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Longtime Newsweek reporter and editor Eleanor Clift will present “Politics in the Age of Obama” on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Clift, who is also a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated The McLaughlin Report, will also answer questions from the audience. The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the College Democrats.

In a Chronicle of Higher Education article about a CUNY graduate seminar in academic ethics, a text written by Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, is referenced as the one that the class was using. Simon’s text is Neutrality and the Academic Ethic, a 1994 volume that is part of a 15-book series on academic published by Rowman & Littlefield.

The development of data archiving in psychology and the related contributions of Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan were recently described in an article in the Monitor on Psychology (Vol. 40), a publication of the American Psychological Association.

“Unmasking the real story of the man that revolutionized hockey,” a USA Today article about the development of the hockey mask in the National Hockey League, features Hamilton’s former track coach Gene Long and alumnus and former Hamilton hockey goalie Don Spencer ’59. The story credits Long with the invention of the prototype for the mask and highlights Spencer’s role as the individual who alerted famed NHL goaltender Jacques Plante to its existence 50 years ago.

Hamilton's Human Resources Department sponsored a pumpkin-carving contest for employees on Oct. 30. Employees were invited to assemble a team of 2 to 4 people and submit a carved pumpkin for judging. The pumpkins were on display at the Blood Fitness Center where employees could vote for their favorite and enjoy cider and donuts. The winning team will receive Hamilton sweatshirts, second place will get Hamilton tee shirts, and the third place winners will receive a tray of breakfast goodies.

Eight members of Hamilton's class of 2010 were elected this week to the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are Andrew P. Beyler, Suzannah B. Chatlos, Laura E. DeFrank, Brandon L. Leibsohn, Phillip J. Milner, Mallory J. Reed, Anthony Sali and Ian J. Stearns.

Overpopulation is inextricably tied to countless environmental issues: Poverty, water shortages, pollution and waste management, famine, and resource consumption. It was this topic, with a focus on family planning and sex education, that was the focus of a discussion on Wednesday in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit led by Izaak Walton League representative Rebecca Wadler Lase ’00 and Sierra Club representative Cassie Gardener.

Assistant Professor of Physics Natalia Connolly has been awarded computing time on the TeraGrid, an open scientific super-computing infrastructure funded by the National Science Foundation. This award is for her work with ultra-high luminous infra-red galaxies (ULIRGs) and will allow her to continue her research begun last summer with Will Eagan '11 and University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Researcher Brian Connolly.

Along with classmates from more than 20 other colleges and universities, Hamilton students currently studying abroad with the Associated Colleges in China (ACC) program recently traveled to Xi’an, one of the four ancient capitals of China. In addition to viewing the Terracotta Warriors, one of China’s most famous attractions, students also had the chance to explore the Muslim Quarter, an area of the city made distinctive more than 1000 years ago by Xi’an’s status as the eastern starting point of the Silk Road.

The second event in the Hamilton College Theatre Department series Art and the Stage: Design for the Theatre will be “Fashion and Costume: John Galliano and The Learned Ladies” with costume designer Amy Petta on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 4:10 p.m., in Minor Theater. The lecture is free and open the public.