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Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Jacqueline Brown is one of 13 artists participating in a group exhibition titled "Almost Famous" at the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Va. The show will be open through October 11. "Almost Famous" features select graduates from the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Hamilton College placed seventh at St. Lawrence University's 15-team Ronald C. Hoffman Invitational in Canton, N.Y., on Sept. 27.

Hamilton senior Eric Kuhn, in his role as a contributor to UWIRE, reported on the student reaction on and off campus to the first presidential debate held Friday, Sept. 26. The video which he produced is posted on The Washington Post's Youth "Vote '08" site and is part of a group of five videos produced by UWIRE reporters across the country.

Author Preeta Samarasan '98 will read from her novel, Evening Is The Whole Day, (Houghton Mifflin, May 2008) on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou (in the 7th arrondissement). It is free and open to the public.

Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, attended the "Victorian Literature and Culture: Bodies and Things" conference on Sept. 27 at Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK. Rohrbach gave a paper titled "Byron and the Future of the Museum," which explored the "aesthetics of history" in Byron's comic epic Don Juan in relation to the early 19th century rise of the modern museum as a form of historical knowledge. In Don Juan, Byron envisions a future in which an archaeological dig would uncover the body of George IV as a historical relic for a "new museum"; the comic image, she suggested, registers the poet's aversion to the politics of the burgeoning museum culture.

Anthony Carello '09 stopped all six shots he faced to help lead Hamilton College to a 2-0 Liberty League victory against visiting Clarkson University at Love Field on Sept. 27.

Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, gave an invited talk at the Geological Survey of Canada for the Logan Club on Sept. 25, in Ottawa. His talk was titled "Environmental Change and the Larsen Ice Shelf." The Geological Survey of Canada was founded in 1842 by Sir William Logan. The Logan Club was founded in 1887 as a forum for the GSC staff to discuss earth science topics.

Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by Maurice Isserman, the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received a stream of accolades in a review that appears in the Friday, Sept. 26, edition of the International Herald Tribune and the Sunday, Sept. 28, issue of The New York Times Book Review. "Fallen Giants is the book of a lifetime for its authors, an awe-inspiring work of history and storytelling," wrote the reviewer.

Vice President of Administration and Finance Karen L. Leach and Steven J. Bellona, associate vice president of facilities and planning, spoke at a Private Higher Education CFO Summit Meeting for the New York State Dormitory Authority in New York City on Sept. 25.

Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, was a visiting art lecturer on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Kuharic discussed the evolution and direction of her work.