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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).

Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory Edward S. Walker, Jr. '62 has participated in numerous interviews and panel discussions in the last few months related to U.S. relations with the Middle East.

An opinion piece written by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman titled "The higher summit in Sir Edmund Hillary's life" appears in the Monday, Jan. 14, issue of The Christian Science Monitor. Isserman's piece focuses on Hillary's enormous philanthropic contributions to Nepal after his successful climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

Hamilton alumnus David Grubin '65, a producer, writer and cinematographer who received an honorary degree from Hamilton in 2003, has written and directed a three-part documentary, The Jewish Americans, which is airing this month on public television stations nationwide. The first segment will air in Central New York on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 10 p.m. on WCNY.