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Hamilton Performing Arts opens the spring semester with Perpetual Motion: Revolutions in 17th-Century Science & Music on Friday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. This performance is a multi-media production that includes music from the Baroque ensemble Galileo’s Daughters, narration by Dava Sobel from her book Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, and images of earth and space projected on a large screen.

Dr. John A. Rich, professor and chair of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health, will give a lecture titled “Hearing, Humanizing and Healing: Practicing Nonviolence in Public Health,” on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 4:10 p.m.,  in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.

The winter issue of Champion Magazine, the official magazine of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), published an opinion piece titled “Are educational and institutional values at odds?” in which Hamilton’s athletic program was highlighted. Scott Kretchmar, the author of the piece, referenced the college as an example of an institution that promotes “educational values related to participation over institutional values tethered to big-game weekends.”

For the fifth year, 26 Hamilton employees spent part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day volunteering at four non-profit organizations in the Utica area.

Hamilton’s 4th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day dinner theatre featured a sold-out presentation of Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer, the M-Theatre production is dedicated to providing theatrical works that will both challenge and reaffirm the campus' many perspectives on race, religion and gender. Tuesday's show is a sell-out but seats remain for Wednesday, Jan. 19, in the Fillius Events Barn.

During the week of January 10-14, five Hamilton students participated in a medical internship through the St. Elizabeth Health Experience Learning Program (HELP). Participants were seniors Melissa Nezamzadeh, Temiwumi Ojo, Andrew Portuguese, Margaret Schultz and George Taylor.

Louis Boguchwal ’12 and Dan Kamenetsky ’11 presented posters detailing the results of research they conducted last summer, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) held Jan. 6-9, in New Orleans.

The Utica Fire Department's hazardous materials unit has cleaned up this afternoon's small chemical spill in a research laboratory in the College’s Science Center and has given the College permission to reopen the building. There were no injuries in the incident. As a precaution, the laboratory in which the spill took place, room 1065, will remain closed until a secondary cleaning is performed tomorrow morning.

Hamilton College has opened a new center to support its increasingly diverse student population and named it for trustees Drew S. Days III and Arthur J. Massolo.

Associate Professor of Russian John Bartle was recently honored by The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Distinguished Service to AATSEEL 2011. Bartle has served as associate editor for book reviews for the Slavic and East European Journal since its fall 2001 issue.