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Hamilton College will host a Gospel Music Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Chapel as the culminating event of Hamilton's 10th Annual Gospel Choir Workshop.  The workshop begins on Friday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel, and all singers are invited to participate. The workshop and music celebration are free and open to the public. To register for the workshop, call Jeff McArn, Hamilton College Chaplain at 859-4130 or email him at jmcarn@hamilton.edu.

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in Congress to ease the offshore drilling ban, Eric Kuhn '09 spoke with Washington D.C. environmental lobbyist and summarized the interview in a Huffington Post article.

Hamilton's program in New York City students continued their exploration of the city with a tour of the J.M.W. Turner exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, on Sept. 17.  A generous alumni benefactor made the visit possible.

When the Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton first leaned toward the microphone at the beginning of his Constitution Day lecture on Sept. 17, he mentioned that it was customary to open such a speech with a lawyer joke. Faint chuckles rolled through the audience in the Hamilton College Chapel, but it was apparent that there was no light humor to be had. Sutton instead chose to describe his first tense days, back after a long summer, as a judge on United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Members of the Hamilton community got a sample of College Seminar 235 "Food for Thought" with a bread-tasting on Sept. 18. Food for Thought is collaborating with campus food service provider Bon Appetit in hosting a series of tastings during the semester. The class is exploring and sampling unusual local and international foods. The next tasting is Oct. 7 and will feature maple syrups, honey, sugar and sweeteners.

John Werner '92, a founder and Executive Director of Citizen Schools has been named a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He recently began his residency at Harvard for the 2008-2009 academic year. Werner majored in government and minored in history at Hamilton and in 2004, completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education program.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman and Burgess Professor of French Roberta L. Krueger presented a paper at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, from September 12-14. The theme for 2008 was "Vegetables," and their paper, "Utica Greens: Central New York's Italian-American Specialty," covered the cultural history of this local dish. Using cookbook research and interviews with home cooks and restaurant chefs, the paper examines the origins of what is now an almost obligatory item on local menus.

The Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, will present the inaugural David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitution Day, September 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute, the Government Department and the Publius Society and is free and open to the public.

Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor of anthropology, published his paper titled "Lithic Core Reduction Techniques: Modeling Expected Diversity," with co-authors Ian Kuijt (University of Notre Dame), Shane Macfarlan (Washington State University), Curtis Osterhoudt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and Bill Finlayson (Council for British Research in the Levant). The paper is published in a volume edited by William Andrefsky Jr. titled Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation.

Marla Jaksch, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, presented a paper at the "(In)Equality, Inclusion, & Human Development" conference in New Delhi, India. The conference, co-sponsored by the Human Development & Capability Association and the Institute for Human Development, brought together international scholars, activists, and policy makers to meet, explore, and strategize on the relationships between inequality, exclusion, and human development.