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The Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, presents the annual Brainstorm! concert on Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall. This year’s theme is “Landscape Music.”

Utica-based FM station WUTQ declared Philip Klinkner “pretty much spot on” after conducting live interviews the day of and the day after Super Tuesday with the James S. Sherman Professor of Government. Klinkner offered predictions and analysis of the outcomes. Syracuse’s Post-Standard also sought his perspectives on the previous day’s voting in an article titled Super Tuesday takeaways from 5 CNY political observers.

“The Dynamics of Care: Communication, Management, and Adults with Autism,” a book chapter by Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Benjamin DiCicco-Bloom, was recently published in Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mid and Later Life (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ed. Scott Wright).

The Hamilton community this week welcomed Everson Hull, ambassador of St. Kitts and Nevis to the Organization of American States, to meet with students and faculty involved with the upcoming spring break service trip to the island of Nevis, birthplace of Alexander Hamilton. The trip will be led by a Hamilton student service organization with support from Amy James and the Community Outreach and Opportunity Project (COOP).

Hamilton’s Department of Dance and Movement Studies will present its annual Spring Dance Concert on Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The performance will feature student dancers and choreography by Hamilton faculty Sandra Stanton-Cotter, Bruce Walczyk and Paris Wilcox ’95 in addition to guest choreographers Chuyun Oh, Jeremy Raia and Catherine Wright.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presented an invited lecture titled “Every Time I Write A Rhyme, These People Think It’s a Crime: Transgressive Poetics and Self-Representation in Catullus and Eminem” as part of Illinois Wesleyan University’s Ides Lecture Series in Greek and Roman Studies.

Though the winter weather in Upstate New York this year has been nothing but sporadic and unpredictable, it has not stopped the Hamilton Outing Club from getting into the woods and playing in the snow. However, since winter conditions in the Upstate region are usually much colder and snowier than fall or spring conditions, student Outing  Club leaders who have been trained to handle mild fall weather must be trained with a different skill to handle most extreme winter conditions.

Melanie Hawthorne, Cornerstone Professor of French in Texas A&M’s Department of International Studies, will present a lecture titled “Forgetting Gisèle d’Estoc: Lessons in Cultural Memory,” on Thursday, March 3, at 4:10 p.m. in Taylor Science Center room 3042. The lecture is sponsored by Hamilton’s Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.

Students on the Hamilton Program in New York City explored contrasting lifestyles  of the early 1900s when they  recently visited the Museum of the City of New York and the J.P. Morgan Library and Museum.

A photo from the Desert Eyes Project appears on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering Website banner. The photo, part of a rotating series, shows Barbara Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and professor of geosciences, and Claire Sayler ’12 doing fieldwork in Egypt.