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Hamilton College rowed in the Hobart/William Smith College Challenge on the Canal Regatta in Geneva, N.Y., on Oct. 4.

Hamilton College rowed in the Hobart/William Smith College Challenge on the Canal Regatta in Geneva, N.Y., on Oct. 4.

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the New York City Program Katheryn Doran and the Hamilton in NYC students visited the Museum of Modern Art on Oct. 6. They saw Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature Scott MacDonald's film exhibition and talk celebrating the publication of his 2008 book, Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor.

"Write on: Maurice Isserman," an interview of history professor Maurice Isserman, appeared on the Viewpoints page of the Observer-Dispatch, on Sunday, Oct. 5. On the same day, The New York Times Book Review listed Fallen Giants, Isserman's new book, co-authored with University of Rochester history professor Stewart Weaver, as an "editors' pick" of the week.

Robert S. Bloomer, Jr., a member of Hamilton's class of 1950, was honored as the College's Volunteer of the Year by the Alumni Association during a Fallcoming Weekend  luncheon on Oct. 3. Mark Rice '73, president of the Alumni Association, presented Bloomer with the award.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh exhibited three pieces from the Sweetest Battle and Seeing Stars series in Beautiful Losers at the Gallery RFD in Swainsboro, Ga. The gallery is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote economic enrichment in rural communities through the arts. The show was curated by the co-founders of shotgun-review.com, Joseph del Pesco and Scott Oliver, and ran from Sept. 11 through Oct. 4.

What happens when environmental damage affects not only public health, but the religious practices of an entire culture? This was the question addressed by David Haberman and Kelly Alley in Monday's panel discussion titled "A Flood of Opportunity: Polluted Sacred Rivers and Religious Environmentalism in India." 

Hamilton College placed eighth out of 16 teams in Hamilton's own fall invitational, which was held on Oct. 4 and 5.

Gustavo Arellano, contributing editor of The Los Angeles Times and author of the best-selling book, Ask a Mexican!, will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in  Hamilton's Fillius Events Barn. The lecture, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students and is free and open to the public.

A 2006 book to which Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds contributed a chapter, has been chosen as a winner of the Florida Publishers Association 2008 Book Awards. The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation was named in the best Adult Nonfiction category. Reynolds' chapter is on the class Scaphopoda, known as the tusk shell because of its hollow, curved, conical tube shape.