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With a plethora of positive experiences working in development, Nick Stagliano ’11 knew that he wanted to go into fundraising after he graduated from Hamilton. Stagliano says that he’s lucky to have found the perfect job—his new position in the development office at The Juilliard School in New York City blends perfectly his passion for fundraising with his love for performance art and higher education.

Katharine Cashman became an expert on Mount St. Helens largely by accident. She isn’t a great geologist, she said during her presentation on April 13 in the Science Center, because she likes studying geologic processes that unfold on a time scale that she can watch. Volcanic activity is one such process, and Cashman, the head of the geosciences department at the University of Oregon, has devoted much of her life to studying the science behind the eruptions of Mount St. Helens.

Students and Hamilton community members across campus geared up on January 17 to increase efforts to protect the planet, as RecycleMania 2010 kicked off for colleges and universities around the globe.

Hamilton student Yinghan Ding ’12 served as a youth representative at the second Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, a conference hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that brought together U.S. and international governors, U.N. officials, senior officials in the Obama Administration and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

On October 1, a new era in Hamilton community service was ushered in with the official opening in the Chapel of Hamilton’s new Community Outreach and Opportunity Project (COOP), a coalition of students and faculty that aims to increase Hamilton’s involvement with community service. The ceremony featured short addresses by staff members involved in COOP, as well as keynote speaker Steve Culbertson '79, president and CEO of Youth Service America, an organization dedicated to increasing availability of service and volunteer projects to young people.

The Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG), launched this semester's campaign to encourage sustainability and raise environmental awareness within the Hamilton community on September 21. The campaign, known as Green Week, was designed both to promote a sense of individual environmental responsibility and to educate students and faculty members to environmental problems on campus that have global implications.

Roger Gottlieb opened his April 22 lecture with a relaxation exercise. He rang a bell, and asked audience members to close their eyes, concentrate on their breathing, and imagine being in a special place in nature with a loved one. He rang the bell again, asked everyone to open their eyes, and said that if anyone at any time in the presentation should grow tired or frustrated or bored, they should close their eyes and return to that place, because that sense of calm and appreciation for nature is the basis of what he tries to teach.

Ethics, because of its objectivity, is an inherently murky subject. It is at times so theoretical and speculative that it can seem to be almost incompatible with economic theory, a very secular and pragmatic field of study. It is this relationship that Norman Bowie examined in his lecture at Hamilton on April 20, titled "Economics, Friend or Foe of Ethics?" Bowie, formerly a member of Hamilton's Philosophy Department in the 1970s, is the Elmer Anderson Chair in Corporate Responsibility and Strategic Management/Organization at the University of Minnesota.

In just over a year, Hamilton College's Trivia Night has exploded to become one of the largest weeknight attractions on campus. Every Tuesday at 8 p.m., dozens of teams, comprised of students and faculty members alike, arrive at the Little Pub to test their knowledge in the hopes of winning gift certificates to the Rio Grande Tex Mex Grill.

For Julie Sze, professor of American studies at the University of California-Davis, the fields of environmental justice and environmental humanities are inextricably tied. It's also important to remember, however, that there are many instances in which the two seem incompatible. Her lecture at Hamilton on March 2 explored the relationship between environmental justice and environmental humanities and their implications in the American sociopolitical structure.