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In an opinion piece that appeared on Saturday, Sept. 22, in Utica's Observer-Dispatch titled "Warmer world could mean shorter winters for region," Professor of Biology Ernest Williams explained what the economic effects of global warming might mean for central New York.

Hamilton's English Department is sponsoring a James Joyce Symposium on Saturday, Sept. 29, in celebration of English Professor Austin Briggs’ 50 years of teaching. Briggs is an expert on Irish writer/poet James Joyce, the author of the novel Ulysses. The symposium will feature four panel discussions with Joyce experts from all over the U.S. All sessions will take place in the Red Pit in Kirner-Johnson and are open to the community.

Nikki Reynolds, director of Instructional Technology Support Services, and Susan Mason, director of the Oral Communication Center and of the Education Studies Program, presented at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Conference in September at Middlebury College. Their presentation, “Seeding a TaLC: Hamilton College’s Collaborative Initiatives in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," addressed Hamilton’s approach to the integration of academic resources offered by Instructional Technology, the reference librarians and the Oral Communication Center and Lab. 

Eric Kuhn '09 interviewed CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer on the set of Cramer's “College Tour” at the University of Southern California (USC) this month. Kuhn’s interview will air on the season premiere of “TAKE 5,” USC’s premier entertainment show, on Friday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m. EDT and 11 p.m. EDT on USC's television station “Trojan Vision.” The show will also be streamed online at www.trojanvision.com, on Los Angeles public access Channel 36, the Open Student Television Network and UWire.

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera published “Unikal’nyi put’ Rossii? Obzor politicheskikh elit” [“A Unique Path for Russia? A Survey of Political Elites”], in A. D. Shutov, Uchenye zapiski 2006 (Moscow: Nauchnaya kniga, 2006), which is a publication of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In it, she presents data from an original survey of Russian elites to show that despite the public rhetoric about Russia’s uniqueness, a substantial number of Russian leaders are willing to borrow from foreign experience, particularly from models of European welfare capitalism.

Hamilton College performed the first test of a campus-wide emergency communication system on Thursday. The system delivered a test voice message to campus landline phones, student, faculty, administrator and staff cell phones and faculty, administrator and staff home telephones. It also sent an e-mail message to the entire campus community.

Students gathered outside of Commons Dining Hall on September 21 to show their support for the Jena Six, the six African-American high school students accused of beating a white classmate in Jena, La., in 2006.  The Black Student Union urged participants to wear black t-shirts and BSU members collected signatures of support on an online petition and distributed information about the Jena Six case.

Conrad Anker, renowned climber and author of The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest, will present a talk by the same title on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in K-J Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.

This fall, a group of five Hamilton Students will begin their work as the second group of Bonner Leaders at Hamilton College. Bonner Leaders is a program of the Bonner Foundation, committed to "intentional opportunities for students to develop as thoughtful, engaged citizens of our national and global community." The five Hamilton sophomores include Robyn Gibson, Kidecia King, Mariam Ballout, Stephanie Tafur and Leide Cabral. Each student was placed with a different community organization where they will engage in individual projects that promote the objectives of the Bonner Foundation.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was interviewed for a Minnesota Public Radio look back at the “Summer of Love,” the summer of 1967. “Midmorning” host Kerri Miller spoke with both Isserman and San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin about the music, protests, social upheaval, the influence of earlier events in the ’50s and ’60s and the fusion of black and white culture during that summer.