically Walking About the Modern Space With(in) a Magazine: Youth Migrancy and Travel in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Popular Fiction" at the Association of Japanese Literary Studies Conference at Josai International University in Tokyo, Japan (July 1-2). This year's conference theme was "Travel in Japanese Representation Culture: Its Past, Present and Future."

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published the second edition of a research methods textbook, Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation, with Russell K. Schutt. The book is a comprehensive introduction to social science methods, including surveys, interviews, experiments, elementary causal and data analysis, and issues of data synthesis and conceptualization, and occasionally includes examples from Hamilton's Mellon Foundation Assessment Project, a longitudinal study of student educational experiences at Hamilton.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, recently returned from Tartu, Estonia, where he attended the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA) conference at the University of Tartu. He presented a paper on transatlantic relations, titled "The EMU and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of the Crisis of the European Union" which was co-authored with Magnus Ryner of the University of Birmingham.

Greg Hartt ’08 is working on two computational chemistry projects with George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner this summer.

Chemistry majors Amanda Salisburg ’08 and Katherine Alser ’09 are working on an ongoing project in the computational chemistry lab under the advisement of the Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner. The project, involving the breast cancer-inhibiting alphafetoprotein, was started in the biology department about 10 years ago.

A.G. Lafley, a 1969 graduate of Hamilton College and CEO of Procter & Gamble, was honored by Chief Executive magazine as CEO of the Year at the CEO of the Year Forum held on July 12 at the New York Stock Exchange. In honor of the occasion, Lafley rang The Closing Bell.