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Few people have trouble visually distinguishing a desk chair from a moving car, or the sounds of a crying baby and crashing waves. But could brain activity alone allow researchers to determine what novel stimuli a participant heard or saw? Although the proposition sounds more akin to a science-fiction blockbuster than a scientific possibility, Jack Gallant, of the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley, has spent decades focused on answering this question.

Twenty-four students from Hamilton College and several other colleges (including Williams, Swarthmore, Davidson and Grinnell) visited Galicia last week as part of Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain.

Rhodessa Jones, co-artistic director of the San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey and director of Cultural Odyssey’s Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and HIV Circle, will hold two free, public events as part of her residency at Hamilton, Sept. 15 - 18.

More than 125 Hamilton students took part in the 14th annual Hamilton Association for Volunteering Outreach and Charity (HAVOC) Make a Difference Day. Individual students, teams and groups signed up for a wide range of volunteer opportunities to engage in for the day.

This summer, Lillia McEnaney ’17 split her time excavating a Greek island and making three-dimensional models of stone inscriptions in Macedonia.  McEnaney was a field volunteer at Despotiko, a late archaic to early classical sanctuary to the Greek God Apollo in the middle of the Cycladic islands. She then participated in a field school at a Balkan Heritage Foundation course in Macedonia.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn presented a paper at the XXI Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. The program was held August 23-29 in Erfurt, Germany.

The Hamilton College community remembers the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the 14th anniversary of the tragedy.  Hamilton alumni Arthur Jones III '84,  Adam J. Lewis '87 and Sylvia San Pio Resta'95 were among those who lost their lives that day.

In the email below sent to the Hamilton community on Sept. 11, 2015, President Joan Hinde Stewart announced the death of Editor Emeritus Frank Lorenz. A memorial service celebrating his life will be held in the College Chapel on Monday, Sept. 28, at 11 a.m.

The work of Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will be on display this fall in exhibitions in New York, California and Washington, D.C.

Jack Gallant, Robert S. Morris Class of 1976 Visiting Fellow and an expert in the science of brain reading research, will present the Morris lecture on Monday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.