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Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a public lecture titled “From Center to Periphery: Regional Culture and Identity in the Ritual Arts of Hunan Province” on Oct. 13, at Bowdoin College. His talk was part of a lecture series in conjunction with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition “Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan.” The exhibition was originally shown at the China Institute in New York City.

The students in Hamilton’s NYC program participated in their first organized cultural outing as a group, visiting the Lyonel Feininger exhibit at the Whitney Museum on New York’s Upper East Side on Oct. 12.

Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States in Baltimore on Oct. 13.  He was featured at a panel on “Reading the Ancient World on Film,” where he gave his paper titled “Wounds That Will Not Heal: Heroism and Innocence in Shane and the Iliad."

U.S. News & World Report singled out Hamilton as one of the colleges that “are breaking tradition while recruiting prospective students” in an article titled “5 New Ways Colleges Are Reaching High School Students” published on Oct. 17. The Huffington Post also published the piece on its website. 

Understanding between individuals forms the basis of productive communication. We rely on mutual understanding in conversation, argumentation and reading. For this reason, it is highly surprising to consider that perhaps no two people can ever understand one another completely.

Glaciologist Richard Alley, a member of the UN climate change committee that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, will present a lecture, “Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise,” on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ian Howat ’99 was among four scientists named by President Obama to receive the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He received the award in a ceremony on Oct. 14 in Washington.

Time for Kids, a a weekly classroom news magazine produced by TIME Inc. that covers “a wide range of real-world topics,” focused its Sept. 30 issue on monarch butterflies. Professor of Biology Ernest Williams was quoted extensively throughout the two lead articles that also referenced his recently published study on the decline of monarchs.

Students in the Semester in Washington Program met with U.S. Representative Richard Hanna of New York’s 24th District on Oct. 12. Rep. Hanna fielded a variety of questions from the group about his experiences as a new member of the House of Representatives and about the issues confronting the 112th Congress.

Kenyon Farrow, former executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, will deliver the Coming Out Month keynote address titled “Is Gay the New Black?” on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The event is free and open to the public.