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The documentary about Run for the Fallen, titled "To Them That's Gone", has entered post-production and Run for the Fallen LLC has recently launched a new corresponding website.

An exhibition of 19th century wood engravings from the collection of Jay G. Williams recently opened at the Barrett Art Gallery of Utica College.  The collection includes works from the 1850s, when wood engraving became popular as a form of illustration, until such illustrations were largely replaced by photographs in the late 1880s. The exhibition will be open until April 2.

Artwork by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was featured in PDN (Photo District News) Magazine, PDN's 30 2009: Gallery (March 2009). Each year the magazine selects 30 "new and emerging photographers to watch." Almanas' work was selected and highlighted within the piece.

Roberta L. Krueger, Burgess Professor of French, has published an essay titled "Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction" in The Companion to Arthurian Literature, edited by Helen Fulton (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting the work "Directed Perspectives" at the Estel Gallery in Nashville, Tenn., in the show titled "Rock Paper Scissors." This group exhibition opened on Feb. 6 and runs until March 14.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published the third edition of his social science research methods textbook, Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation. The book, co-authored with Russell K. Schutt of the University of Massachusetts, is used in courses at more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States and United Kingdom, including the University of California, Berkeley, Georgetown University, and Amherst College.

Acting President and Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo published an essay in the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin (fall 2008, vol. 40, no. 1). In "Counting to One is Not Counting," Urgo questions why the Spellings commission did not consider the humanities in its report. "It is not simply that the Spelling commission report fails to mention the humanities as a factor in higher education; the report itself is devoid of a humanities perspective on what it means to be an educated human being."

Professor of Art Bill Salzillo's intaglio, The Cabinet, is one of 63 works chosen for the exhibition, White, Black, and Shades of Gray at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, Mass. Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead  had two etchings accepted. They are "Power Station" and "Smoker."

Four Hamilton College women's cross country runners earned all-academic honors in 2008 from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

In just over a year, Hamilton College's Trivia Night has exploded to become one of the largest weeknight attractions on campus. Every Tuesday at 8 p.m., dozens of teams, comprised of students and faculty members alike, arrive at the Little Pub to test their knowledge in the hopes of winning gift certificates to the Rio Grande Tex Mex Grill.