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Professor of French John O'Neal published a paper that he presented in 2000 at an international conference at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm, in Paris. The paper was titled "Pour une mappemonde de l'âme: Les effets du climat sur la culture d'une nation dans L'Esprit des lois de Montesquieu." In Morales et politique: Actes du colloque international organisé par le Groupe d'Etude des Moralistes. Ed. Jean Dagen, Marc Escola et Martin Rueff. Collection "Moralia." Paris: Champion, 2005, pp. 247-69.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman has published a chapbook of poems, excerpted from her manuscript Wet Apples, White Blood, in the on-line journal The Drunken Boat.

The dedication celebration of Hamilton College's new $56 million Science Center will include events beginning on Thursday, Sept. 29, and ending on Friday, Sept. 30, many of which are free and open to the public. With the completion of the center, Hamilton College will have nearly doubled, from 106,000 to 192,000 square feet, the amount of space dedicated to science instruction. The new Science Center will host 56 offices, 48 teaching laboratories, 53 research laboratories, 67 support rooms and 11 high-tech classrooms to be used by the physics, biology, archaeology, chemistry, geosciences and psychology programs. The building was designed to encourage and highlight interdisciplinary work, especially in the areas of neuroscience, biochemistry and environmental studies.

As the first presenter in this year’s Faculty Lecture Series, Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller delivered a talk on September 16, titled “Teaching History, Teaching the Nation: Narratives of time in the Usbek history curriculum.” Her lecture centered on the ways in which the creation of Uzbekistan in 1924 was promoted through the Uzbek education system.

John Werner '92 was included in <i>Education Week</i>'s "People in the News" column on its Web site edweek.org. Werner was recently named executive director of Citizen Schools Boston. According to edweek.org, "Located in 13 cities, Citizen Schools operate after-school apprenticeship programs at public middle schools. Mr. Werner, 35, has worked with the organization since its inception in 1995. His previous job with the group was as the executive director of Citizen Schools’ 8th Grade Academy and alumni services."

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper at the 7th Conference of the European Sociological Association Institute of Sociology, held at Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. The paper, titled “The EMU and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of the Crises of the European Union,” was co-authored by Professor of Political Science Magnus Ryner of the University of Birmingham, UK. The paper challenged the conventional belief that the launching of the Euro represents an unprecedented level of European integration and a more even balance of power between the European Union and the United States.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has a work displayed at Rochester Contemporary in an exhibition titled (un)bound. This artists' books exhibition is in collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology Special Collections. The show opened on August 5 and concluded on September 18.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald’s essay, "Avant-Gardens," was recently published in Jean Petrolle and Virginia Wright Wexman's Women and Experimental Filmmaking. The essay focuses on films relating to gardens and to the idea of the garden as a sacred space. MacDonald also wrote a preface for a new edition of Amos Vogel's classic film book Film As a Subversive Art, which has just been published by C.T. Editions in London. The book is a survey of subversive cinema.

Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies Diane Fox has written a chapter as part of the book Le Viet Nam au Feminin. Fox's chapter titled “Speaking with Women in Vietnam about the Consequences of War: writing against silence and forgetting” focuses on women’s issues in Vietnam today. The book is edited by Gisele Bousquet and Nora Taylor, and published by Les Indes Savantes, Paris.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $181,703 to Hamilton College for support of a project directed by Derek C. Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, titled "Collaborative Research: The Nature and Effects of Human Resource Policies: Econometric Case Studies of Firms in the U.S., China and Finland."  A similar award (about $135,000) also went to Takao Kato, a Colgate economics professor who is a visiting scholar in economics at Hamilton. The NSF grant is the result of a collobarative proposal submitted by Jones and Kato. Several students have already worked with Jones on related issues, and this new award calls for other students to work on this project during the next three years.