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Baratunde Thurston, The Onion’s Web/Politics editor, will host a discussion at Hamilton College about political humor and the effect of new media on progressive politics on Tuesday, April 20, at 7 p.m., in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson building. The lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton College Democrats and is free and open to the public.

“Sue Beevers: Quilt Bliss,” an exhibition of art quilts, paintings and textile designs by Sue Beevers ’97, a lecturer in music performance, is on display through May 6, at Utica College’s Edith Langley Barrett Fine Art Gallery.

Cracking his first joke of many, Paul Lieberstein said that “it’s like a bizarre reunion where I’m the only one who’s aged,” referring to the standing-room only crowd in Wellin Hall on April 16. Lieberstein graduated from Hamilton in 1989 with a degree in economics, but, as everyone in the audience was well-aware, he became a household name not as an auditor but as a writer and actor on the hit NBC show The Office. Ultimately getting to that destination, however, was not easy: Lieberstein had to climb over and sidle past unhelpful career counselors, dead-end bank jobs, crazed bosses, incompetent agents and Los Angeles itself.

Janet Simons, associate director of Institutional Technology and co-director of the Digital Humanities Initiative, Graphic Design Instructional Technologist Krista Siniscarco, Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Library Marketing/Outreach Kristin Strohmeyer and Gabriela Arias ’11 participated in the Media Scholarship in the Liberal Arts workshop held in March at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole L. Snyder presented research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco in March. Her talk was titled “Synthesis of carbohydrate-porphyrins conjugates via palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling approach.”

Paul Lieberstein ’89, Toby Flenderson of NBC’s “The Office” visited Hamilton on April 16 for a sold-out lecture sponsored by the Campus Activities Board. During the afternoon Lieberstein took some time to talk with students from various Hamilton media organizations and toured the campus.

The journal Polity has published an essay written by Associate Professor of Government Robert W. T. Martin in its April issue.

Sudipta Sen, professor of history at the University of California, Davis, will present a lecture titled “Sacred Drops: History, Ecology, and the Ganga” on Friday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., in KJ 102. It is free and open to the public.

In an April 15 visit to Hamilton College, Senior Vice President and President of Merrill Lynch Global Research Candace Browning Platt P'10 gave an honest and engaging lecture on her career and the advice that she would like to pass down to those interested in finance.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson has co-authored a book with University of California Berkeley Professor Michael Nylan titled Lives of Confucius: Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages (Doubleday Religion, 4/10).