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Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has work exhibited at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, N.Y. The group exhibition titled “Made In New York” was juried by Matthew Friday and Gerald Mead and runs until August 26. For directions and more information visit www.myartcenter.org

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was the invited Scholar-in-Residence at Decalogues Roundtable Discussion on "Where is God?" at the University of Denver in May. It was a three-day intensive roundtable discussion among 10 top scholars of Jewish Studies before an audience of students, faculty and the general public. On June 6, Ravven gave a Ford Foundation presentation to a group of scholars and other grantees on her ongoing research on "What Happened to Ethics? Searching for Ethics in a New America."  She also chaired a panel, "Was Spinoza an Atheist?" at the Association for Jewish Studies annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in December.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman presented a paper on June 9 at the joint annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society hosted by Boston University's Program in Gastronomy. This year's theme was "Place, Taste, and Sustenance: The Social Spaces of Food and Agriculture." Her paper was called "The Picky Eater: Professional Advice and Personal Experience in Educating Children's Tastes," and is both a survey of the advice given to parents of picky eaters and a memoir of her own experiences with her family's picky eater.

Kristin Alongi ’08 (Chittenango, N.Y.) and Alexa Ashworth ’09 (Pittsford, N.Y.) are working together on a summer research project in Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields’ computational chemistry lab. Alongi, a returning member of Shields’ lab, and Ashworth, new to summer research, are studying aerosol formation using advanced computer technology.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in an article in The Financial Times profiling Chen Deming, the official likely to become the next minister of China’s National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC).

A New York State historical marker commemorating the founding of Hamilton College by missionary Samuel Kirkland will be rededicated on the Hamilton campus on Sunday, July 2, as part of Historic Clinton Week.

Sylvia de Swaan, visiting instructor in art, has been awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in photography. de Swaan is one of 117 New York artists to receive a NYFA grant this year. More than 4,400 artists applied for the 2006 NYFA Fellowships in the following disciplines: architecture/environmental structures, choreography, fiction, music composition, painting, photography, playwriting/screenwriting and video. Fellows are selected by peer panels in each discipline. Eighteen photographers were among this year’s fellowship recipients.

Assistant Professor of Music Heather Buchman made a one-time appearance with the Excelsior Cornet Band for its performance at the 10th annual Chenango Summer MusicFest on June 17 in Hamilton, N.Y. She is pictured here holding the over-the-shoulder Eb Alto Horn. "The Excelsior Cornet Band is New York State's only authentic Civil War brass band. Founded in 2001, the band consists of a group of upstate New York musicians who are dedicated to the performance of original Civil War music on actual antique brass band instruments of the 1860's period." From the band's web site: http://www.excelsiorcornetband.com/

Ernest Williams, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Biology, presented at the annual meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society, held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, June 14-18. He gave a talk (coauthored with Associate Professor of Biology Bill Pfitsch) titled "Frosted Elfin Butterflies and Management of their Habitat." He has been secretary of the Society for the past eight years, so also participated in the business meetings. This is an international society focused on the scientific study of butterflies and moths. Attendees came from 13 countries and 33 states; the countries included Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Canada and the USA.

Some people never stop. Michael Mortimer ’07 (Montague, N.J.) spent last summer based on campus researching the friendship between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. This summer, he finds himself several hundred miles south and several hundred years later as, with Peter Cannavo, visiting assistant professor of government, he researches human-induced saltwater intrusions in the Upper Floridian aquifer.