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Economics lecturer Nesecan Balkan and Gwyn Kirk, a former Jane Watson Irwin Chair in Women’s Studies (1999 – 2001), traveled in El Salvador during spring break to observe sustainability projects. They are researching sustainable development in Central America with a focus on El Salvador, a country characterized by great inequality, legacies of colonization, militarism and war; environmental devastation; and the privatization of resources, especially water.

Sylvia de Swaan presented a slide talk about her work at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, N.Y., on Wednesday April 4, as the community service component of her 2006 photography fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her presentation, which was free and open to the public, included selections from her work of the last 15 years. She placed special emphasis on her ongoing project "Sub-version," which on a range of contemporary issues - terror, surveillance, mass media, post millennial anxiety, dual realities, shadowy threats and ominous rumors.

Phoebe Potter ’09 published a summary of the event “Moving Toward a Free Cuba” on the American Enterprise Institute’s web site with another intern from the University of Kansas, Gregory Trum Jr. The article summarized speeches regarding Cuba’s future after Fidel Castro dies.

Eric Kuhn ’09 presented a lecture in March in Washington, D.C. to students participating in “Year Up,” a program that provides urban young adults 18-24, with a combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship opportunities. Kuhn’s presentation was on new media and how the history of journalism has evolved with blogs, YouTube and citizen journalists playing a larger role than ever in effecting the 2008 political campaign. Kuhn integrated real life stories based on his experience working for WHCL 88.7 FM and the Spectator to talk about citizen journalism.

Randy Albelda, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, will speak about "Gender Inequality in the Labor Market" on March 29. This lecture is part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series titled “Inequality and Equity” and is free and open to the public.

Editor's Note: Many major news outlets have covered this announcement. Here are links to stories that appeared in USA Today, InsideHigherEd.com and Boston Globe. Hamilton College will no longer offer merit scholarships, beginning with the first-year class that enrolls in the fall of 2008. "We are discontinuing our merit scholarship program so that we can provide more need-based aid," said Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer. "We believe we are the first college or university in the U.S. to abandon its merit scholarship program."

In a March 15 article in the The Oregonian, History professor Maurice Isserman, a Reed College SDS member during the late 1960s, commented on the recent efforts to revive the organization.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was interviewed this month by both the Associated Press and Reuters for news stories related to shifts in Chinese leadership and military spending.

Research by Professor of Geosciences Cynthia Domack and Associate Professor of Geosciences Todd Rayne was presented at the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America by their Hamilton College student co-authors.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, was interviewed for a live broadcast on WHRO's public radio show "HearSay" on March 5. The program, titled "From the headlines -- Field of Dreams?," addressed the diversity within the presidential field.