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The Levitt Center will present a faculty panel, The Financial Crisis, on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center G027. Panelists will include Erol Balkan, economics; James Bradfield, economics; Alan Cafruny, government; and Ann Owen, economics.  Director of the Levitt Center Jeff Pliskin, economics, will serve as moderator.  The discussion will be streamed live on the Web and the event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College English Department Fall Reading series will welcome poets Philip Memmer and Georgia Popoff, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.

Catherine Murphy, an observation painter and faculty member at Yale University, will lecture at Hamilton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 4:15 p.m in the Kirner-Johnson Building, room 125. It is free and open to the public.

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) announced on Oct. 20 that David Hess '77, currently president of Hamilton Sundstrand, will succeed Stephen Finger as president of Pratt & Whitney on Jan. 1, 2009, when Finger retires.

Steven Bellona, associate vice president for facilities and planning at Hamilton College, was inducted into the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame on Oct. 2 at the Officer's Club at the Academy in New London, Conn. Bellona is a retired Coast Guard captain. He received a plaque from Rear Admiral J. Scott Burhoe, superintendant of the Academy and Dr. Ray Cieplik, director of athletics at the Academy.

Twenty-one Hamilton students were inducted into Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology, on Oct. 14. Psi Chi was founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. The Hamilton College chapter was established in 1977.

A comparative politics textbook co-authored by government professors Steven Orvis and Carol Drogus has recently by published by CQ Press.  The book, Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context, is an innovative hybrid approach to the field of comparative politics.  The book is organized thematically around important concepts in comparative politics; in turn, each chapter is framed by the questions of who rules?, what motivates political behavior?, and where and why? Then, within each chapter, the authors have integrated a set of extended case studies based on a selection of 10 "core" countries. 

Members of the Hamilton community who don't have a car on campus will be wheel-less no more, thanks to the arrival of Zipcar on the Hill. Zipcar, the world's largest provider of cars on demand by the hour or day, will begin its service at Hamilton this week, as an environmentally friendly alternative to the costs and hassles of keeping a car on campus. The partnership continues Hamilton's commitment to invest in sustainable solutions on campus and marks Zipcar's entry into Clinton, bringing its operations to more than 50 cities, including London, England, and 28 North American states and provinces. 

Rachel Richardson, a senior creative writing major at Hamilton, has published a short story, "Trapeze," in The Minnesota Review, a long-established, nationally distributed literary journal published by Carnegie Mellon University. Associate Professor of  English Doran Larson notes, "Not only is it a rare achievement for an undergraduate to publish so prominently, "Trapeze" is the lead story in the issue -- an honor for any writer."

The Dean's Faculty Lecture Series kicked off the spring semester on Feb. 28, with a lecture by Edgar B. Graves Professor of History Al Kelly. Kelly's topic was "Heroes and Harlots: German Virtue and French Decadence in the 'Great and Glorious War' of 1870-1871."