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The Megachurch and the Mainline: Cultural Innovation, Change, and Conflict in Mainline Protestant Congregations, a book written by Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson, was awarded the 2007 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the organization's annual meeting in Tampa.

"Six Secrets for a Great Internship," a video taped in Los Angeles last summer by Eric Kuhn '09, is the featured video on MSN's video homepage. Kuhn has worked as an intern for NBC, MSNBC and CBS. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post, mediabistro.com and U-Wire.

"The Flower in the Gun Barrel," an essay written by Professor of History Maurice Isserman, will be featured on PBS' BILL MOYERS JOURNAL. Airing locally on Friday, Nov. 2, at 10:30 p.m. on WCNY/ channel 24, the program includes a segment on the 40th anniversary of the March on the Pentagon in which Isserman participated.

A.G. Lafley '69, chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble Co. and a charter trustee of Hamilton College, addressed the Hamilton College Wall Street Association on Thursday, Nov. 1. Close to 200 alumni, trustees, parents and friends joined Hamilton President Joan Stewart at the University Club in New York City. This is the fourth Wall Street Association event. Lafley made brief remarks about his career at Procter & Gamble Co. and his experiences at Hamilton, Harvard Business School and in the United States Navy. He went on to field questions from the audience on a wide-range of personal and business experiences.

Hamilton College has created a community group on LinkedIn, a professional networking site with 15 million members that is built on social-networking concepts and principles. This group is open to all students, alumni, parents of current and former students and current and former faculty and staff. It has been established to provide Hamilton members with a simple yet powerful means to connect and network with each other and share their wider professional connections with a Hamilton audience. The more individuals who join the group, the more robust it will be.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a lecture titled "Triangulating the Framing of East-West Engagement: Introducing the Art and Culture of the Warlpiri Aborigines into the Equation" at the 2007 New York Conference on Asian Studies - Decentering Asia at SUNY Binghamton on Oct. 27. His paper argued for the importance of cross-cultural comparative studies while destabilizing the customary "dualistic global usage" of East-West opposition.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen participated in a conference focused on the role of the economics major in a liberal education at the invitation of the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education. Along with nine other economists from both public and private research universities and liberal arts colleges, Owen discussed ways in which economics can be taught that increase the potential for economics to contribute to a liberal education.

Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan has been appointed to the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists' Fellowship Advisory Committee in the category of photography. NYFA gives more support to artists and arts organizations in all disciplines than any other private organization in the country, according to the NYFA Web site.

In "London Stole My TV," Eric Kuhn '09, who is studying at the London School of Economics for the year, wrote in a Huffington Post blog about the challenges in following U.S. news and media while abroad. Using an iPod, iTunes, the Internet and YouTube, he has been able to replicate both the noise and the news he once absorbed via television and Netflix.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented a paper titled "Inequality, Trust and the size of the cooperative sector: cross country evidence" at the First International Conference on the Social Economy in Victoria, Canada, on Wednesday, Oct. 24. The paper details the first, albeit preliminary, empirical evidence on the determinants of differences in the size of the cooperative sector around the world.