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Not to be outdone by HAVOC and its Make a Difference Day, the Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) took a trip on Sept. 10 to the Sterling Nature Center on Lake Ontario to participate with other local activists in Sterling’s annual Beach Clean-up Day.

Edith Grossman, an award-winning translator, author and critic, gave the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture as part of the Humanities Forum Series on Sept. 15. In her lecture, “Why Translation Matters,” Grossman discussed the important role that translators play in fostering dialogue and communicating ideas across cultures.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten with students Matt Baxter ’11 and Jason McGavin ’12  published an article in the Sept. 7, vol. 105 issue of the Biophysical Journal. The paper titled “Amphipathic Antimicrobial Piscidin in Magnetically Aligned Lipid Bilayers” is also co-authored by Professor Stanley Opella, from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and members of his research team.

For the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman conducted a special concert for remembrance and healing at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Syracuse. The concert was organized by Syracuse-based theater director Victoria King who witnessed the attacks at close hand.

Members of the Archaeology of Hamilton’s Founding course led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, uncovered a second engraved stone less than two weeks after beginning their excavation of a site off College Hill Rd. on Sept 1. “Built to commemorate the dawn of the 20th century and the fiftieth anniversary" is its inscription. Who created and sited this marker is a mystery.

A panel of four authorities on the 1971 Attica Prison uprising—historians Theresa Lynch and Scott Christianson, former Attica inmate Melvin Marshall and Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections Brian Fischer—will debate on the legacy of Attica and the current state of American prisons on Friday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel.

A memorial service for Associate Professor of Dance Emerita Leslie Norton will be held at the Hamilton College chapel on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 11 a.m. A member of the Hamilton faculty from 1984-2011, Professor Norton died on July 25 after a lengthy illness. A reception in Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Center will follow the service.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series opens with soprano Julianne Baird’s Jane Austen Songbook on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.  A recital for voice and pianoforte, the Jane Austen Songbook weaves pertinent literary passages narrated around a series of arias and late 18th-century songs selected from Jane Austen’s own musical collection.

The Hamilton College Marathon Canoe Racing Team kicked off its first fall as an official club sport with four boats in the 29th Adirondack Canoe Classic, “The 90-Miler.” Over the weekend of Sept. 9-11, these teams raced with more than 250 other boats in the event hosted by the Adirondack Watershed Alliance.

Two hundred years of learning is undoubtedly cause for celebration. Yet the charter that Hamilton received in 1812 merely continued a quest for knowledge that had begun two decades earlier with Samuel Kirkland and his Hamilton-Oneida Academy, a secondary school that focused on educating local Iroquois youth. Like so much at Hamilton, the Academy began with a piece of writing: Kirkland’s 1791 “Plan of Education for the Indians,” a 15-page document in which Kirkland outlined his ideas for the new school.