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Fire on the Mountain, a documentary film about the U.S. Army’s Tenth Mountain Division in World War II, will be shown on Thursday, March 30, at 8 p.m. in Hamilton College’s Kirner-Johnson Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The film will be followed by a discussion with Hamilton history professor Maurice Isserman, Hamilton geosciences professor Todd Rayne, Director of Adventure Programs Andrew Jillings and Donald B. Potter, Hamilton emeritus geology professor and World War II veteran and member of the 10th Mountain Division. The program is free and open to the public.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Brian J. Glenn recently hosted a conference with Steve Teles at the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University. Glenn is co-editing a forthcoming book with Teles, who, coincidentally, was also once a visiting faculty member in the Hamilton government department.  The conference was focused on their book, Conservatives and American Political Development, which follows the role of conservatives in the development of environmental, education and Social Security policy.

Associate Dean of Students for Diversity Berenecea Johnson spoke on "New Inspiration for the Nation," a program broadcast on WPHR Power 106.9 FM in Auburn, N.Y. on Sunday, March 12. She addressed "What are the factors that affect the academic success of African American students in high school and beyond?"   

Joey Campanella '08, Benjamin Critton ’06, Sarah Felder '07 and Liz Herring ’08 have work included in the "Speak Out" art exhibition at the Utica Library, which is located at 303 Genessee Street. This regional juried college student art exhibition includes work from students from Hamilton College, Colgate University, Syracuse University and Pratt at Munson William Proctor. The exhibition will close on March 31, 2006.

Hamilton College has made permanent its five-year experiment that allows students to choose which standardized tests to submit as part of their application for admission.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Brookings Institution senior fellow, was quoted on the front page of The New York Times in an article titled "China Attacks Its Woes With an Old Party Ritual," on Wednesday, March 9. Li discussed the efforts to rebuild grass-roots party organizations that have been falling apart in an article written by the Times Beijing bureau chief. The same article was also printed in the International Herald Tribune.

Douglas Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology, attended the Project Kaleidoscope Conference at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 3-5. Project Kaleidoscope or PKAL is an organization that advocates for building and sustaining strong undergraduate programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). PKAL focuses on building learning environments that attract and sustain undergraduate students in the study of STEM fields and motivate them to consider careers in related fields.

"SHOW TITLE HERE," the Hamilton College art faculty exhibition, will open Thursday, January 26, in the Emerson Gallery with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. There will also be three artist talks during February, each from noon to 1 p.m. in the gallery, beginning with Ella Gant and Rebecca Murtaugh on Wednesday, Feb. 1, followed by Sylvia de Swaan and Barry Gerson on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Bruce Muirhead and Joy Powell on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The show includes work by these artists as well as by Bill Salzillo, chair of the art department and curator of the Hamilton Collects Program. The show is open through April 15. The lectures and exhibition are free and open to the public.

More than 50 prints, drawings and illustrated books by the British artist and humorist Thomas Rowlandson (1756 – 1827) will be on display in Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery in an exhibition opening on Friday, Feb. 10. These works are on loan to the Emerson from the extensive collection of Rowlandson's work in the Print Department of the Boston Public Library. The show, titled "Humor & Humanity: Through the Eyes of Thomas Rowlandson," will be open through April 15 and is free and open to the public.

Edward S. Walker, Jr., former United States Ambassador and current president of the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank on Middle East Policy, has been appointed to the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professorship in Global Political Theory. Ambassador Walker, a 1962 Hamilton graduate, served as the Linowitz Professor of Middle East Studies in 2003 and 2005.