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Students in the Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain program (HCAYS) visited the Royal Gardens of La Granja. The excursion included visits to Salamanca, Segovia and a national park at the Sierra near Madrid.

Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Computer Science Stuart Hirshfield, along with seven students, attended the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing Conference Oct. 2 – 5 in Minneapolis.

Hamilton food service provider Bon Appétit Management Co. was named to the Daily Meal’s 60 Best Colleges for Food in America list for 2013. Hamilton College ranks 49th on the list.

Assistant Professors of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons and Andrew Dykstra presented invited research talks at the fall southeastern sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society.

Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, was featured in a New York Times editorial, “Monarchs Fight for Their Lives,” published on Sunday, Oct. 13. Written by Verlyn Klinkenborg, the essay addressed the threats to the long-term survival of the butterfly.

In an essay on Huffington Post titled “The Godfather of All Encyclopedias,” President Joan Hinde Stewart wrote about “one of the greatest of the Enlightenment philosophers, Denis Diderot,” and the “dazzlingly original series of works that range in their subject matter from religion to science and morality” that are his legacy.

On Oct. 2, NYC Program students crowded around a Saks, Inc., conference room table with CEO and Hamilton alumnus and board chair Steve Sadove ’73 P’07,’10,’13.  Sadove spoke about his successful career in marketing and management before fielding questions from the group.

More than 45 Hamilton students and employees took part in the first Alexandra Kogut Memorial 5K charity walk and run on Oct. 12 at SUNY IT. The event was in honor of Kogut, a 2012 New Hartford Senior High School graduate who was killed inside her dorm room at SUNY Brockport last year.

“Country and Bluegrass” is the theme of the fourth session in the America’s Music film history screenings and musical performances, sponsored by the Kirkland Town Library (KTL) and Hamilton’s Burke Library.

David Baker, professor of English at Denison University, will read from his work on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.  Baker holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison.  His lecture is as part of the English and Creative Writing Department’s Reading Series and is free and open to the public.