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A photograph by Visiting Photography Instructor Sylvia de Swaan is featured on the title page of the eighth edition of Photography, a college photography textbook. Another image created by de Swaan is included in the recently published Occasional Sights - London Guidebook of Missed Opportunities and Things That Aren't Really There.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government was interviewed for an article in Business Week about China's relationship with Taiwan.   "Chinese leaders would even sacrifice the [2008 Beijing] Olympics [by going to war] if it meant keeping Taiwan," says Li.  This article also appeared on MSNBC.com and Yahoo!News.

Professors of Archaeology Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones presented two papers and a poster at meetings of the Society for American Anthropology from March 31 - April 1 in Montreal. One paper, "Technological Organization, Transport Costs and Performance Characteristics: Selectionist Archaeology or Evolutionary Ecology?" is co-authored with Rebecca A. Kessler '03 graduate student at the University of Washington. The other, "Is there Clovis in the Great Basin?," is co-authored with Amanda K. Taylor '02, also at the University of Washington. Two Hamilton seniors, Khori Newlander and Kaylan Hubbard, also presented a poster on their senior thesis work at the meeting.

I had a mission as I hopped on the subway stop at City Hall. It was Monday and instead of assisting with arraignments in court, I had been reassigned to find and copy court files from the Bronx Criminal Court on 161st Street. Sometimes you’ve got to entertain yourself by assuming that a small task you're assigned is really an important mission.  Such is the delicate balance of interning.

John Adams, visiting professor of rhetoric and communication, published an op-ed, "Father George? Brother John?," in the Syracuse Post-Standard on the familial metaphor in presidential campaign discourse. Adams said, "As we try to make sense of our experiences and life's uncertainties, we take comfort in the categories we use to simplify life's unfolding drama. When we categorize a person, we set up expectations and follow cultural scripts concerning what we do - to, with or for them."

If you would like to sign up for the the Long-Term Planning Strategies for You & Your Family seminar on Wednesday, March 31, at noon in The Hub, Bristol Center, a few spaces are still available. Please contact Personnel Services (vpalmer,) ext. 4302.  Lunch will be provided.

The Hamilton College Gay Issues Poll was mention in the Los Angeles Times article "Acceptance of Gays on Rise, Polls Show."  The article stated, "A national survey of 1,000 high school seniors, conducted in 2001 by students at Hamilton College in association with the Zogby polling organization, found that 66% favored legalizing gay marriage - more than double the percentage found in polls of adults."  The Gay Issues Poll was designed and analyzed by Sociology Professor Dennis Gilbert and Hamilton students.  The poll was funded by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College and co-released with MTV.

Bruce Dobkin '69 was featured in an article about stroke treatment in the March 8 issue of Newsweek magazine, titled "How A Brain Heals" (pg 49). Dobkin, a neurologist at UCLA, is exploring new methods of rehabilitation for stroke patients, based on the idea that the brain actually can recover function after a stroke by recruiting nearby neurons to work in the injured park of the brain.

Debra Boutin, assistant professor of mathematics, presented her work titled "Graphs Embedded with all Symmetries Displayed" at the Thirty-fifth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing at Florida Atlantic University on  March 10.  Her work proves that any graph can be emedded in Euclidean space (of some dimension) so that  its Euclidean isometry group is precisely its graph automorphism group.

The Antarctic Peninsula is undergoing greater warming than almost anywhere on Earth and the Peninsula's Larsen Ice Shelf, the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica, has experienced catastrophic decay since the mid 1990s.  Hamilton College geology professor Eugene Domack has been awarded $851,941 from the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs for a collaborative research project to study the Paleohistory of the Larsen Ice Shelf.