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Scott MacDonald was a featured guest of the Cinema Project in Portland, Ore., on October 15-17. He participated in a public interview with Todd Haynes (director of Far from Heaven, I'm Not There, Safe...) at the Portland Museum of Art, focusing on Haynes' roots in avant-garde and experimental cinema; and he presented two programs of films by the men and women who established Canyon Cinema, the exhibition/distribution organization that is the focus of MacDonald's recent book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times. 

The Observer-Dispatch's special section on the history of Oneida County quoted Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government, in two stories, one about the history of Sherrill and another about a U.S. vice president from Utica, on Tuesday, Oct. 14.

Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judy Owens-Manley and Moises Toledano '10, a student in Owens-Manley's Seminar in Program Evaluation course, presented a poster session at the Imagining America conference in Los Angeles Oct. 2 - 4.

With the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize winners, Hamilton recalls two of its own alumni Nobel laureates. Elihu Root won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912, and Paul Greengard won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2000. Alumnus Jonathan Overpeck '79 was one of 33 lead authors on the report of the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Gore.

An Associated Press article focused on "the latest of several efforts by academics to lend analytical rigor to an emotional debate," whether college faculty impose their views on students, referenced an earlier study conducted by Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Xavier University professor Mack Mariani.

David Paris, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Government at Hamilton, was quoted in an InsideHigherEd article, "Spreading the Gospel on Student Learning," about a meeting of researchers, foundation leaders and association presidents who are true believers in the value of assessing the quality of student learning in liberal education.

An article written by Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen and Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen titled "Social Learning and Course Choice" was published in volume 7, issue 1, 2008 of the International Review of Economics Education (IREE). Owen and Jensen used a broad sample of students to examine the course selection process and to find evidence of social learning from peers.

Last weekend, the goal of the Hamilton Outing Club was to have a member of the Hamilton community reach the summit of each of the Adirondacks' 46 High Peaks. While the group of students and community members didn't ascend all 46, they came quite close, conquering 41 peaks. This total surpasses the record 38 peaks climbed in a previous High Peak weekend outing.

The art department celebrated the opening celebration of the newly refurbished Dunham Senior Art Studio on Wednesday, Oct. 8. The studio was painted and divided into individual work spaces for painting and photography majors. The event was attended by President Joan Stewart and Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo, art students and  the art faculty.

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer was quoted in a TIME magazine online article on Wednesday, Oct. 8, that addressed the effect of the current financial crisis on higher education. In "Colleges Getting Hit by the Credit Crunch," Hamilton was credited as having planned ahead "to accommodate a growing number of college students ... [that] will allow the university to maintain its full financial aid program."