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The Richard W. Couper Press published the first issue of American Communal Societies Quarterly (ACSQ) in January 2007. The Couper Press, the publishing arm of the Hamilton College Burke Library, will publish the ACSQ in January, April, July, and October of every year.

Ken Herold, director of library information systems, participated in a 2003-2005 mapping study, "Knowledge Map of Information Science," a Critical Delphi study with an interdisciplinary panel composed of 57 leading scholars from 16 countries. Results have recently been published at www.success.co.il/is/index.html summarizing the findings of the study, an investigation of the theoretical foundations of the field.

Two West Point cadets accompanied by West Point Judge Advocate Corps Department of Law Professor Major John Dehn participated in the Hamilton College Washington D.C. program’s class on Feb. 28.

William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, has made several presentations recently, traveling across the country to various venues. On Feb. 23, Li spoke at Florida Gulf Coast University on the school’s public radio atation, WGCU. He addressed the complex issues facing China now and in the future. On Feb. 27, Li traveled to Naples, Florida, to present two talks to 1,500 enthusiastic members of the Naples Council on World Affairs.

A transcript of sophomore Eric Kuhn's interview with Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield on WHCL Radio 88.7 FM was published on MSNBC.com on Friday, Feb. 22. The interview was featured on "Give and Take," a section of MSNBC.com devoted to charity news. Kuhn spoke with Greenfield about the Ben & Jerry's Foundation, the charitable arm of the company, and the importance of responsible business practices.

Research performed by Eugene Domack, Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies, and his students during a recent expedition to Antarctica is highlighted in the National Science Foundation’s 2006 annual report along with a photograph taken by geosciences technician Dave Tewksbury.

An article titled “How Old is the New SDS?” by history professor Maurice Isserman appears in the March 2 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Chronicle Review. Isserman discussed the history of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organization in the 60s and compared the new incarnation of the organization with that of the previous era. He suggested that the current generation might be better off shifting its focus away from the past.

The Diversity and Social Justice Project and the Dean of Faculty sponsored a visit and talk on Feb. 20 by three men who were among the 3,800 “Lost Boys of Sudan” resettled in the United States after being orphaned during the Sudanese civil war. Dut Deng, Machar Majok and Majer Anyang, along with thousands of other young Sudanese boys, were forced to flee their homes and live as refugees in the late 1980s during the conflict and were eventually resettled in Syracuse, N.Y. Deng spoke about the struggles of the Lost Boys, his gratitude to those who brought him to America, and his hopes for further American attention directed towards Sudan.

Soggy, the word that best described last year’s Febfest, was not applicable to Febfest 2007. In a case of feast or famine, with more than three feet of snow over a five-day period, the campus had too much snow to allow for several Febfest events, and classes were cancelled for a day and a half.

As members of a panel sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) at the National Press Club, Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren and neuroscience major Kateri Whitebean ’08 spoke on the value of undergraduate research. The event, held on Feb. 21, was organized to spark a national conversation on the topic by introducing CUR's new publication, Developing and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices. Elgren and Kerry Karukstis, professor of chemistry at Harvey Mudd College who was also a presenter, co-edited the volume.