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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas wrote the introduction for the re-publication of Grenadian writer and educator Albert Marryshow’s Cycles of Civilization: A Refutation of General Jan Smuts Racist Theory.

Professional alpine climber and mountain guide Emilie Drinkwater visited Hamilton on March 3 to coach climbers on the rock wall and share her stories.  She works in the Adirondacks, the Tetons in Wyoming and Mount McKinley in Alaska.

Award-winning journalist Christopher Dickey will present a lecture, “Policing, Politics and Paranoia in Post 9/11 America,” on Thursday, March 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Dwight Lounge, Bristol Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Carl Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, gave talks at the Rome and Utica campuses of Mohawk Valley Community College on Feb. 27 and 28.  The talks, titled “Getting in Touch with the Force: Star Wars and the Ancient World,” were featured in MVCC's Spring Cultural Series as part of the college's Diversity and Global View Initiative.

Nearly 100 members of the Hamilton community took part in the annual America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk on March 1 at Utica College. The event drew more than 6,400 participants and raised more than $1 million for heart education and research. This is the 17th consecutive year that Utica College has hosted the event.

Ten Hamilton students designed outfits to compete in the second annual Trashion Show, organized by the Recycling Task Force, on March 2.  They pieced together garbage and recyclable items for their models to sport on the runway in front of the judges, four members of the Task Force.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Calin Trenkov-Wermuth ’00 participated in a roundtable discussion on challenges for European foreign and security policy at London’s Centre for European Reform (CER).

The Hamilton College Arboretum Association will present a workshop on advanced pruning on Saturday, March 1, at 10 a.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. This event is free, open to the public and sponsored by the College and its Arboretum Association. Pre-registration is not required.

Four members of Hamilton’s Figure Skating team will compete at the Eastern Intercollegiate Competition at Liberty University in Virginia this weekend. Erika Craven ’14, Hannah Tessler ’14, Marta Antoniv ’17 and Sharon Di ’17 will travel to the Virginia competition.

Buzzing around the auditorium before his presentation, Dr. Paul Linser amicably conversed with Hamilton students and professors about the weather, his visit to the Hill, and his perfectly waxed handlebar moustache. His lecture, which was part of the Levitt Series, took place on Feb. 27 in the Taylor Science Center.