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Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, published "Pragmatism for Pacifists" in the December 2007 issue of the philosophy journal Contemporary Pragmatism.

The Hamilton College Choir will present West Side Story on Friday - Sunday, Feb. 8-10, in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m. and the Sunday performance is at 2 p.m. 

Dan Nye, CEO of the social and professional Internet networking site LinkedIn, will present "Social Networking: The Next Generation" at Hamilton. Nye, a 1988 graduate of Hamilton College, will speak on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. * Please note this is a change of location.

Dr. Thomas W. Kensler '70, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke about the spreading cancer epidemic and possible solutions to this growing global problem on Feb. 4. It was the first lecture of the semester in a series on global health issues sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project. Kensler's talk focused on efforts to identify risk factors and prevent exposure to carcinogens. His current work focuses on the growing cancer rates in China.

Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major presented a mathematics colloquium, "The Attractiveness of Loops and Ribbons," at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Feb. 4. After reviewing the framework of quantum geometry he mentioned research work with Tomasz Konopka '02 and Rob Silversmith (Clinton H.S.). Rob's work helped show that the framed loop ("ribbons") algebra of quantum gravity with a cosmological constant is not represented in the Temperley-Lieb algebra i.e. ribbons are not so attractive.

LaurieAnn Russell, associate director of Alumni Relations and director of Reunion Weekend, contributed an article to the February 2008 issue of CASE Currents. Her article "Finding their Voice," discusses ways to engage alumni of color. The monthly magazine is published by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981, The Hamilton Choir and College Hill Singers will perform throughout the Midwest from March 13 – 19. They will present both sacred and secular works ranging from the Renaissance to the present day in Buffalo, Cleveland, Appleton, Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. The program will include works by Handl, Lassus, Monteverdi, Pinkham, Barber, and Whitacre, as well as a Beatles medley and a selection of folk songs and spirituals. To learn more about the upcoming tour, to see a list of performance dates and venues and to register to attend a performance, please click here.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer performed his one-man show, 99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask, at Keystone College in Scranton on Feb. 4 as part of its Black History Month celebration.  Cryer created the play with a student, Jared Johnson '02, who conducted interviews of people in New York City to arrive at the questions.

While balancing academic work with the demands of participating in varsity athletics, members of Hamilton's women's basketball team have found time to start a reading program for the students at Clinton Elementary School. 

The most recent issue of the literary journal Salmagundi has published Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat's review of Martin Duberman's The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein (Knopf, 2007). "If it is read with the careful attention it deserves," Kodat writes, "Martin Duberman's biography of Lincoln Kirstein should have several bracing effects on U.S. cultural scholarship, not least of which would involve serious re-examinations of the purposes of arts patronage, the cultivation of aesthetic distinction, and the intersections of class, politics, and sexuality in mid-century U.S. life."