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It was an anniversary of sorts. To COOP director Amy James, 2011 marks the year that every class of Hamilton students has participated in Hamilton Serves. The Orientation program began in 2008 and takes the students to volunteer at local non-profit agencies for the morning before classes start.

“China’s International Identities: The Conflicted Rising Power” in a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 4:30 p.m., in KJ’s Bradford Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

A paper co-authored by Geosciences Professor Eugene Domack that demonstrates how rising temperatures in the Antarctic margin have allowed an invasive species to decimate the existing marine life was published on Sept. 7 in the British journal  Proceedings B, the Royal Society's flagship biological research journal.

Prize-winning poet and author Randall Horton will read from his work on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The event, hosted by the English and Creative Writing Department and sponsored in part by the Dean of Faculty, is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Department of Music begins the season with the annual Fall Faculty Concert on Friday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.  The concert will feature Hamilton College faculty artists performing solo, duo and small ensemble pieces for voice, piano, woodwinds, strings and brass. The musical selections are varied and range from Mozart to jazz artist Paquito D’Rivera.

“Live your passion.” It’s a mantra Melissa Kong ’08 has repeated many times—she even uses it as the title of her blog.  On Sept. 3, Kong returned to share her passion with 45 members of the class of 2014 at the inaugural Sophomore JumpStart, a program focused on translating the dreams and passions of the sophomore class into concrete skills and ideas for the working world.

Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Biology David Gapp was appointed to the Silas D. Childs Chair, and Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan was appointed to the James L. Ferguson Chair. Both appointments were effective July 1.

In impoverished countries such as Guatemala, education and other opportunities for women and girls could help substantially in improving the state’s overall economic health. However, Guatemalan women, particularly those belonging to the Mayan tribe, are all but ignored when it comes to proper education and healthcare. Rebecca Ross ’14 spent the summer in Guatemala, analyzing the conditions facing Mayan women and studying the concept of battling poverty through gender equality.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman published a review of Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen, by Anthony DiRenzo, in the Fall 2011 issue of Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture.

Members of the Archaeology of Hamilton’s Founding course broke ground at a site just off College Hill Road on Thursday, Sept. 1. Selected because of its possible association with key figures in Hamilton’s past, the site will be excavated by the students during the next seven weeks. Local NBC affiliate WKTV taped the first day’s digging for a news broadcast.