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The results are in and the sculptors from the Science Center are the winners of the weekend’s snowperson building contest. The Science Center builders earned a pizza party with their assortment of impressive snow sculptures, including a sea turtle, a mastodon, a brain, a volcano, and a lab technician.

The United States has occupied Afghanistan since October of 2001, when the U.S. and Great Britain launched an offensive against the Taliban in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. In the eight years that the conflict has endured, the U. S. has made relatively little progress in establishing social or political order. In the March 1 panel discussion, “The Way Forward in Afghanistan,” experts debated the current situation in Afghanistan and the ways in which the United States military could improve its handling of the conflict.

On February 11, Hamilton alumnus George Mack ’92, a managing director at Barclay’s Capital graciously made himself available for students in the New York City Program. The class was curious as to the origins of the great recession.

The Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Auction will take place on Thursday, March 4, in the Annex/Tolles Pavilion. This annual fundraiser will help support the 100 Hamilton students participating in nine ASB trips this year. The silent auction will go from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and the live auction will begin at 5 p.m. Free Tex Mex will be served at around 4 p.m. Come bid on lobsters, reserved Commencement seats, a one week vacation, paintings, gift certificates to area restaurants, shops and spas, among many other great items.

Amos Kiewe, professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, presented his lecture “Crisis: A Rhetorical Entity,” on March 2 in the Fillius Events Barn. It was part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series, "Crisis: Danger and Opportunity."

Jose Casanova, professor of sociology at Georgetown University, will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, March 4, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. His talk is titled “Exploring the Post-Secular: Three Meanings of ‘the Secular’ and Their Possible Transcendence.” The event is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran was an editor on the latest revision of William Hughes’s Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills. The sixth edition of the book was published in January by Broadview Press.

With the help of 18 metal spikes sticking out of their hands and feet, Hamilton students scaled 30-foot frozen waterfalls last weekend.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented a colloquium at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Center for Communication Research, in Princeton, N.J., in February.

Amos Kiewe, professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, will present a lecture titled "Crisis: A Rhetorical Entity," on Tuesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. His talk is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center series “Crisis: Danger and Opportunity.” All lectures are free and open to the public.