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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.

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.

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation recently awarded the Hamilton College Arboretum a $5,000 grant through the Zoos, Botanical Gardens & Aquariums Program for operating expenses. The award will be directed primarily toward for the maintenance and expansion of the arboretum collection with an immediate focus on protecting notable trees.

In reviewing "Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950" by Glenda Gilmore in the Sunday, Feb. 10, edition of The New York Times, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, summarized the book as "an exercise in radical antiquarianism, a series of disparate essays built around interesting personalities, the whole rather less than the sum of its parts."

Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, has been interviewed and quoted recently by several media outlets including The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times political blog about Super Tuesday and future primary elections and caucuses.

Dan Nye, CEO of the social and professional Internet networking site LinkedIn, will present "Social Networking: The Next Generation" at Hamilton. Nye, a 1988 graduate of Hamilton College, will speak on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. * Please note this is a change of location.

A group of Hamilton College faculty and administrators presented a case study exercise at the Collaborative Pedagogy and Instructional Design Session of the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) held in Southbridge, Mass., on Jan. 25. James Helmer, director of the Oral Communication Center; Lynn Mayo, reference librarian; Sharon Werning Rivera, assistant professor of government; and Janet Simons, instructional technology specialist, discussed the election campaign simulation used in Rivera's comparative politics course and helped participants design personalized course projects.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey recently received a grant award from Microsoft Corporation's research division for the development of a new computer security course titled Secrets, Lies, and Digital Threats. The course will provide background information on computer security issues for future leaders, including those who will shape public technology policy, to understand the nature of security threats and how they can be expected to evolve in the future.

Hamilton has exceeded its $175 million capital campaign goal six months before the fundraising effort is scheduled to conclude. "Excelsior: The Campaign for Hamilton" reached this goal in the last week of December 2007. The campaign will continue through its planned close on June 30.

The Emerson Gallery hosted a gallery conversation with artist and Haverford College professor William E. Williams '73 and the curatorial team of Uncovering the Past to Freedom, one of the gallery's three current exhibitions on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The exhibition's curatorial team included Katerina Adair '10, Ilana Carlin '09, Sophia Franck '08, Associate Professor of Art History Deborah Pokinski and Associate Director and Curator Susanna White.