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The Hamilton Environmental Action Group will host a showing of The 2% Solution, a free, live, interactive webcast on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium, G027. The webcast is in conjunction with Focus the Nation, a national teach-in engaging millions of students and citizens with political leaders and decision makers about Global Warming Solutions taking place on Jan. 31. Join Stanford University climate scientist Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, green jobs pioneer Van Jones, and youth climate leaders for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting. Refreshments will be available. It is free and open to the public.

A Green Democracy Roundtable will take place at Hamilton on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Hosted by the Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) and Democracy Matters, the roundtable intends to address such issues as awareness, activism and solutions to global warming. The discussion is part of Focus the Nation, a nationwide teach-in to raise awareness of global warming, and is open to the public. Kevin Rowe, president of Democracy Matters, noted "We're trying to emphasize that the event is not a panel, but rather an interactive discussion among policymakers, students, faculty, local citizens and activists and the college administration."

Eric Kuhn '09 was interviewed for and featured in an Associated Press article titled "Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars" released on Tuesday, Jan. 22. He was subsequently contacted by KPCC public radio in Pasadena, California, to participate in a live half-hour interview on the topic. He was joined on air with Washington Post technology writer Mike Musgrove on Friday, Jan. 25.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has penned an examination of several memoirs written by members of the 1960s radical campus groups, the Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).  "Weather Reports" appears in the Feb. 11 issue of The Nation and was posted on the publication's Web site on Jan. 24,

Lao Zi's great Chinese philosophical classic, Dao De Jing, serves as the inspiration for a new book, The Path and Its Power, by Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay G. Williams '54.

Nearly 150 students will spend part of their Saturday volunteering for Hamilton Action Volunteer Outreach Coalition's (HAVOC) 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day on Jan. 26. Students and other members of the Hamilton community will work at eight non-profit agencies in Utica and also host children from the Neighborhood Center for a visit to the Hamilton campus.

The Red Room Gallery located on the second floor of the Stanley Theatre in Utica, N.Y., is presenting the work of Jake Muirhead '86.  The show opened on January 7 and runs until February 7. Muirhead earned his bachelor's degree in art at Hamilton. He lives with his wife Ginna and their seven-year-old son in Takoma Park, Md.

Carl Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, participated in the Fourth Biennial International Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory in Havana, Cuba, from January 14-19. The seminar was organized by the Havana Instituto de Filosofia, which invited Rubino to give a pre-seminar course on "Complexity, Ethics, and Connectivity."

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 co-authored a paper "Is the Optimal Rectangle a Square?" with Michael M. Neumann of Mississippi State University, which appears in the Fall 2007 issue of The Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. The paper centers around concave and log-concave functions and the extent to which their products are maximized at a unique point. The results, which also involve symmetry of the graphs of the functions, lead to simple solutions of several calculus problems.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung served as a discussant at the Columbia Modern Japan Seminar on January 18 at Columbia University. She presented a reaction paper titled "Problematizing the Legal Definitions of Ethnicity, Nationality and Citizenship."