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Steven Pinker, Harvard College professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, will give the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture at Hamilton on Monday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. in the College Chapel. His lecture, titled “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature” is free and open to the public.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin gave a workshop on CFL Classroom Elicitation and Teachers' Questioning Strategies at Arizona State University on Sept. 18. The workshop was jointly sponsored by ASU's Chinese Language Flagship Program, the ASU Chinese Program, the ASU Confucius Institute, and the Chinese School of Greater Phoenix Area.

Prints by Professors of Art William Salzillo and Bruce Muirhead have been accepted in the second International Juried Printmaking Exhibition titled “Prints for Peace 09.” The show, which includes works by 280 artists from 48 countries, is open through October in the Gallery Leopoldo Carpinteyro de Cultural in Monterrey, Mexico.

Winslow Professor of Classics Carl Rubino gave an invited lecture on Sept. 17 at Mohawk Valley Community College titled “It Is Your Destiny: Star Wars and Greek and Roman Myth.”

The National Science Foundation-funded LARISSA project, for which Eugene Domack is principal investigator, was the focus of an article, titled “New scientific mode - LARISSA represents one of the biggest IPY projects,” posted on Sept. 18 in The Antarctic Sun. The article detailed the project’s next expedition, beginning January 2010, which will bring together more than 30 scientists.

Hamilton College will host a Gospel Music Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in the college chapel as the culminating event of Hamilton’s 11th Annual Gospel Choir Workshop. This event is free and open to the public. 

An opinion piece titled “Students take part in community-based learning courses” and written by Levitt Center Associate Director of Community Research Judith Owens-Manley appeared in the Utica Observer-Dispatch on Sunday, Sept. 5. In a follow-up opinion piece titled “College students prove tremendous asset to area” that appeared in the Observer-Dispatch, a former Utica-based Americorps VISTA worker wrote about Hamilton alumna volunteer Haley Reimbold '06.

Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) Green Week continues on Sept. 22 with a lecture by Professor of Biology Ernest Williams at 7:30 p.m. in Glen House. Williams will discuss his environmental involvement around Hamilton and the Utica area.

Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper on the concept of experience at the second Nordic Pragmatism Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, in August.

The Classical Connections Performing Arts Series at Hamilton College continues with the early music vocal group Pomerium on Friday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.