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Professor of Classics Shelley Haley delivered a paper titled "STEM Education VS Classical Education: Lessons from African American History" at the annual meeting of Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) in Baltimore on Oct. 13.  She was also elected president of CAAS for 2011-2012.

Both Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer and Vice President for Information Technology Dave Smallen were quoted in the Oct. 1 issue of University Business magazine. In “Tuition setting: rationale behind determining price in a time of limited budgets,” Inzer discussed the participants and processes in tuition-setting discussions and in “Cloud email: the good the bad the uptime:,” Smallen discussed the elimination of storage costs and improved uptime that resulted when the college converted to gmail.

In the words of its founder and curator Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald, the Forum on Image and Language in Motion (F.I.L.M.) series “is what you would never know about film if you just went to the movies every weekend or watched television.”

Hamilton College will host its 13th annual Gospel Celebration, “The Storm is Passing Over,” music ministry and worship celebration on Saturday, Oct. 22,  from 7-9 p.m. in the Chapel. This event is free and open to the public, including colleges, churches and communities from the Finger Lakes to the Mohawk Valley.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson led a seminar session on the “Cult of Confucius” on Oct. 15 at the School of Education at Union Graduate College. Wilson participated on behalf of the Freeman Foundation-funded National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, a grant managed by the Five College Center for Teaching about Asia located at Smith College.

The monthly series of bicentennial displays, Hands on Hamilton History, continues with an exhibition of documents from around the time of the Revolutionary War and the following decades, including the founding and operation of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy. The items will be on display in the Patricia Pogue Couper Research Room in the Emerson Rare Book Room on the third floor of Burke Library on Thursday, Oct. 20.

Prize-winning poet Iain Haley Pollock will conduct a workshop and read from his work on Thursday, Oct. 20, at Hamilton.  The workshop "Too Black": The Intersection of Identity, Politics and Creativity in Contemporary Poetry" will take place at 4 p.m. in the Days-Massolo Center. Pollock's reading will begin at 8 p.m. in Dwight Lounge. Both events are free and open to the public.

Hamilton's Department of Music presents a Fall Performing Arts Weekend on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21 and 22, with free concerts by the College Choir and College Hill Singers and Hamilton College Orchestra in Wellin Hall.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg presented a public lecture titled “From Center to Periphery: Regional Culture and Identity in the Ritual Arts of Hunan Province” on Oct. 13, at Bowdoin College. His talk was part of a lecture series in conjunction with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition “Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan.” The exhibition was originally shown at the China Institute in New York City.

The students in Hamilton’s NYC program participated in their first organized cultural outing as a group, visiting the Lyonel Feininger exhibit at the Whitney Museum on New York’s Upper East Side on Oct. 12.