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The DownBeat Keys, a Brooklyn-based hip-hop band featuring five Hamilton College alumni, will open for Jon Bon Jovi and The Kings of Suburbia on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the Best Buy Theater in New York.

The Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership presents a performance of Temptation of the Muses by the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and the Ahn Trio on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall. This performance is a collaboration between choreographer Nai-Ni Chen and the Ahn Trio, who provide live music onstage.

Paul Cawood Hellmund of the Conway School, a graduate program in sustainable planning and design in Massachusetts, visited Hamilton on Oct. 17 to lecture on his experience creating and sustaining greenways for the Levitt Center’s Sustainability series. He co-edited the widely acclaimed Ecology of Greenways, which received a national award from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Mark Winne P'00, food policy specialist and author, delivered a lecture to the Hamilton community on Oct. 17. Winne drew on themes from his books Food Rebels and Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas, exploring the challenges people face both nationally and globally in our ability to control the food we eat and to participate fully in the crafting of food policy.

Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, published an article titled “Population Loss and Gain in the Rare Butterfly Euphydryas gillettii (Nymphalidae)” in Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society (66:147-155).  This study revealed some of the effects of climate change on living organisms.

The 11th Annual Hamilton College Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 21, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on the Clinton Village Green. Fall Fest is an initiative that was started in 2002 by the Hamilton Class of 2005 to reach out and join with the local community for an afternoon of food, fun activities and entertainment.

On Feb. 26, 2012, an unarmed 17-year-old African American man named Trayvon Martin was fatally shot in Sanford, Fla. At the time the case did not attract much media attention, though it has since become of the most covered news stories of 2012. Daniel Maree, a senior digital strategist for advertising agency McCann New York, sparked a massive movement and mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to show their support for the Martin family and for racial equality generally. He spoke at Hamilton on Oct. 17 about his vision for the younger generation’s potential to create change in the world.

Hamilton’s state-of-the art fitness center just got a bit more hi-tech with the replacement of 50 pieces of exercise equipment.  The Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center was closed during last week’s fall recess in order to remove the old machines and bring in and install the new equipment.

Ben Salzman '14 and Professor of Music Samuel Pellman recently presented a new work, Selected Galaxies: Spirals, at the  Kyma International Sound Symposium, hosted by St. Cloud State University, in Minnesota. 

Princeton University Professor Caryl Emerson will deliver the Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Emerson is a professor of comparative literature and the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton.  The lecture, part of the Humanities Forum, is titled “Eugene Onegin the Play:  Pushkin, Prokofiev, and the Stalinist Stage.” It is free and open to the public.