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David Paris, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, announced the appointment of Andrea Habbel as Administrative Assistant to the VPAA/Dean of Faculty. Habbel received her MPA from Syracuse University in 1997 and has been Assistant Director of Institutional Research at Hamilton for the past four years. In her new position she will be responsible for tracking and analyzing information on personnel and budgets, as well as general office management. She will formally begin her work in the VPAA/Dean's office on August 27.

Associate Professor of Government Steve Orvis, along with Dr. Karuti Kanyinga, has been awarded a $3,000 International Visitors Award by the African Studies Association to bring Kanyinga to the United States for a lecture tour culminating in attendance at the ASA annual meeting. As part of the award, Kanyinga will speak at Hamilton on November 8. At the ASA meeting in November, he will take part in one of two panels Orvis has organized on "Succession Politics in Kenya."

In July, Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley presented a paper titled "`Luther's Pestiferous Virus:' An Angry Jesuit Remaps the Nuremberg Chronicle" at the conference of the Early Book Society in Cork, Ireland. The presentation examined Hamilton College's copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493, to which a Jesuit added anti-Protestant marginalia in 1616.

Sidney Wertimer Professor of Sociology Dan Chambliss recently gave two talks at the meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society in St. Louis —"Strategies of Macro-Teaching" and "Routine Activities, Everyday Life and Health." He also spoke on "The Cascade Strategy: An Approach to Transforming a Department's Intellectual Culture" at the meetings of the American Sociological Association in Anaheim, CA. Chambliss was recently elected to the ASA's Committee on Nominations and serves on the association’s Task Force on Journal Diversity.

While Hamilton students are away this summer, the campus is undergoing some heavy construction. Buildings will be renovated, sprinklers will be added, and the Main Quad and North Road are getting new curbs and being paved.

Hamilton Hockey Coaches Phil Grady and Shannon Bryant host the Girl's Hockey Camp in the Russell Sage Rink.

Naomi Guttman, assistant professor of English at Hamilton College, has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2001 Fellowship. She was among 161 artists chosen from more than 3,200 applicants by a peer panel review process.

Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for $138,125 to support his research on a three-dimensional model of movement planning.

Professor of Government Cheng Li, in commenting on Beijing being awarded the 2008 Olympic Games, predicts that this will lead to China becoming a democracy within the next seven years.

The Fred L. Emerson Foundation, Inc. of Auburn, N.Y., has announced a $500,000 challenge grant to permanently endow student-faculty collaborative programs at Hamilton College. The grant carries with it a one-to-three challenge to Hamilton, meaning the college must raise $1.5 million in order to receive the foundation's full $500,000. Once fully funded, the Emerson Scholars Program will provide grants for approximately 20 students each summer to work closely with a faculty mentor.