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Hamilton College has received $1.6 million from the estate of renowned New York State historian and Hamilton alumnus David Ellis and his wife Carolyn, which will support an endowed chair in their name.

American contemporary artist James Siena will present a lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 4:30 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The lecture is a part of the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series and is free and open to the public.

Russian and Soviet government expert Timothy J. Colton delivered a talk on Nov. 4 on leadership in post-Soviet nations. The lecture was titled “Political Leadership after Communism” and sponsored by the Levitt Center Speaker Series. Colton is the Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and chair of the Government Department at Harvard University, and the author of numerous books on Russian and Soviet politics.

It started with six Hamilton students, one psychologist, and a wilderness expert. Together, they initiated a one-of-its-kind “Wilderness Adventure Quest” promoting self-reflection, self-acceptance and an exploration of Hamilton’s motto “Know Thyself.”

Hamilton’s Mock Trial Team started out its season on a positive note, winning the University of Rochester Yellow Jacket Invitational with a 7-1 record on Nov. 2-3.

Professor of Physics Emeritus Philip Pearle presented a mini-course at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and published a paper on his Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) theory of wave function collapse.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman and Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer will present “Pop-up Poetry” in separate events at Utica’s Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute.

The first lecture of Professor Brent Rodriguez-Plate’s new course, Religion in the Wild, took place far from its home base in Root Hall.

Lawrence Chua, postdoctoral fellow in Asian Studies and visiting assistant professor of art history, spoke on the architecture of utopia and globalization with artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer at a salon in New York City on Oct. 28. It was organized by Art 21, the organization that produces the PBS television series, “Art in the 21st Century.”

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar participated on a panel titled "Politics of Religion: Patronage, Identity and Religious Centers in the Early Medieval India"' at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oct. 17-20.