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"Five Years at Delavan," opens on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Delevan Art Gallery featuring prints by the Atelier Four, a group which includes alumna Amy Georgia Buchholz '80, Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, alumnus Jake Muirhead '86 and Professor of Art William Salzillo. A reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 11, from 5 to 8 p.m. The gallery is located at 501 W. Fayette Street, Syracuse. The exhibition is open through Oct. 25.

This year Hamilton students are being offered front-row seats for an exceptional opportunity in Hollywood. In the Legendary Pictures Film Treatment Challenge, students can extend their ideas from the classroom to the big screen through the creation of an original film treatment. This unique opportunity will allow student film treatments to possibly be reviewed by the team that helped create Superman Returns, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Sponsored by Legendary Pictures founder, chairman and CEO, Thomas Tull '92, the competition is exclusively open to Hamilton students and will be conducted throughout the 2008-09 academic year

Jon Stewart, executive producer and host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series at Hamilton College. He will perform on Friday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. No tickets will be issued for the free event, but seats for the general public will be limited, on a first-come, first-served basis, because members of the Hamilton College community will receive priority seating.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Chris Calvert-Minor has published a paper, "Commonsense Realism and Triangulation," in the journal Philosophia. Calvert-Minor takes a pragmatist line of thought to defend commonsense realism. He supports the position through an interpretation and application of Donald Davidson's notion of triangulation, the triangle composed of two communicators coordinating and correcting their responses with a shared causal stimulus.

Eugene Domack, the J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, gave an invited keynote talk at the 33rd Annual International Geological Congress meeting in Oslo, Norway, in August. His talk was titled "Chronologic Constraints on Deglaciation of the Antarctic Continental Shelf, A Review of Radiocarbon Methods and Applications." For nine days 6,000 scientists from 113 countries took part in lively discussions within almost every conceivable aspect of geology. The abstract text of Domack's talk follows.

Clyde Tuggle '84, president of The Coca-Cola Company's Russia, Ukraine and Belarus business unit, has been named head of productivity and corporate affairs at Coke's corporate headquarters in Atlanta, effective immediately. He will be recommended for election as a senior vice president at the company's October board meeting.

Edward S. Walker, Jr., '62, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates and Hamilton's Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, co-wrote an opinion piece in The Boston Globe on Tuesday, Sept. 2, titled "A US role in Syrian-Israeli peace."

Hamilton's Emerson Gallery is hosting three new exhibitions of Chinese art showcasing both traditional and contemporary works this semester. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 4, from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Last fall, Alex Hodgens '09 (Syracuse, N.Y.) worked in a public health clinic during his off-campus semester in Nicaragua. "I realized there that working to reverse inequalities in healthcare is something I'm very interested in," the rising senior says. Once back at home, Hodgens continued to look for ways to work in public health, and was able to find an internship at Syracuse Community Health Center West, a primary care clinic that provides services to members of the community who might otherwise be excluded from healthcare.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 was a speaker at the Conference on Banach Algebras and Local Spectral Theory held in August at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. Kantrowitz's talk, titled "Approximation by Operators that Preserve Disjointness," centered around bounded linear operators on Banach algebras of continuous functions, and the extent to which they are approximable by weighted composition operators.