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Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino was invited to make two presentations at the University of South Carolina. On Feb. 10 he led a workshop for the University's Classics and Contemporary Perspectives group on "Horace, Odes 4.1: The Voices of Silence," and on Feb. 11 he gave a public lecture titled “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age.”

This year’s FebFest will feature something that few in recent years have had -- snow! Hamilton’s annual winter carnival, FebFest, will take place on Feb. 12-19 on campus. Many events are free and others require a $5 button that can be purchased in Beinecke or at each event.

The Hamilton College  Choir, under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, mounted an elaborate production of Grand Hotel as its spring musical, Feb. 4-6, in Wellin Hall. Set in an elegant Berlin hotel in 1928, Grand Hotel recounts the intersecting lives of eccentric hotel guests. The world is between wars, the stock market is booming, Berlin is the center of high life, and optimism rules the day.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson published a short story, "What You Don't Know," in the current issue of Short Story, a joint publication of the University of Texas, SUNY-Oneonta, and Claflin University.

American realist painter Vincent Desiderio will speak at Hamilton  on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. His lecture is sponsored by the Art Department's Visiting Artists series and it is free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, associate professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, will lecture on Monday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture, titled "How We Begin: The Origins and Consequences of Fetal Personhood," is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton presented a poster at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology held in San Antonio on Jan. 29-30. Her poster was titled “Level and Contingency of Self-Esteem Predict Thought Suppression, Rumination, and Self-Reflection.”

Four physics majors - Anne Vilsoet '11, Sarah Fobes '12, Erin Bessette-Kirton '12 and Eliza Jonathan '13 - attended the the fourth annual Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, held Jan. 14 – 16 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Vilsoet and Fobes both presented posters based on research they did at Hamilton. Vilsoet's poster was titled "Simulating Type Ia Supernovae Rise-Time Curves" and Fobes presented "Porosity Reduction in rare earth doped sol-gel glasses."

Hamilton College will open today, Feb. 2, at 10 a.m. due to snow and ice conditions. Classes that begin at 9 a.m. have been cancelled. Exercise caution when driving to campus.

A group of sophomores had the opportunity to spend time observing jobs that interest them, thanks to the Career Center’s inaugural career shadowing program, HamiltonExplore.