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Students in the Program in Washington, D.C., visited Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 11. After observing the solemn ceremony of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown, students visited other significant sites, including the home of Robert E. Lee, the USS Maine memorial, and the gravesites of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

The Recycling Task Force replaced the waste baskets in Spencer House on Feb. 13, making it the first Hamilton building that "Canned the Can."  Can the Can is a waste reduction program where office waste is targeted for recycling by reducing the waste basket or eliminating it from the office work station. Ninety-five percent of office waste is white paper, which should be recycled, and often a large waste basket is unnecessary.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature Emeritus, spoke on James Joyce at the Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on Feb. 3. Attended by an audience of more than 200, the lecture was delivered on behalf of the scholarship program of PEN International.

Associate Director and Curator of the Emerson Gallery Susanna White gave a gallery talk on Thursday, Feb. 12, as part of an ongoing series discussing the three current exhibitions on view there.

As Dr. Robert Spiegelman put it, New Yorkers (and, to a larger extent, Americans in general) are afflicted with "NDD," or "Nature Deficit Disorder." We have grown up in a society that does not herald meaningful interchange with nature, Spiegelman explained, and as such we live without any sort of reverence for our planet. It certainly seems that this disease needs a cure. Treatment begins with awareness. Spiegelman, a sociologist and multimedia artist, spoke at Hamilton on Feb. 16 as part of the New York Council on the Humanities lecture series.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has named Hamilton graduate John Young '71 to a three-year term ending on September 30, 2011.  Young, currently the managing director at Samuel A. Ramirez & Co. in New York, brings with him a intimate understanding of municipal securities to the MSRB.

Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received yet another glowing review, this time from The Atlantic in its March issue. The reviewer described the book as a "comprehensive account, a vacuum-filling history (the first of its kind in five-plus decades) and an enormously engaging addition to the climbing-lit canon."

Scholarly work in instructional technology designed by Barb Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, and Heather Macdonald of the College of William and Mary, has been peer-reviewed and published in Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).

Artwork by Visiting Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was published in Toronto Life magazine, Superbugged: p.58-59, 61, 62: March 2009. Her work accompanied an article about Superbugs by Stephanie Verge. The writer contracted a superbug (MRSA) while she was in the hospital and the piece is about her terrifying experience. The photos were from Almanas' series "Medical Interior" that deals with similar themes of patient perspective and the tempestuous environment of the hospital where life and death, comfort and fear coexist.

Ai Media Group has named Hamilton graduate Andrew Fenster '72 as Chief Executive Officer.  Fenster will bring extensive marketing and financial experience, formerly serving as Vice President and Controller of Big Flower Holdings, a New York-based $2.5 billion advertising and marketing company.