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Hamilton College has announced that the Alexander Hamilton Center will not be established at this time due to a lack of consensus about institutional oversight of the Center as a Hamilton program. The College administration and trustees believed the Alexander Hamilton Center to have significant potential to enhance the educational experience of Hamilton students and regret that it is not going forward. We are hopeful that -- even in the absence of a formal center structure -- some of the programming that was envisioned can still be realized.

The Department of Music at Hamilton College presents the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus. The ensemble, under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s St. Paul. Featured soloists are Tim LeFebre, Janet Brown and Todd Greer.

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams presented a paper on a panel at the 92nd National Communication Association annual convention held in San Antonio. The convention’s theme was “Creating Sites for Connection and Action.” Adams’s panel addressed “the role of rhetorical theory and rhetoricians in creating sites of connection and action both within and beyond the academy.” His presentation, titled “Hope, Truth, and Rhetoric: Prophecy and Pragmatism in Service of Feminism’s Cause” broadly addressed the role of prophetic rhetoric in feminism’s foundational discourses and the contemporary role of epideictic rhetoric in effectively displaying its ‘truths actualized’ through the public commemoration of particular feminists’ deeds.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was interviewed for a Newhouse News Service article about holiday willpower (11/20/06). "We have to have resolve, the will to resist - where does that hope come from?" said Ravven, who studies the history of free will. The article appeared in the Syracuse Post-Standard and St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Marco Allodi '08, Jovan Livada '08, and Meghan Dunn '06 recently published a paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A with their faculty research advisors. Allodi was first author, Dunn second, and Livada third. The paper, "Do Hydroxyl Radical-Water Clusters, OH(H2O)n, n=1-5, Exist in the Atmosphere?" explores the effects of hydration on the hydroxyl radical.

Professor of History Maurice Isserman presented a lecture titled "Cold War in a Cold Place: The American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963" at Dartmouth College on November 15. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Henry and Amy Nachman Fund in History and the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club.

Armando Bayolo, visiting assistant professor of music, conducted the Great Noise Ensemble in the second concert of their 2006-07 season on November 17 in Washington, D.C. The program consisted entirely of world premieres and included one of Bayolo's own works, Ritornello, based on music by the German Baroque composer Michael Praetorius. The program also included the premieres of works by Heather Figi and Blair Goins (both members of Great Noise) and the world premiere of General Electric, a "rock concerto grosso" for rock band and chamber orchestra by award winning composer D.J. Sparr.

Hamilton will name the Annex, the multipurpose facility adjoining the Beinecke Student Activities Village, the Patricia and Winton Tolles Pavilion in honor of the former long-time dean and his wife. The ceremony officially celebrating the rededication will occur at 4:30 p.m., on June 1 during Reunion Weekend.

Visiting Professor of English Scott MacDonald presented documentary filmmaker William Greaves with the annual Leo Award for lifetime achievement in documentary filmmaking at the Lincoln Center’s Walter Reed Theater on Thursday, Nov. 16. Named after pioneer of independent and non-theatrical film distribution Leo Dratfield, the Leo is awarded by International Film Seminars. The recipient must "show a sustained ability to introduce innovative approaches into the media arts field."

The Corning Museum of Glass recently unveiled Josh Simpson’s Megaplanet, the 1000th paperweight in the museum's collection of paperweights. Simpson’s Planet is the focal point of the Museum’s new exhibit, Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight. The paperweight is 13 inches in diameter, weighs more than 100 pounds, and contains more than 50 different colors of glass. The planet is a clear orb with swirling oceans, continents, spaceships in orbit, and many objects that can be left up to the imagination.