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Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of Chinese, was invited to give a teacher development workshop at Georgia's Annual Teacher Development Conference on Oct. 17 in Atlanta. Her presentation was titled "Task-based Language Teaching in the Chinese Classroom: Design and Implementation."

On Oct. 8, HOC leader James Otey '11 did the first ascent of a longstanding rock climbing project in the town of Little Falls, which he named "Arete Style Dysfunction." The route, which is now the most difficult rock climb in central New York (5.13a), took Otey about  five days of effort.

Bob Moses '56, founder and president of The Algebra Project and a renowned civil rights activist, will give a lecture on “Quality Public School Education as a Constitutional Right,” on Monday, Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His lecture is part of the 2010-11 Levitt Center series on “Inequality and Equity” and is free and open to the public.

"Shape in an atom of space," a paper by Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major, was published in Classical and Quantum Gravity on Oct. 20. This paper, completed while visiting the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada, develops a model of how the discrete microstructure of space ( if one exists!) might leave its imprint in data from high energy particle scattering experiments.

Lt. Col.  Margaret Stock, U.S. Army Reserves, provided an informative look at the complexity of immigration issues facing this country in her talk, “Immigration, Citizenship, and Security: The Current Debate” on October 21. Stock framed immigration issues in the context of how they relate to national security, and through her interactive talk helped hammer home the difficulties facing immigration lawyers as they try to deal with this confounding issue.

On Oct. 20, some 400 members of the Hamilton community gathered for a candlelight march to show solidarity and embrace the various religions on Hamilton’s campus. The procession began at the Chapel and ended at Kirner-Johnson, where the documentary The Anatomy of Hate was screened and producer /director Mike Ramsdell spoke.

The 9th Annual Hamilton College Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 24, from noon to 4 p.m., on the Clinton Village Green. Fall Fest is an initiative that was started in 2002 by the Hamilton Class of 2005 to improve town/gown relations by uniting the Hamilton and Clinton communities for an afternoon of food, fun, and entertainment.

Thom Rath, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of history, gave two papers in October. At the conference of the Latin American Studies Association in Toronto, he presented research examining the effects of military reform on gender roles and state legitimacy in Mexico in the 1930s and 40s. This paper contributes to larger debates about the effects of the Revolution of 1910-20 on gender, and the limits of postrevolutionary demilitarization.

Hamilton College Performing Arts Classical Connections presents award-winning Aviv String Quartet on Friday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall on the Hamilton campus.

Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting in New York City in The Other End of the Line, a major public art installation addressing the connections and differences between the cultures of upstate New York and New York City. Inspired by the freight train High Line's history of transporting goods from upstate New York into New York City, Francis Cape will transport a previously-occupied residential trailer from Sullivan County, N.Y., to Gansevoort Plaza under the High Line.