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Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, is one of four national experts who have been selected to present a key address at the first National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports, to take place in January in Nashville. Simon's topic is "Does Athletics Undermine Academics?" The colloquium hopes to address what officials say is a dearth of quality study related to sport in the context of higher education.  

In "Positioning for Power at China's Communist Congress" published by BusinessWeek on Oct. 9, Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, is quoted extensively on his views concerning the future leadership of China. "No one in the party has the clout to anoint a successor to Chinese leader Hu Jintao," says Li. In discussing the possible four front-runners who could be appointed to the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) in October with a view to taking over the reins in 2012, he noted that they all possess leadership experience, intellectual caliber and - unlike the existing Politburo members - youth.

The Gilded Bicycles are back! Thanks to the hard work of some mechanically-inclined students, the fleet of community bicycles that first appeared on campus last year is back and in use. According to Charlie Palanza '10, who has shepherded the repair and usage of the bicycles this semester, they are for the use of Hamilton community members. The idea is that anyone who sees an unoccupied bicycle may use it to get to where he or she wants to go…on campus, that is. Then the rider parks it for the next person to use.

Mihaela Petrescu, visiting assistant professor of German, organized the panel “From Femme Fragile to Vamp: Cultural Representations of Women during the Weimar Republic” at the 31st annual German Studies Association, held in San Diego on Oct. 4-7. Petrescu also presented a paper titled  “A Vamp's Favorite Pastime”  in which she scrutinizes the role of the Charleston in Alexander Corda's forgotten dance melodrama "Madame wuenscht keine Kinder” (Madam does not want any children, 1927).

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck gave an invited lecture titled “Magic and Mysticism in Morisco Manuscripts” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She also attended the Mid-America Conference of Hispanic Literatures at the same university where she gave a paper titled “Marvelous Fruit: Magic, Maryand the Libros plúmbeos.”

For the third consecutive fall, dozens of Hamilton students are organizing, coaching and refereeing a youth soccer league in Utica. Cornhill Youth Soccer (CYS) is a full-scale soccer league supported completely by Hamilton students.

Hamilton College has been awarded two related grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will support the work of Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Professor of Geosciences, and Assistant Professor of Biology Michael McCormick. Both grants will be applied to a series of research expeditions to Antarctica for which Domack will serve as chief scientist as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) International Polar Year program.

Nadine Amsel '08 and Rachael Arnold '08 were invited to the first Conference for Undergraduate Women in Computer Science (OurCS) on Oct. 5-7 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the conference provided opportunities for undergraduate women to work on exploratory projects in teams led by researchers from industry and academia. Amsel and Arnold met with the keynote speaker Frances Allen, IBM fellow emerita, and the first woman to receive the nation's top computer science prize, the 2006 Turing Award.

The Hamilton College Departments of Music and Dance welcome parents and siblings to a busy weekend of free concerts in Wellin Hall for Family Weekend.  The Hamilton College Choir and College Hill Singers will share a program with the Department of Dance on Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. 

The water ways of central New York serve as important laboratories for the study of natural change and societal impacts upon local, regional and even global environment. Hamilton, through the combined support of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (via the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board), now has a vessel capable of providing access to our regional lakes and rivers for the purposes of teaching and research.