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Mihaela Petrescu, visiting assistant professor of German, organized the panel “From Femme Fragile to Vamp: Cultural Representations of Women during the Weimar Republic” at the 31st annual German Studies Association, held in San Diego on Oct. 4-7. Petrescu also presented a paper titled  “A Vamp's Favorite Pastime”  in which she scrutinizes the role of the Charleston in Alexander Corda's forgotten dance melodrama "Madame wuenscht keine Kinder” (Madam does not want any children, 1927).

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck gave an invited lecture titled “Magic and Mysticism in Morisco Manuscripts” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She also attended the Mid-America Conference of Hispanic Literatures at the same university where she gave a paper titled “Marvelous Fruit: Magic, Maryand the Libros plúmbeos.”

For the third consecutive fall, dozens of Hamilton students are organizing, coaching and refereeing a youth soccer league in Utica. Cornhill Youth Soccer (CYS) is a full-scale soccer league supported completely by Hamilton students.

Hamilton College has been awarded two related grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will support the work of Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Professor of Geosciences, and Assistant Professor of Biology Michael McCormick. Both grants will be applied to a series of research expeditions to Antarctica for which Domack will serve as chief scientist as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) International Polar Year program.

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.