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Marge Petteys, a Bon Appétit employee from Commons, received national recognition at the Compass Group's Be a Star awards celebration in Orlando, Fla., on Nov. 10-12. Petteys won the ABC award, given to employees who go "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty" during the previous year. The Compass Group is a leading contract foodservice company that owns Bon Appétit.

A delegation of Hamilton students traveled to Seneca Falls to take part in the National Organization for Women's N.Y. State Annual Convention, Nov. 7-9. Susan Stanton '09 spoke on a panel with three other young feminists from other institutions about how to mobilize young women around feminist issues.

Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer was quoted in an InsideHighEd.com article, The Bubble That Didn't Burst, on Nov. 18 on the surprising increase in the number of early decision applications received by several colleges and universities including Hamilton.

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association held Nov. 13-16 in Chicago. The paper, titled "Sites of Memory and Narration on the World Wide Web: Building the Soweto '76 Digital Archive," focused on the development of a digital archive, Soweto '76, in collaboration with the Hector Pieterson Memorial & Museum (HPMM) in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This is the first in a series of articles featuring Hamilton's 2008-09 Senior Fellows. Hugh Charles Kavanagh makes being shy look like his day job. His best friend, Shawn, has a nasty tendency to upstage him without even trying. One day, a mysterious girl arrives to lead a reluctant Hugh to his destiny as the Ringmaster of the Midnight Circus. Hugh learns that the Midnight Circus is populated by people who don't physically age -- suspended in limbo as it fulfills its role as the land between logic and illogic, free will and predetermined destiny, protecting reality from all the things that go bump in the night.    -From Midnight Circus, by Nicole Dietsche '09

Two Hamilton College field hockey players were honored by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association on Nov. 17 when the organization selected its 2008 Longstreth/NFHCA Division III all-Region Teams.

Rick Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper, "The Right to Hope and the Ethics of Belief," at the 21st Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace at SUNY Cortland, Oct. 30-Nov. 2.

Pam Havens, director of donor relations, was honored with The Association of Donor Relations Professionals (ADRP) Founders Award at the organization's international conference, held Nov. 11-13 in St. Louis. The Founders Award recognizes the highest ideals of the donor relations and stewardship profession. Recipients are individuals who, through a lifetime of work, have had a significant and inspiring impact on donor relations.

Three Hamilton faculty members will talk about "Local Food Matters: Food as Culture, Politics and Pleasure," on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Other Side, a community center located next to the Cafe Domenico, 2011 Genesee St. in Utica (across from the Uptown Theater). Professors David Gapp (biology), Naomi Guttman (English, creative writing) and Frank Sciacca (Russian Studies) will discuss some issues of interest to Slow Food enthusiasts, fans of Michael Pollan's books and lovers of good food.

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman, has been included on Amazon.com as one of the "Editors' Picks" top 10 outdoors and nature books for 2008.