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Hamilton College Performing Arts Classical Connections presents award-winning Aviv String Quartet on Friday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall on the Hamilton campus.

Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting in New York City in The Other End of the Line, a major public art installation addressing the connections and differences between the cultures of upstate New York and New York City. Inspired by the freight train High Line's history of transporting goods from upstate New York into New York City, Francis Cape will transport a previously-occupied residential trailer from Sullivan County, N.Y., to Gansevoort Plaza under the High Line.

The 2010 Lake, Stream and Watershed Issues Conference is being hosted and co-sponsored by Hamilton on Friday, Oct. 22, in the Fillius Events Barn. Associate Professor of Geosciences Todd Rayne will discuss the influence of surface water on municipal groundwater supply systems. Other speakers include individuals from Honeywell International, U.S. Geological Survey, SUNY-ESF, Natural Systems Engineering and Cornell University.

The Hamilton community and the college’s Entrepreneurship Club were at the center of a New York Times article titled “In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks” in which the college was described as “a poster-perfect liberal arts school.” Focused on the cost of textbooks, the article highlighted the club’s successful efforts to create getmytextbooks.org, a site on which students can sell or rent their textbooks to other students while effectively eliminating costs associated with middlemen.

The 15 students in the Hamilton Program in New York recently visited with Rob Morris, '76, his wife MaryHelen and two of their children at their home in Riverside, Conn.  After a pleasant meal, Morris, who is the founder and managing partner of Olympus Partners, a private equity fund based in Stamford, Conn., discussed the activities of his firm.

The Young People’s Project (YPP) at Hamilton College was featured in the Posse Foundation’s summer 2010 newsletter.

Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study enigmatic domes and basins in the bedrock of the Western Desert of Egypt. The structures occur in remote areas and have been largely unrecognized and unstudied. Recent high resolution satellite imagery has made it possible to study these structures.

Jennifer Murphy Hill '87 hosted the launch of President Joan Hinde Stewart's book, The Enlightenment of Age, at an event attended by alumni, parents and Hamilton students studying in London  on Sept. 27 at the Royal Automobile Club.

The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium has received a $600,000, three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support collaborative programs in the areas of library collections, information technology, faculty and student development, and diversity.

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio in Albany will feature a reading by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate on Tuesday, Oct. 19, as part of the public radio station’s Academic Minute. The new program airs each weekday at 7:37 a.m. and 3:56 p.m. on 90.3 FM in the Clinton area. Plate’s topic addresses the persistence of myth.