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Environmental studies major Pat Dunn ’12 left for Tanzania on Aug. 25 to study wildlife conservation and political ecology on a School for International Training program run by the Institute for World Learning. He is part of a group of approximately 20 U.S. students who will travel as a unit, reading, listening to lectures and visiting sites that are significant to current ecological issues in the country. On the eve of his departure, Dunn began a blog which, when access is available, he will maintain throughout the program.

Since first-year students arrived for Adirondack Adventure and the Urban Service  Experience on August 13, the Hill has come to life, as Hamilton begins its 199th year. Move-in day, Hamilton Serves and Convocation were among highlights of opening week, pictured here.

Several prints by William R. Kenan Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead and Professor of Art William Salzillo have been selected for juried, national exhibitions in Annapolis, Cincinnati and Hawaii.

To modern-day feminists, the canon of authors and thinkers who contributed to the movement are well known and oft-repeated; Woolf, Gilbert and Gubar and de Beauvoir are a few. But Lexi Nisita ’12, in conjunction with an Emerson grant, is seeking to add one more name to this list: Emilie du Châtelet, a philosopher better known as Voltaire’s longtime companion.

Deep Sea corals grow very slowly and hence contain a record of changing oceanographic conditions over time. This summer Theresa Allinger '11 is conducting a geochemical analysis of these deep water corals from Antarctica that grew at 1500 feet below the surface of the Ross Sea.

Hamilton College’s Kayla Bettenhauser ’10 (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon HS) and Becca Green ’11 (Wynnewood, Pa./Lower Merion HS) were recognized by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association as part of the 2010 IWLCA Academic Honor Roll on August 19.

During the last academic year, Hamilton brought approximately 175 speakers to campus, from a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission to an award-winning journalist to a Fortune 500 CEO. They presented on myriad topics, from set design to federal budgeting. As a new academic year begins, a review of some of the past visitors and a look at those who will be on campus this year highlight the diversity of disciplines, views and interests represented on campus as well as the opportunities afforded our students and our community.

Former Hamilton College rower William Cowles ’09 competed at the 2010 U.S. National Selection Regatta held in West Windsor, N.J., on Mercer Lake from Aug. 19 to Aug. 21.

The French Revolution is truly one of the most idealized and glorified events in French history, having transformed the then-archaic governmental structure into one that fit with more modern values. But Stevie Brandon ’11, advised by Professor of History Esther Kanipe and supported by an Emerson grant, is analyzing an oft-ignored hierarchy that the Revolution changed forever: the French medical system.

Student shoppers were out early and in force on Aug. 24, as the third annual Cram & Scram reuse sale took place in Sage Rink. Everything from couches and refrigerators to desk lamps and rugs was for sale at bargain prices. The sale continues on Wednesday, Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to noon.