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LTC Margaret Stock, an associate professor in the social sciences department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, will present a lecture on “Immigration and the Law” on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. She is a speaker in the 2010-11 Levitt Center series which is focused on three thematically based programs: Security, Sustainability, and Inequality and Equity.

The Chinese journal Foreign Literature Studies has published a new essay co-authored by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan of Ohio State University: “‘A True Book, with Some Stretchers’”—and Some Humbug: Twain, Huck and the Reader’s Experience of Huckleberry Finn.”

Caitlin Taborda, Hamilton’s only Senior Fellow for the class of 2011, has begun her research on American food movements with regard to how different people make choices about the food they eat. Her project is titled “Local, Organic, and Sustainable Privilege: Understanding the Social Significance of Food Movements and the Socioeconomic Factors that Influence Participation.”

The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope, an award-winning film by director Mike Ramsdell, will be screened at Hamilton College on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium of the Kirner-Johnson Building. The screening will be followed by an open discussion with Mike Ramsdell, and is free and open to the public.

Bon Appétit, Hamilton’s food service provider, was recognized in a Utica Observer-Dispatch for its “eat local” efforts. On Sept. 28 Bon Appétit hosted its annual “Eat Local Challenge,” where all food served was grown within a 150-mile radius of campus.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ashleigh Smythe and Kelly Fitzsimmons ’10 recently presented papers at the Helminthological Society of Washington meeting in Washington, D.C. The Helminthological Society is the oldest parasitology society in the U.S. and this meeting coincided with the Society’s 100th anniversary.

Michael Kimmel, a leading researcher and writer on men and masculinity, will lecture at Hamilton College on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Guyland” and based on his book, is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Myriam Cotten and her team of Hamilton students spent 10 days this summer at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Fla., to study piscidin, antimicrobial peptides from fish. The team, comprised of Caitlin Burzynski ’12, Nina Kraus '13, Cotten, and Alex Dao ’12, used several state-of-the-art Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) instruments to obtain atomic-level information on samples of piscidin bound to lipid bilayers that mimic bacterial membranes.

More than 50 students from Hamilton College and the five other New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium’s member institutions gathered at Colgate University on Sept. 24 for a Student Diversity Leadership Conference. “This was the first major event sponsored by the New York Six, and it was a great success,” said Amy Cronin, special assistant to the presidents for the consortium.

On Oct. 8-10 members of the Hamilton Outing Club (HOC) attempted their annual goal of having at least one member of the Hamilton community atop each of the Adirondack 46 peaks. The High Peaks, in Essex and Franklin counties, are the 46 Adirondack Mountains that were traditionally believed to be higher than 4,000 feet, though surveying ultimately showed that four did not reach that height.