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Nadine Amsel '08 and Rachael Arnold '08 were invited to the first Conference for Undergraduate Women in Computer Science (OurCS) on Oct. 5-7 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the conference provided opportunities for undergraduate women to work on exploratory projects in teams led by researchers from industry and academia. Amsel and Arnold met with the keynote speaker Frances Allen, IBM fellow emerita, and the first woman to receive the nation's top computer science prize, the 2006 Turing Award.

The water ways of central New York serve as important laboratories for the study of natural change and societal impacts upon local, regional and even global environment. Hamilton, through the combined support of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (via the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board), now has a vessel capable of providing access to our regional lakes and rivers for the purposes of teaching and research.

Carl A. Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, presided over the centennial meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4-7. Rubino is president of the organization.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin gave a keynote speech, “Challenges and Changes in K-16 Chinese Language Instruction,” at a professional development workshop for K-16 Chinese Language Teachers in Madison, Wis. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages & Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with support from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC grant.

Members of Biology 237, an ecology class, conducted a study in Clinton's Oriskany Creek in September. They compared pool and riffle habitats of the stream in the conditions for life and the diversity and abundance of aquatic animals, according to Professor of Biology Ernest Williams. The students sampled the invertebrate animals and measured physical and chemical features of the stream at each sampling point.

The Hamilton College Departments of Music and Dance welcome parents and siblings to a busy weekend of free concerts in Wellin Hall for Family Weekend.  The Hamilton College Choir and College Hill Singers will share a program with the Department of Dance on Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. 

The students of College 220, “The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondacks,” took a field trip into the area they are studying on October 6-7. After stopping for a hike into the mountains just north of Keene Valley, the group traveled to John Brown’s farm at North Elba, where they heard something of Brown’s history from the caretaker, who also happened to be a distant descendant.

Peking University Press has issued a Chinese translation of the Companion to Narrative Theory, co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan (Ohio State University). The anthology, first published in English two years ago by Blackwell, takes stock of the state of narrative theory at the beginning of the 21st century. The book also includes a chapter by Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat, “I'm Spartacus!,” which explores the uses of Spartacus as a figure for freedom in literary, dance and film narratives.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owens recently published an article titled “Integrating Computer Applications into Economics Electives” in the International Review of Economics Education (Volume 6 Issue 1, 2007). The article advocates for a new way of teaching economics that emphasizes the use of active learning via statistics labs.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo conducted the Great Noise Ensemble in the first concert of its third season on Sunday, Sept. 30. Great Noise is a group dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music, which Bayolo founded in Washington, D.C., in 2005. The concert featured works for soloists and ensemble which display an instrumentalist's virtuosity. The ensemble was joined by the husband and wife team, Duo46 (Beth-Ileana Schneider, violin, and Matt Gould, guitar) in the world premiere of Bayolo's "Concerto a Due" for guitar, violin and chamber orchestra.