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Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman attended the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in Oxford, England, on September 3-4, where she gave a paper, "The Work of Food in the Age of Molecular Gastronomy: Authenticity and Artistry in the Contemporary Food Scene."  According to its Web site, The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is an educational charity. Its prime objective is to foster and encourage exploration of food history as a serious topic of research, and the purpose of its charitable status is to allow it to raise funds to sponsor endeavours in this field.

Dr. I. James McMullen of Pembroke College, Oxford University, will present a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m. in KJ 222. His talk is titled “Sacrifices to Confucius in Edo Japan.” Dr. McMullen is a leading scholar of Confucianism in Edo Japan. This event is free and open to the campus community.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed and quoted in a Business Week article titled "Mr. Hu Comes to Washington" which appears in the magazine's  September 12 issue. The article discusses Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit to the United States and how his meetings with President Bush will shape future China-U.S. relations.

Johns Hopkins University professor Les Roberts addressed the Hamilton community in a talk titled, “100,000 Civilian Deaths in Iraq: A Story of Media Spin,” on Thursday, Sept. 1. Roberts, an associate professor at Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, presented the under-published and often misrepresented findings of a study that he conducted along with other researchers from Hopkins and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.

Hamilton College announces a new film and lecture series, F.I.L.M (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion), scheduled on Sunday afternoons and Tuesday evenings. All events are free and open to the public.

In response to the devastation suffered by the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Hamilton College is eager to assist its Central New York student neighbors. Those students who are within commuting distance of Clinton, N.Y., and who are enrolled in colleges and universities in the Gulf area that have been forced to suspend operation are welcome to take classes for credit at no cost at Hamilton this fall, depending on course availability. Local students who were enrolled or planned to enroll at colleges located in the disaster area are encouraged to contact Hamilton's Office of the Dean of Students immediately at 315-859-4020.

John Werner ’92 (Dorchester, Mass.) has been named executive director of Citizen Schools Boston. Citizen Schools is a national network of after-school “apprenticeship education” programs for students in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Werner will lead nine Citizen Schools’ program sites, and his primary responsibilities will be to promote a culture of school achievement and to raise the visibility and impact of Citizen Schools’ hands-on learning classes. He will oversee 75 full- and part-time staff serving 800 youth in the city. “I want to make Boston the best city to grow up in,” said Werner, “I think Citizen Schools and our business and community partners can play a significant role in making that happen.”

Experience as a Green Party member in Washington State led Young Han '06 to apply for an Emerson grant to study electoral reform. An economics major, Han chose the project based on his personal interest, rather than academic goals. "I realized how skewed the system was against the third party," said Han. His project, titled "Single-transferable Vote in the Rhetoric of Electoral Reform," brought him to Vancouver, British Columbia, where electoral reform is at the forefront of public issues. Han's project was to "study how electoral reform advocates have framed the issue to make it accessible to the general public," he explained.

Fifty-six Hamilton students were awarded prizes and scholarships at the College's annual convocation, held this year on Sunday, Aug. 28. Convocation marked the ceremonial start to Hamilton's 194th year. Among prizes awarded were The Benjamin Walworth Arnold Prize Scholarships, given annually to the holder of a regular scholarship in each of the sophomore, junior and senior classes who has achieved the best record in college coursework in the preceding year. Winners were Matthew Danziger '06 (Ocean Beach, N.Y.) Heather Michael '07 (Red Hook, N.Y.) and Kristin Alongi '08 (Chittenango, N.Y.) Alongi also was awarded the Brockway Prize, given to the rising sophomore who has the best academic record.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, was a panelist at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting held in New Orleans in August. Rowe was a member of the panel "All That Jazz: The Role of Academic Repositories in Preserving American Jazz." He discussed how Hamilton's Jazz Archive transcribes video and audiotaped interviews of jazz artists.