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A guest post titled “Higher education’s $64,000 question” by Professor of Government David Paris ’71 appeared on The Washington Post College Inc. blog on Feb. 2. Paris, who is currently serving as executive director of the New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability, expressed his support for establishing evidence-based improvement of student learning as a central focus of higher education.

Alexandra Halkin, documentary producer and founder of the Chiapas Media Project, will present a lecture and screening of her new film, Living Juarez, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Building Bradford Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Mexico’s Failed Drug War: Collateral damage and U.S. drug consumption,” is sponsored by the Religious Studies Department and is free and open to the public.

Professor of English Steven Yao's book, Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Oxford 2010) has been selected by the Association for Asian American Studies for its Book Award in Literary Studies.

To commemorate Black History Month, the Days-Massolo Center will screen the documentary Brother Outsider: Life of Bayard Rustin, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 4:15 p.m., at the Center on College Hill Road. The screening is free and open to the public.

Irene Depetris Chauvin, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, published an article in Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani - Università di Bologna Vol 3, No 2 (2011). The article is titled “Cartografía para los recuerdos: Barcelona y la(s) memoria(s) de la posguerra en Los mares del Sur de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.”

On February 1, students in the Semester in Washington Program met with George Baker ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89, principals at Williams and Jensen PLLC. Williams and Jensen is one of the nation's leading, independently owned government affairs law firms.

Digital Humanities Initiative co-directors Angel David Nieves and Janet Simons presented at the annual American Association of Colleges and Universities 2012 meeting in Washington, D.C., in January. The presentation was titled "Curricular Connections to Humanities Research: DHi's CLASS Program."

Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art Katharine Kuharic will present “Pound of Flesh,” a lecture about her recent work, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at noon, in Chestnut Lecture Hall at the San Francisco Art Institute. The lecture is open to the public.

A North Woods Elegy: Incident at Big Moose Lake, a documentary film about the 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette, will be shown on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. in Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building. The 62-minute film was produced and directed by Derek Taylor, an assistant professor at Southern Connecticut State University. The event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presented Lady in the Dark as this year's choir musical on Feb. 3-5, in Wellin Hall.  Lady in the Dark features music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Moss Hart.  The fully staged musical was directed by G. Roberts Kolb with choreography by Nancy Long and set and lighting design by William DiPaolo.