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Under former Inspector General of the Department of the Interior Earl E. Devaney, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB) has served as watchdog of  the $800 million American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.  Devaney described the board’s work in a lecture on March 7 that was part of the Levitt Center’s Security Program.

Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed, a new book by Visiting Assistant Professor of History John Ragosta, will be a featured alternate selection in the June catalog for the History Book Club. The book explores the centrality of the Jeffersonian vision to the development of religious freedom in America, responding to such critics as Justices Rehnquist and Thomas and Professors Akhil Amar and Daniel Dreisbach.

A poetry review by creative writing major Nick Geisler ’14 was published in the spring issue of Boxcar Poetry Review. “Greg Alan Brownderville’s Gust” appears in the online journal’s “Reviews & Responses” section.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton College Orchestra in the annual Brainstorm! concert, conducted by Heather Buchman on Sunday, March 10, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton’s Department of Dance and Movement Studies will present its annual Spring Dance Concert on Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and Performing Arts. The performance will feature student dancers and choreography by Hamilton faculty Elaine Heekin, Sandra Stanton, Bruce Walczyk and Paris Wilcox in addition to guest choreographer Mikhail Ilyin.

The lecture by Asle Toje, research director for the Norwegian Nobel Institute, originally scheduled for Thursday, March 7, has been rescheduled for Friday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center, room 3024. Toje's original flight from Iceland was cancelled.

Lawrence Chua, visiting assistant professor of art history, participated in several workshops recently. He presented from his ongoing research on leisure, race and nationalism in 20th-century Thai architecture at the Labour, Leisure, and Life Course from a Global Historical Perspective workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin, Feb. 13 to Feb. 15.

Dr. Cornel West, university professor, philosopher and influential intellectual, will present a lecture on Friday, March 8, at 5 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for the Performing Arts. The lecture will focus on the role of youth and pop culture in creating a democratic society. This lecture is sponsored by the Voices of Color Lecture Series, which honors C. Christine Johnson, former director of the Hamilton College HEOP Program.

Clothing constructed of everything from banana peels and straws to garbage bags and recyclable bottles hit the runway as the Recycling Task Force hosted Hamilton’s first “Trashion Show” on March 3. The show was part of Recyclemania, an eight-week program that encourages student to reevaluate their waste and improve recycling.

Members of the Hamilton community again supported the annual America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, held this year on March 2 in Utica. Donations are still being counted but Hamilton participants were among the 7,799 walkers and runners who raised about $1.1 million for the American Heart Association.