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Ben Salzman '14 and Professor of Music Samuel Pellman recently presented a new work, Selected Galaxies: Spirals, at the  Kyma International Sound Symposium, hosted by St. Cloud State University, in Minnesota. 

Princeton University Professor Caryl Emerson will deliver the Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Emerson is a professor of comparative literature and the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton.  The lecture, part of the Humanities Forum, is titled “Eugene Onegin the Play:  Pushkin, Prokofiev, and the Stalinist Stage.” It is free and open to the public.

Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will screen her latest work, Saving Face, along with a new film, Fatima, on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, K.J. The screening, part of the fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series, is free and open to the public.

Landscape architect Paul Cawood Hellmund of the Conway School, a graduate program in sustainable planning and design in Massachusetts, will deliver a lecture titled “Greenways: Reconnecting the social and ecological fabric of a fragmented world,” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. Hellmund is the president and director of Design and Planning at Conway.  The lecture, the second in the Levitt Center’s Sustainability series, is free and open to the public.

With total payroll exceeding $23.1 billion for 373,800 direct, indirect and induced jobs, New York’s independent colleges and universities are major source of jobs in New York State, according to a Center for Governmental Research (CGR) analysis released today by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU). The announcement came during an Independent Higher Education Forum on Oct. 16 in Utica.

George Baker Jr. ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89 have returned to Hamilton to share their real-world experience with 12 students through a unique Lobbying and Government Relations course. Baker and Vlossak, who hold the positions of distinguished lecturers of American Public Policy and Practice, previously co-taught the course in 2008.

Food policy specialist and author Mark Winne P'00 will give a lecture, "Food Rebels and Guerrilla Gardeners: Finding Our Way to Food Democracy," on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 5:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  Winne’s appearance marks the second annual National Food Day, a nationwide celebration of local and sustainable foods. 

Hamilton students are now pursuing their studies on all seven continents. On Oct. 10, Chief Scientist Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professorship of Environmental Studies, began an 18-day cruise to Antarctica along with two Hamilton students and two alumni. Students are writing blog updates about their trip each day.

With hundreds of Walmarts and large malls spreading across the United States, shoppers can enjoy more convenient, sometimes cheaper goods, from groceries to car tires. While smooth highways bridge millions of Americans to glossy new shopping opportunities every year, the nation places less value on the quiet pastoral state that it once treasured. Marty Cain ’13 is exploring this dichotomy of lifestyles for his senior fellowship, The Poetic Art of Rural Decay: Reinterpreting the Pastoral with a Surreal Sense of Place.

Daniel Maree, a filmmaker and social strategist, will deliver a lecture titled “Lessons from the Million Hoodie March:  My Philosophy of Social Change” on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ.  Maree created the Million Hoodie Movement in response to the February, 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin.  At Hamilton, Maree will discuss the power of social media and what he learned from this campaign. The lecture is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and is free and open to the public.