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On the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) published an opinion piece titled "Iraq of '08 eerily like Vietnam of '68" written by Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Albany Professor of English Thomas Bass. As the title suggests, Isserman and Bass compare the official reports on the status of the war in Vietnam in 1968 to the war in Iraq in 2008 and suggest that the situation in Iraq is far less stable than the administration would have the nation believe.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article titled "Fed's tough call: how far to cut interest rates" on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The article discussed the choices faced by the Fed in determining what might stimulate the economy.

Hamilton has received a four-year grant totaling $800,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create five postdoctoral fellowship positions in the arts and humanities.

A one-hour documentary titled "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism" and produced locally by WCNY will be shown for the first time on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 9 p.m. Included in the documentary footage are shots of the recent Emerson Gallery exhibition "The Best Kind of Life: Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist" as well as images of the Root Glen and the Root homestead.

Eric Kuhn '09 was interviewed for and featured in an Associated Press article titled "Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars" released on Tuesday, Jan. 22. He was subsequently contacted by KPCC public radio in Pasadena, California, to participate in a live half-hour interview on the topic. He was joined on air with Washington Post technology writer Mike Musgrove on Friday, Jan. 25.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has penned an examination of several memoirs written by members of the 1960s radical campus groups, the Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).  "Weather Reports" appears in the Feb. 11 issue of The Nation and was posted on the publication's Web site on Jan. 24,

The Chronicle of Higher Education, in its Jan. 25 issue, featured an article,"In One Writing Course, Freshmen Take After Lewis and Clark," about Hamilton's "Adventure Writing" course taught by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman last semester.

In a recent Gannett News Service wire story, "Demystifying the presidential nomination process," Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, was interviewed as part of a comprehensive explanation of the process by which the nation's two major parties select their presidential nominees.

Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan, Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead and alumnus Jake Muirhead '86 are exhibiting their work at the Delavan Art Gallery in Syracuse in a show titled "The Artistic Domain." The Delavan Gallery will host a reception for the exhibition's opening, on Thursday, Jan. 24, from 5 - 8 p.m.

Scott MacDonald's essay on two recent films by James Benning, "James Benning's Thirteen Lakes and 10 Skies and the Culture of Distraction," has just been published in James Benning, a collection of essays published by the Austrian Film Museum on the occasion of a major retrospective of Benning's work. An interview conducted by MacDonald with David Gatten, "Gentle Iconoclast," has just been published in Film Quarterly (Winter 2007-08).