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Hamilton's Maynard Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico '71 spoke on Wednesday, Sept. 9, to a packed audience of students, professors, and community members about “The Burden of the Law: How the Supreme Court Defines Justice.” This lecture was the first of the season for the Imagining America series hosted at The Other Side in Utica, which aims to create a town-gown relationship between the college and its community centering on the arts and humanities.

Professor of Art Rand Carter has contributed a chapter to a book published recently in Germany. The volume’s title is Entwerfen: Architektenausbildung in Europa von Vitruv bis Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts, Geschichte, Theorie, Praxis.

For nearly 200 years, Hamilton College has been committed to environmental stewardship. Hamilton has a strong repertoire of environmentally sustainable practices, from the continual planting of trees on campus and investment in renewable energy resources for KJ and the Glen House, to student activist groups such as the Hamilton Environmental Action Group, the Recycling Task Force and Sustainability Committee.

Hamilton College, in collaboration with Imagining America, will host a series of lectures this year at The Other Side, a community center located next to the Cafe Domenico, 2011 Genesee St., Utica (across from the Uptown Theater). The Imagining America lecture series is a joint project between Hamilton and The Other Side which aims to foster a connection between "town" and "gown" through presentations centered in the arts and humanities. The lectures all begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

More than 100 Hamilton students spent a portion of their summer conducting research with faculty. In the labs and the libraries, in fields and on the water, students and faculty explored such topics as bacterial diversity in nearby Green Lake, contemporary Indian cinema and regulations in the U.S. airline industry. Read more about their projects.

The Diversity and Social Justice Project at Hamilton College will present a panel discussion, "Coming to America: Citizens Here and There," on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton's Fall Faculty Concert will open the College's music season on Friday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. This concert is free and open to the public.

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay G. Williams '54 recently published an article,"The Spiritual in Poetry," on the Bestthinking.com Web site. The site is not open to everyone but recognized scholars are invited to join and submit articles to share with other members and the world.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, emeritus, attended the North American James Joyce Conference held at SUNY Buffalo in June. At the conference, he participated on a panel he co-organized, "Joyce and the Visual Arts," and he co-moderated two discussion panels that he co-organized. In addition, as a trustee, Briggs attended a meeting of the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation.

Newly hired Assistant Professor of Chemistry Adam Van Wynsberghe became acquainted with Hamilton College before he even arrived. This summer, he and Hamilton student Sam Cho ’10 participated in biophysical chemistry research at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where Van Wynsberghe was an NIH Kirschstein post-doctoral fellow. He says the experience was “good for both parties” in that while Cho familiarized himself with the sort of research that could consume his career after Hamilton, Van Wynsberghe became acclimated to the Hamilton community through Cho.