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A new work by Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart – The Enlightenment of age: Women, letters and growing old in eighteenth-century France – has been published by the Voltaire Foundation of the University of Oxford.

Mother Nature cooperated and provided a glorious backdrop to a full weekend of Fallcoming events on the Hill. Highlights included the dedication of the Sadove Student Center at Emerson Hall, recognition of the Alumni All Stars Jazz Band as volunteers of the year, lectures, and musical performances.

An article co-authored by Associate Director of Instructional Technology Support Services Janet Simons was published online in EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine (Volume 33, Number 3, 2010). “The Media Scholarship Project: Strategic Thinking about Media and Multimodal Assignments in the Liberal Arts” presents the results of a study undertaken by Hamilton, Colgate University and St. Lawrence University to “take stock of the ways in which multimodal assignments were being used” on the campuses and to look at “the ways in which such assignments foster interdisciplinary collaboration.”

Carl A. Rubino, Winslow Professor of Classics, delivered a paper titled “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Star Wars and the Ancient World” at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, held in Newark on Oct. 8.  The paper was given at a panel he organized on “Getting In Touch With the Force: the Power of Classical Antiquity in Star Wars, Red River, and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock.”  

Louis Menand, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, gave a lecture titled “What Every College Graduate Needs to Know” as part of Hamilton’s Fallcoming Weekend on Oct. 8 in the Chapel.

Rich Vellante '86, executive chef and executive vice president of restaurants for Legal Seafoods, met with students and discussed “How a Hamilton College Experience Can Craft a Better Cup of Clam Chowder” on Oct. 7 as part of Fallcoming weekend activities. Vellante also visited the Community Farm Garden and 1812 Heritage Garden.

Over the weekend of Oct. 2-3, the College 220 class, “The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondacks,” explored several Adirondack natural sites, visited the historic John Brown’s cabin in North Elba, and took part in a seminar on paddler’s rights during an overnight visit to Camp Wenonah, owned by alumnus James Schoff, ’68.

Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music Samuel Pellman presented ngc 6357, a recent composition with video by Miranda Raimondi '08, in September, to a packed house at the Musikbar Rhiz in Vienna. The event was part of the Kyma International Sound Symposium, which included computer musicians from academic posts and the recording industry in Europe and North America.

Hamilton trustee Rob Morris ’76 was profiled in the October 2010 issue of Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst. Morris, founder and managing director of private equity firm Olympus Partners, sits on the board of Hamilton’s Endowment Fund.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Julie Kruidenier Tolliver '02 presented a paper at the Cold War Cultures conference at the University of Texas, Austin. The conference brought together scholars of different disciplines working on the Cold War era.