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Hamilton was recently mentioned in a Washington Post blog post titled, “Green Graduation Gowns." The post, which is part of the “Campus Overload” blog maintained by Washington Post reporter Jenna Johnson, is about a green initiative by Harper College, which will dress its graduates on commencement day in biodegradable gowns.

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart and Philip Stewart visited the Hamilton College Junior Year in France Program in Paris, France, on a mild spring evening on March 18. They shared their memories of study abroad in France with Resident Director Cheryl Morgan and students currently studying with the Hamilton program.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate gave a lecture titled "Blasphemous Art in a Secular Age" at Lehigh University in March. The lecture stems from his 2006 book Blasphemy: Art that Offends, and offers an argument about the shifting status of blasphemy and blasphemous art, into the modern age. The lecture was sponsored by several departments at Lehigh, including religion, philosophy, art, history and the Lehigh University Art Galleries.

Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, will present “Impact of the Fifth Largest Earthquake in History on a Developed Latin American Country: the February 2010 Concepción ‘Teremoto’” on Thursday, April 8, at 7 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Domack recently returned from Chile where he did volunteer work in the aftermath of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Maule, Chile, on Feb. 27.

Jeffrey Immelt P'10, chairman and CEO of General Electric Company (GE), will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 23, at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Lydia Rono ’11 has been awarded a Davis Peace Project Fellowship program grant of $10,000. Through her project, titled Education for Peace, she hopes to build one secondary school classroom and one rest room in Barekeiwo Village in Kenya, thus qualifying Barekeiwo High School for Kenyan government educational funding. This would supplement the one classroom and one staff room already built by the community.

Chris Hedges’ April 5 lecture encompassed a large range of topics, from the United States’ political system to the economic crisis to global warming. He spoke within the context of large corporations’ overwhelming power over nearly every aspect of culture and society. At times, Hedges’ speech was nearly apocalyptic. And yet, it seems somehow fitting that he began with a description of Michael Jackson’s funeral.

Professor of Communication Catherine Waite Phelan published four poems in the July 2009 issue of Et Cetera: A Review of General Semantics. Her poems, “The Tree’s Song,” “The Implicit Conversation,” “The Source of Words” and “A Child Struggling with Language,” explore the nexus of language and thought. Et Cetera is an interdisciplinary journal published quarterly by the Institute of General Semantics.

Jan Boxill, director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina, will speak on “The Moral Significance of Sport” on Wednesday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Dwight Lounge in the Bristol Campus Center at Hamilton College. The talk is free and open to the public.

Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, presented a work  at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York as part of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in late March. The piece, m45, includes video by Miranda Raimondi '08 and is part of the Selected Nebulae suite of works being shown in the Emerson Gallery until April 18. The program in New York also included a piece, Anagoge, by one of Pellman's former students, Andrew Babcock '99. Babcock is currently completing graduate studies at SUNY Buffalo.