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Hamilton student Yinghan Ding ’12 served as a youth representative at the second Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, a conference hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that brought together U.S. and international governors, U.N. officials, senior officials in the Obama Administration and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Wlajimir “Jimmy” Alexis ’13 is the recipient of a prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship (GMS), which provides full financial support for the cost of undergraduate education for outstanding minority students with significant financial need. One thousand recipients were chosen from 40,000 applications in this year’s competition, the 10th.

The Contemporary Voices and Visions Series at Hamilton will present Pamela Z in Metal/Vox/Water, a solo multi-media performance for voice, electronics and video on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The eighth annual Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 25, on the Clinton Village Green from noon to 4 p.m. The event is organized annually by the Social Traditions Committee of the Hamilton College Student Assembly and is free and open to the public.

On the evening of October 14, students in the Program in Washington were welcomed into the office of Williams and Jensen, a leading government affairs law firm, for a presentation on politics and lobbying by principals George Baker ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89.

Mount Holyoke College Professor of Religion Heath Atchley will discuss “Disturbing the Secular,” on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, the second in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public.

Hamilton is hosting a multicultural affairs conference on Thursday, Oct. 22, and Friday, Oct. 23. Attendees include administrators from the 30 member colleges and universities of the Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS).

New York University Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies Eric Klinenberg presented a lecture on the “New Urban Crises” Wednesday evening in the Fillius Events Barn.  He addressed recently developing issues facing urban America, as a historically unprecedented number of America’s population now lives in or around major metropolitan areas.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department is hosting three lectures in a series called “Art and the Stage: Design for the Theatre.” They will all take place in Minor Theater on the Hamilton campus and are free and open to the public.

Sharon Williams, director of Hamilton's Writing Center, participated in the annual meeting of the Ivy Plus Writing Consortium held Oct. 16-17 at Brown University.