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A letter urging protection for the monarch butterfly and co-authored by Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, was delivered to to President Barack Obama, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at this week’s North American Summit in Mexico.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jen Borton presented a poster on Feb. 14 at the 15th Annual Meeting of The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in Austin, Texas.

The next film in the Tournées Festival is Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, delivered a lecture to an audience of more than 200 people on Feb. 11 at the Bellas Artes Cultural Center in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Distinguished author Harriet A. Washington delivered a lecture titled “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present” at Hamilton on Feb. 19. Her book by the same name won the prestigious 2007 National Book Critics’ Circle Award and was named one of the year’s Best Books by Publishers’ Weekly.

Associate Professor of Biology Mike McCormick moderated a panel discussion on “Changing Earth and Eco Systems in the Antarctic Peninsula” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) national meeting held February 14-16, in Chicago.

The Chinese translation of Lives of Confucius (Doubleday), a book to be published by Professor of History Thomas Wilson and co-author Michael Nylan of the University of California, Berkeley, passed external review by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (CUHK).

Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students for Academics Stephen Orvis has published (with Carol Drogus, Colgate University) the third edition of Introducing Comparative Politics with CQ/Sage Press.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents an evening of new and traditional bluegrass with Noam Pikelny and Friends on Friday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton co-ed a capella group Duelly Noted will be opening for The Sing-Off Live Tour!, a touring show based on the hit NBC a cappella singing competition on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m., at Turning Stone Resort Casino.