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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.

Hamilton senior Haley Reimbold (Roosevelt, N.J.) has received another honor in recognition of her leadership in volunteer work. Reimbold has been awarded a $25,000 Target All-Around Scholarship for her outstanding commitment to volunteerism and her efforts reaching out to students using community service activities as a way to help them improve their own situations while giving back to the community. Reimbold was selected as the winner from a nationwide pool of nearly 12,000 applicants. In 2004 she received the $50,000 Russ Berrie Award for Making a Difference in New Jersey.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller will open Hamilton's faculty lecture series on Friday, Sept. 16, with a lecture titled "Teaching History, Teaching the Nation: Narratives of time in the Uzbek history curriculum." The lecture will take place at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson, followed by a reception at Cafe Opus.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for his project "Foreign Accents: Chinese American Poetry and the Language of Ethnicity." The abstract explains: "To address the current limitations of Asian American literary criticism, this study discusses works by an exemplary group of poets in and from the U.S. (mostly of specifically Chinese descent), each of whom bears a distinctive relationship to the linguistic and cultural tradition he or she seeks to represent."

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Susan Sanchez-Casal is co-author of Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul, with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Health Communications, Inc., August, 2005). The Chicken Soup series features inspirational, motivational and uplifting stories. Since the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book, there have been 80 million copies sold in 65 titles and 37 languages. This book showcases the storytelling traditions of the Latino culture, articulating the joys, struggles and triumphs of the Latino experience.

The Inaugural Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library Lecture was held on Friday, September 9. This annual lecture will honor Hamilton alumnus and trustee Richard “Dick” Couper ’44 for his commitment and contributions to Hamilton College and the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the oldest academic honorary society in America. David Stam, the former Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries at the New York Public Library and Syracuse University librarian emeritus was the speaker for this event. His topic was “An Army without Ammunition: Books and the College Library,” about the trials and tribulations of Hamilton and its library in the 19th century.  

The Performing Arts at Hamilton College announces an exciting roster of world-class professional performances for its 2005-06 season. From classical Indian music to multimedia musical spectacle, the Classical Connections and Contemporary Voices and Visions Series have something that everyone will enjoy. All performances are general admission and held at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus at 8 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Dr. I. James McMullen of Pembroke College, Oxford University gave a lecture titled “Sacrifices to Confucius in Edo Japan” on Thursday, Sept. 8, at Hamilton. A leader in the field of Edo Period Japanese Confucian studies, Dr. McMullen recently returned from a year in Japan researching the “Sekiten” (“Shidian” in Chinese) ritual, associated with Japanese Confucian practices.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was featured in a London, Financial Times article about Chinese President Hu Jintao. "Hu's strength is not his understanding of the outside world but of the real China - that is, rural China," says the Shanghai-born but New York-based Prof Li. Li was also interviewed by the China News Service, which distributes news to more than 400 Web sites and newspapers in China, and by the BBC and the Voice of America.