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Deborah Forte '75, Hamilton trustee and president of Scholastic Media, Inc. is the producer of The Golden Compass which will be released by New Line Cinema on December 7, 2007. Hamilton alumni and parents will have the opportunity for a sneak preview of clips from the movie and participate in a discussion with the producer as part of a Hamilton event "Storytelling: Infusing Words with Life," taking place at 11:15 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Princeton Club in New York City.  

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman attended the premiere presentation of his new work "m45" at the recent region 2 conference of the Society of Composers at Queens College. This composition was recorded by the composer with virtual instruments tuned according to an alternative arithmetic scheme. Another feature of the work is that most of the sounds are sonifications of one-dimensional cellular automata.  Listen to a recording of the piece.

Cold weather and snow flurries didn't keep gardening enthusiasts away as the inaugural fall planting of the Community Farm Garden took place on Nov. 17. Approximately 25 gardeners, including students, faculty and President Joan Hinde Stewart, braved temperatures in the 30s and a fresh snow to plant a great variety of flower bulbs and a number of beds of garlic.

Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton gave a presentation on the career of ballet star and Commander of the British Empire (CBE) Frederic Franklin at the first open house of Dance Theatre of Harlem's (DTH) 2007/08 season on Nov. 11 in New York. This performance was dedicated to Franklin, celebrating his pivotal role in bringing this ballet company to international stature.

Linking theory and practice was the goal of the "Real World Panel Series" that students in Lecturer in Communication Susan Mason's Organizational Communication class planned and facilitated over the last four weeks. By bringing together both on- and off-campus speakers, students developed panels that offered unique insights into various areas of organizational communication.

During Fallcoming Weekend '07, the Alumni Council accepted by a unanimous vote the Nominations Committee's nominations for Bell Ringer and for the Distinguished Service Award.  The committee also selected a recipient for the College Key Award.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was a symposium speaker at the official opening of the Michael Harrington papers at NYU's Tamiment Library on Thursday, Nov. 15. He spoke along with Todd Gitlin of Columbia University and syndicated Washington Post columnist and Brookings Institution fellow E.J. Dionne.

At the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), held at Dartmouth College in October, Professor of French John C. O'Neal was elected president of the Society. His last term as president was in 1992-1993. Currently, O'Neal is also serving as president of the Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies, which is the French caucus of the national society, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. NEASECS has the largest membership of the regional societies affiliated with the national society. He chairs the French Department at Hamilton.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, chaired a panel "Experimental and Studies of Task-based Instruction: Roles and Effects of Task Nature, Conditions, Process and Procedures" at the annual ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) Conference in San Antonio in November.

The published work of Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, was cited in the recently released IPCC Climate Report, The Physical Science Basis, (Chapter 6 Palaeoclimate). The IPCC is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that issues state of the earth's climate reports based upon the recent scientific findings, greenhouse gas emissions and predictions for the future of the earth's climate. The final report of the organization was issued on November 17. Jonathan Overpeck '79 is a coordinating lead author for the Palaeoclimate chapter. A scientist at the University of Arizona, he was one of the international body of climate scientists who authored the first IPCC report.