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Brian J. Glenn, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, presented a paper titled, "The Lessons and Legacies of State Old Age Pensions" at the biannual Policy History Conference at the University of Virginia.  The paper examines the remarkably successful campaign by the Fraternal Order of Eagles to bring non-contributory pensions to the elderly prior to the Social Security Act of 1935.  The conference also hosted two panels on Glenn's co-edited project on conservatives and American political development.

William Hoffman ’07 (Baltimore, Md.) received an Emerson research grant to pursue a project in geosciences with Barbara Tewksbury, the William R. Kenan Professor of Geology. His project, titled “Reconnaisance Study of Deformation Bands in Palagonitic Tuffs in Iceland,” will take him to Iceland to collect samples to be studied at Hamilton.

Derek C. Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics at Hamilton and a visiting professor at the Helsinki School of Economics, recently published an article titled “The Determinants of Stock Option Compensation: Evidence from Finland” in the academic journal Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. His co-authors were Panu Kalmi and Mikko Makinen.

Elena Filekova ’08 (Gabrovo, Bulgaria) is a double major in mathematics and economics and has taken numerous Hamilton economics courses in which she learned, understandably, a great deal about the U.S. economy. She is also well-read in EU economic development. She was surprised, however, to learn how little had been published about her own country of Bulgaria, set to enter the EU in 2007. What was the preparation for this entry doing to Bulgaria’s economy? What effects would this have on states already in the EU or future members? No one had dealt with these questions and Filekova, interested, applied for and was granted a Levitt Research Fellowship to study the macroeconomic effects of the Bulgarian integration into the European Union.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has work exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. The group exhibition titled “Everson Biennial: Beauty is in the Eye of the Artist” features the work of Central New York artists who address nature, people, dreams and abstraction. Claire Schneider, associate curator of contemporary art at Albright Knox curated the exhibition which runs until August 20. For directions and more information visit www.everson.org.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and ACCESS Project coordinator Sharon Gormley were among panel presenters at a conference, "How Class Works," at SUNY Stony Brook on June 9.  Other presenters were former welfare recipients Professor Jackie Pope, Dr. Jillyn Stevens and Bich Ha Pham, Esq., all of whom are featured in the ACCESS Project photo exhibit The Missing Story of Ourselves. All of the panel members spoke about the exhibit, welfare reform and access to higher education.

Allie Massaro ’07 (Lewiston, New York) and Wendy Doster ’08 (Basking Ridge, New Jersey), both new to summer research, are working on three different projects in the physiology lab with Professor of Biology David Gapp.

Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca, Reference Librarian Lynn Mayo and Instructional Technology Specialist Krista Siniscarco presented a session during the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) Conference being held at Hamilton this week. The session, titled “Turn On, Tune In, Print Out: A Professor-Technologist-Librarian-Student Experiment in Multimedia Collaboration,” reported the results of an “experiment” on conducting an entire seminar around multimedia.

Photographs of  the nearly 1300 members of the Hamilton family who attended Reunions '06 are available on HOLAC. The weekend provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us on the Hill.Photgraphs of many of the nearly 1300 members of the Hamilton family who attended Reunions '06 are available on HOLAC. The weekend provided the perfect opportunity for alumni and their families to return to campus, relive old times and create new memories. Whether you celebrated your fifth or sixtieth, we trust you enjoyed catching up with classmates, visiting old haunts, meeting professors and students and attending Alumni Colleges. Thanks for joining us on the Hill.

Kevin Donegan ’07 (Oneida, New York) applied for and received an Emerson Foundation grant to work on a summer research project in geosciences with Associate Professor of Geology Todd Rayne. Donegan’s project is titled “Determining the special and temporal variability of recharge in the Sauquoit Creek Basin (Oneida County).”