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Tracy Adler, director of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, spoke with WAMC host Joe Donahue on the station’s daily Roundtable morning show about the museum’s opening and current exhibition. The Oct. 25 interview can be heard on the WAMC site.

“Microclimates and the Survival of Overwintering Monarchs” by William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Ernest Williams was published in the summer issue of American Butterflies magazine.

Assistant Professor of Art Robert Knight published “Family of Man,” a review of a recent photography exhibition, in the current issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.

Critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Pamela Mason Wagner will preview her latest work Makers, on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m., in Bradford Auditorium. Makers explores the advancement of women’s rights and the feminist movement over the past 50 years; the full documentary will air on PBS in early 2013. The screening is the fourth installment in fall F.I.L.M. series, and is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman conducted the Musical Associates of Central New York in a Halloween Family Concert on Oct. 27 in Syracuse.  This was the first public performance of Musical Associates, the successor orchestra to the Syracuse Symphony.

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart announced in an e-mail to the campus community the death of Professor of Physical Education Emeritus Comfort Richardson.

The Newman Council hosted its annual Trust Treat on Halloween for children from Thea Bowman House in Utica. Trust Treat is a Halloween celebration that brings youth from the Utica area, as well as the children of Hamilton employees, to the campus for a safe and fun evening of trick-or treating.  Students in residence halls, academic departments and campus organizations dress in costume, decorate their spaces and hand out candy to the visitors.

Professor of Africana Studies and Chief Diversity Officer Donald Carter and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill participated in the conference “Race, Ethnicity, and Place” in San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the week of Oct. 22.

Author and University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum will deliver a lecture titled “The New Religious Intolerance: Beyond the Politics of Fear” on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m., in the Chapel. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freud Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the law school and philosophy department. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces its Fall production, The Dispute by Marivaux, translated by Gideon Lester. Performances will run Thursday, Nov. 1 – Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m., and Wednesday, Nov. 7 – Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m., and at 2:30 p.m. on Saturdays, Nov. 3 and Nov. 10. All performances take place in Minor Theater.