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On February 18, students in the Program in Washington, D.C., visited the Pentagon to meet with Fred Shear '03, a writer on the staff of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Students toured the massive facility, whose 6.5 million square feet and 17 miles of corridors are home to 23,000 military and civilian employees who plan and execute the nation's defense. Students also visited the Pentagon's 9/11 Memorial.

Hamilton College competes in the 2009 New England Small College Athletic Conference women's swimming and diving championships at Bowdoin College's Leroy Greason Pool in Brunswick, Maine, this weekend.

Forty-two students from Boston's Citizen Schools are visiting Hamilton this week as members of 8th Grade Academy. Citizen Schools is a growing national network of after-school education programs for middle school students. This is the fourth year the Boston-based middle schoolers are visiting Hamilton to get a taste of college life.

Art students, led by Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, will travel to New York City for the weekend of February 19-21 to tour the studios of respected contemporary artists Polly Apfelbaum, Kurt Kauper, Julie Heffernan, Justine Kurland and Carolee Schneeman.

Materials Technician in Art J. Anthony DiMezza will be exhibiting an installation at the Tiffany Smith Gallery in Johnstown, N.Y. The installation, "May serendipity be a guiding star," is considered by Dimezza to be a physical manifestation of Murphy's Law. The exhibition will run from Feb. 20 - March 13, with an opening reception on Feb. 20 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Sydney Fasulo '09 poured in 22 points and dished out a career-high seven assists to lead Hamilton College to a 64-44 Liberty League win against visiting William Smith College at Scott Field House on Feb. 17.

Hobart College missed the second of two free-throw attempts with one second left and Hamilton College edged the visiting Statesmen, 77-76, in a Liberty League game played at Scott Field House on Feb. 17.

Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received yet another glowing review, this time from The Atlantic in its March issue. The reviewer described the book as a "comprehensive account, a vacuum-filling history (the first of its kind in five-plus decades) and an enormously engaging addition to the climbing-lit canon."

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, contributed an essay, "Place of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South Africa: Black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships," in William Logan & Keir Reeves (eds.), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' (London: Routledge, 2009).

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann wrote an article that appeared in the January issue of Security Studies, a leading international relations theory and security journal. The article "Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Classical Realist Statecraft and Economic Exchange in U.S. Interwar Strategy," sheds new and original light on our entry into WWII and the origins of Japanese oil dependency on the United States.