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Tina May Hall, associate professor of English and winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, opened the 2010-11 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series (PCWS) with a reading on Sept. 29, at the University of Pittsburgh. The PCWS presents creative writing as an intellectual endeavor, bringing notable contemporary writers of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction to the campus.

Members of the cast and crew of the Theatre Department's fall production of Slaughter City recently traveled with Professor of Theatre Carole Bellini-Sharp and lighting designer David Stoughton to Purdy and Sons Food Inc., a meat packing plant in nearby Sherburne, N.Y. Slaughter City by Naomi Wallace is a drama based on real-life conditions in a modern day Southern slaughterhouse.

Pollster John Zogby doesn’t know what will happen in the upcoming midterm election. And he’s not afraid to admit it.

The Hamilton Performing Arts Classical Connections series presents the American Brass Quintet on Friday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. The program will feature works from the classical brass repertoire ranging from the 16th to 20th centuries.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury was part of a science team that supported NASA’s 2010 Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) project in September in Flagstaff, Az. One of the aims of the mission was to conduct two weeks of geologic field work simulating lunar operations in order to test various data collection and communications scenarios.

Look into Hamilton’s List Art Center from the outside and you’ll see what appears to be a burly man slumped over in a chair. Although he’s bundled up in winter clothes, he’s not about to go on a ski trip. His name is “Junior,” Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cindy Tower’s handmade dummy. This fall, Tower is having students in her Introduction to Drawing class build and decorate their own dummies – a project that Tower calls an exercise in sustainability and community.

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Associate Professor of History Chad Williams is the author of a new book, Torchbearers of Democracy, published by The University of North Carolina Press (Oct., 2010).

Utica native and pollster John Zogby will give a lecture on a wide range of political issues, particularly his predictions in the mid-term elections, on Thursday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m., in Hamilton’s Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Hamilton College Republicans, Hamilton College Democrats, and HamPoll.

Members of Hamilton's ecology class, Biology 237, made the annual trek to Whiteface Mountain to study responses of the vegetation to environmental conditions on Sept. 26. The high Adirondacks were at peak color, so the trip was a great success aesthetically as well as scientifically.