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The 32 students in Hamilton's Ecology class (Biology 237) enjoyed beautiful, unseasonably warm weather when they made their annual trek to the top of Whiteface Mountain on Sunday, Sept. 23. The instructors are Associate Professor of Biology Bill Pfitsch and Biology Professor Ernest Williams, Jr., and they were joined by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole Snyder and Valentin Sukhare, postdoctoral associate in chemistry.

Sandra Steingraber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College, will give a lecture titled “Living Downstream,” on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Filllius Events Barn at Hamilton College. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project at Hamilton College and the Kirkland Endowment. 

Hamilton's Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is sponsoring a number of activities to celebrate Green Week, Sept. 24-30.

Two Hamilton graduates are quoted, and their companies featured, in the Oct. 7th special issue of Fortune magazine devoted to leadership. In an article titled “Leader Machines,” writer Geoff Colvin asserts “… the world’s best companies are realizing that no matter what business they’re in, their real business is building leaders.”

In an opinion piece that appeared on Saturday, Sept. 22, in Utica's Observer-Dispatch titled "Warmer world could mean shorter winters for region," Professor of Biology Ernest Williams explained what the economic effects of global warming might mean for central New York.

Hamilton's English Department is sponsoring a James Joyce Symposium on Saturday, Sept. 29, in celebration of English Professor Austin Briggs’ 50 years of teaching. Briggs is an expert on Irish writer/poet James Joyce, the author of the novel Ulysses. The symposium will feature four panel discussions with Joyce experts from all over the U.S. All sessions will take place in the Red Pit in Kirner-Johnson and are open to the community.

Nikki Reynolds, director of Instructional Technology Support Services, and Susan Mason, director of the Oral Communication Center and of the Education Studies Program, presented at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education Conference in September at Middlebury College. Their presentation, “Seeding a TaLC: Hamilton College’s Collaborative Initiatives in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," addressed Hamilton’s approach to the integration of academic resources offered by Instructional Technology, the reference librarians and the Oral Communication Center and Lab. 

Hamilton College performed the first test of a campus-wide emergency communication system on Thursday. The system delivered a test voice message to campus landline phones, student, faculty, administrator and staff cell phones and faculty, administrator and staff home telephones. It also sent an e-mail message to the entire campus community.

Students gathered outside of Commons Dining Hall on September 21 to show their support for the Jena Six, the six African-American high school students accused of beating a white classmate in Jena, La., in 2006.  The Black Student Union urged participants to wear black t-shirts and BSU members collected signatures of support on an online petition and distributed information about the Jena Six case.

Conrad Anker, renowned climber and author of The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest, will present a talk by the same title on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in K-J Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.