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The X-Viper Hour (audio theater group) presented Alfred Hitchcock's classic WWII spy thriller, Notorious, in their first-ever live audience performance on September 23.  XVH entertained residents at Clinton's Alterra Assisted Living Center, recreating the feel and fun of old-time radio for an excited audience.

Food service provider Bon Appétit and local farmers are hosting the "Eat Local Challenge" on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Hamilton, where all the food served at a campus-wide picnic will come from local producers. The picnic will take place on Dunham Quad from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reuben Haag, head chef at Hamilton, says he spends time finding farmers within a 150-mile radius of campus, and deals regularly with about a dozen farmers from upstate New York.

The 32 students in Hamilton's Ecology class (Biology 237) enjoyed beautiful, unseasonably warm weather when they made their annual trek to the top of Whiteface Mountain on Sunday, Sept. 23. The instructors are Associate Professor of Biology Bill Pfitsch and Biology Professor Ernest Williams, Jr., and they were joined by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole Snyder and Valentin Sukhare, postdoctoral associate in chemistry.

Sandra Steingraber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College, will give a lecture titled “Living Downstream,” on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Filllius Events Barn at Hamilton College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project at Hamilton College and the Kirkland Endowment. 

Hamilton's Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is sponsoring a number of activities to celebrate Green Week, Sept. 24-30.

Two Hamilton graduates are quoted, and their companies featured, in the Oct. 7th special issue of Fortune magazine devoted to leadership. In an article titled “Leader Machines,” writer Geoff Colvin asserts “… the world’s best companies are realizing that no matter what business they’re in, their real business is building leaders.”

In an opinion piece that appeared on Saturday, Sept. 22, in Utica's Observer-Dispatch titled "Warmer world could mean shorter winters for region," Professor of Biology Ernest Williams explained what the economic effects of global warming might mean for central New York.

Hamilton's English Department is sponsoring a James Joyce Symposium on Saturday, Sept. 29, in celebration of English Professor Austin Briggs’ 50 years of teaching. Briggs is an expert on Irish writer/poet James Joyce, the author of the novel Ulysses. The symposium will feature four panel discussions with Joyce experts from all over the U.S. All sessions will take place in the Red Pit in Kirner-Johnson and are open to the community.

Nikki Reynolds, director of Instructional Technology Support Services, and Susan Mason, director of the Oral Communication Center and of the Education Studies Program, presented at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Conference in September at Middlebury College. Their presentation, “Seeding a TaLC: Hamilton College’s Collaborative Initiatives in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," addressed Hamilton’s approach to the integration of academic resources offered by Instructional Technology, the reference librarians and the Oral Communication Center and Lab. 

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera published “Unikal’nyi put’ Rossii? Obzor politicheskikh elit” [“A Unique Path for Russia? A Survey of Political Elites”], in A. D. Shutov, Uchenye zapiski 2006 (Moscow: Nauchnaya kniga, 2006), which is a publication of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In it, she presents data from an original survey of Russian elites to show that despite the public rhetoric about Russia’s uniqueness, a substantial number of Russian leaders are willing to borrow from foreign experience, particularly from models of European welfare capitalism.