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Ann Owen, associate professor of economics and director of the Levitt Center's Sustainability Program, presented a paper she wrote with economics professors Julio Videras and Stephen Wu at Brown University on Feb. 14. The paper, "More Information Isn't Always Better: The Case of the Voluntary Provision of Environmental Quality" examines how individuals' beliefs about the impact of their actions is related to their behavior.

Derek C. Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has been offered a fellowship from the Charles and Ulla Nyberg Fund, part of the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education, to help support his research on econometric case studies, This award will facilitate his spending part of his sabbatical leave during the 2008-09 academic year at the Helsinki School of Economics as a visiting professor in the economics department.

The opening of a trio of exhibitions on view in the Emerson Gallery was celebrated Feb.12 with a talk by William Earl Williams '73 whose work comprises two of the shows, Celebrating Unsung Heroes and Unsung Places in Photographs and Uncovering the Path to Freedom: Photographs of the Underground Railroad. The black and white photographs illustrate two aspects of African American history: largely unknown Civil War battle sites that involved black soldiers and sites in Central New York significant to the Underground Railroad.

The Buffers, Hamilton's all male a cappella group, continued a Valentine's Day tradition by delivering singing Buffergrams to people all over campus. Sporting their traditional white bucks and blue blazers, the group entertained employees and students with such classics as "Love me Tender," "Cecilia," and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (...I'm Yours)." The group made some 150 "deliveries" on Valentine's Day, starting at 5 a.m. with Buffergrams by phone.

Publishers Weekly has announced that Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has sold a new book titled Climbing the American Mountain to W.W. Norton & Company. According to the publication, "the book will cover the history of mountaineering in America and Americans in mountaineering, from Darby Field's 1642 ascent of Mount Washington in search of diamonds to Ed Viesturs's 2006 climb of Annapurna in Nepal.

Marco Allodi '08, a chemical physics major, has been named to USA Today's 19th annual All-USA College Academic Team third team. Each February, USA Today honors 20 undergraduate academic all-stars as its All-USA College Academic Team, plus 60 students who are selected for the second and third teams and honorable mention. The newspaper recognizes full-time undergraduates who not only excel in scholarship but also extend their intellectual abilities beyond the classroom to benefit society. More than 500 students nationwide are nominated by their colleges.

The lecture by Paul Lieberstein '89 scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 13, has been postponed. Lieberstein, an actor and writer for NBC's "The Office," is stranded in Chicago due to bad weather. The lecture will be rescheduled at a time to be announced later.

David O. Stovall, a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, presented a lecture titled "Real Talk about Race: Dispelling our Common Assumptions with Diversity" on Tuesday, Feb. 12.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo's music will be featured in three upcoming episodes of WCNY radio's program "Fresh Ink," hosted by Neva Pilgrim. The programs, scheduled for February 17, March 30 and April 6, will feature works performed by the Society of New Music at concerts last fall at Syracuse University and Hamilton College.  "Fresh Ink" is a weekly radio program devoted to works of contemporary classical music. It airs every Sunday from 2-3 p.m. on WCNY FM, 91.3.

Six members of the Hamilton College Debate Society attended a tournament at NYU on Feb. 1-2.  One of Hamilton's novice teams (Rouvan Mahmud '11 and Andrew Harris '11) won several awards including first place novice team, first place novice speaker (Harris) and 10th place novice speaker (Mahmud).