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Hamilton's Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is sponsoring a number of activities to celebrate Green Week, Sept 29-Oct. 3.  To start things off on Monday, Sept. 29, HEAG is hosting a lecture, "Colony Collapse Disorder in Honey Bees: The Tip of the Iceberg," by Dr. John P. Burand, associate professor of entomology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Chemistry students from Hamilton and Colgate participated in a symposium, called CHOG, in which they presented short talks describing their summer research in organic chemistry during 2008 on Sept. 26. Presenting Hamilton students included David Brown, Louisa Brown, Michael Flanders, James Greisler, Graham Hone, Tom Irvin, Amy Klockowski, Lydia Rono, Ben Van Arnam, and Keith Willner. Their research was carried out under the direction of Professors Robin Kinnel, Ian Rosenstein and Nicole Snyder.

Kishi Animashaun Ducre, assistant professor of African Studies at Syracuse University, addressed the Hamilton community in a lecture titled "How to Become a Professional Hellraiser" on Sept. 27. Professor Ducre's presentation discussed activism within the field of environmental justice, providing her audience with a background of the field's pertinent social issues and emphasizing the importance of incorporating activism within a diverse range of careers. 

An opinion piece written by Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo appeared in The Providence Journal on Saturday, Sept. 27, and in the Syracuse Post-Standard on Monday, Sept. 29, titled "Palins redefine paterfamilias" and "Palins shake up gender role debate" respectively.

Hamilton in New York students enjoyed the premiere of the Metropolitan Opera's 2008 season with a thrilling performance of Salome on Sept. 23. The Metropolitan Opera performance was one of several cultural activities sponsored by Kevin '70 and Karen Kennedy for the students participating in the Program in New York.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Jacqueline Brown is one of 13 artists participating in a group exhibition titled "Almost Famous" at the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Va. The show will be open through October 11. "Almost Famous" features select graduates from the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Hamilton College placed seventh at St. Lawrence University's 15-team Ronald C. Hoffman Invitational in Canton, N.Y., on Sept. 27.

Hamilton senior Eric Kuhn, in his role as a contributor to UWIRE, reported on the student reaction on and off campus to the first presidential debate held Friday, Sept. 26. The video which he produced is posted on The Washington Post's Youth "Vote '08" site and is part of a group of five videos produced by UWIRE reporters across the country.

Author Preeta Samarasan '98 will read from her novel, Evening Is The Whole Day, (Houghton Mifflin, May 2008) on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the American Library in Paris, 10 rue du Général Camou (in the 7th arrondissement). It is free and open to the public.

Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, attended the "Victorian Literature and Culture: Bodies and Things" conference on Sept. 27 at Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK. Rohrbach gave a paper titled "Byron and the Future of the Museum," which explored the "aesthetics of history" in Byron's comic epic Don Juan in relation to the early 19th century rise of the modern museum as a form of historical knowledge. In Don Juan, Byron envisions a future in which an archaeological dig would uncover the body of George IV as a historical relic for a "new museum"; the comic image, she suggested, registers the poet's aversion to the politics of the burgeoning museum culture.