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Forty-two students from Boston's Citizen Schools are visiting Hamilton this week as members of 8th Grade Academy. Citizen Schools is a growing national network of after-school education programs for middle school students. This is the fourth year the Boston-based middle schoolers are visiting Hamilton to get a taste of college life.

Art students, led by Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, will travel to New York City for the weekend of February 19-21 to tour the studios of respected contemporary artists Polly Apfelbaum, Kurt Kauper, Julie Heffernan, Justine Kurland and Carolee Schneeman.

Materials Technician in Art J. Anthony DiMezza will be exhibiting an installation at the Tiffany Smith Gallery in Johnstown, N.Y. The installation, "May serendipity be a guiding star," is considered by Dimezza to be a physical manifestation of Murphy's Law. The exhibition will run from Feb. 20 - March 13, with an opening reception on Feb. 20 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Sydney Fasulo '09 poured in 22 points and dished out a career-high seven assists to lead Hamilton College to a 64-44 Liberty League win against visiting William Smith College at Scott Field House on Feb. 17.

Hobart College missed the second of two free-throw attempts with one second left and Hamilton College edged the visiting Statesmen, 77-76, in a Liberty League game played at Scott Field House on Feb. 17.

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.