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Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula will present his film Memories of Development on Friday, March 4, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. A discussion will be led by Coyula following the film screening. The screening and discussion are free and open to the public.  

Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has the art installation “Confection” featured in The Stone Canoe 5: Signs of Life in Culture. The journal is an annual national publication of writing, art and ideas showcasing the work of emerging and established artists with a connection to Central New York. Lynette Stevenson curated the collection of visual artists; the journal was edited by Robert Colley '66 and published by Syracuse University.

Andrew Skurka boasts an extraordinary resume—he has been named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic and Person of the Year by Backpacker Magazine, and has under his belt more than 30,000 miles of backcountry trekking, skiing, and packrafting.

Ben Franklin probably would have loved the Internet. As colonial America’s most famous printer, Franklin ran a shop that served a very similar role to the Internet as we know it today. He dispersed all manner of information to the inhabitants of the colonies: legal documents, newspapers, and publications like Poor Richard’s Almanack, which Franklin himself wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Saunders.

Some visitors to Burke Library on Feb. 27 were sidetracked by a group of readers in the browsing area who were participating in the second Milton Marathon. Organized by Margaret Thickstun, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English, the event featured a day-long reading of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost.

On an Alternative Spring Break trip last year, Alysha Banerji ’11 was working with first-graders at a school in North Carolina when one of them proclaimed that his cat had just birthed kittens. The boy asked if Banerji wanted one, but when she told him that pets weren’t allowed in college dorms, he exclaimed, “I want to go to college!”

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, co-presented “Efficiency and Job Satisfaction in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Economic Case Study of Mondragon” at the Mid-Year Fellows Workshop. The workshop was held Feb. 24-25 at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.

Andrew Skurka, an adventurer, speaker, guide, and writer, will give two presentations at Hamilton on Monday, Feb. 28. The first, a lightweight backpacking skills clinic, will take place at noon in the Glen House. The second, a lecture on Skurka’s Alaska-Yukon expedition, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ.  Both events are sponsored by the Hamilton Outing Club and are free and open to the public.

Juror Jim Dine has selected prints by Professors of Art Bruce Muirhead and Bill Salzillo for the 2011 North American Print Biennial presented by the Boston Printmakers. Dine chose only 149 prints from more than 2,000 entries.

Nationally ranked No. 13 Hamilton College hosts Wesleyan University in a 2011 New England Small College Athletic Conference men's ice hockey quarterfinal at Russell Sage Rink on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m.