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The Emerson Gallery is hosting "Ernest Hemingway and Walker Evans: Three Weeks in Cuba, 1933" from Thursday, Feb. 15, through Sunday, April 15. The exhibition includes vintage photographic prints by Evans, only recently available for public viewing, along with notes and personal artifacts, left by Hemingway and found among his possessions after his death. An opening reception will be held in the Emerson Gallery on Thursday Feb. 22, from 4 to 6 p.m.  Both the reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public.

Bill Harley '77 won a Grammy on February 11 in the "Best Spoken Word Album For Children" category. The category is defined as being "For albums consisting of predominantly spoken word vs. music or song." Harley won for his album "Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs." He has been nominated for a Grammy twice before and is the author of a book Dear Santa. Harley returned to campus in 2002 to perform at Reunion Weekend.

Harry Hutson '69 is co-author of a book with Barbara Perry, Putting Hope to Work, that has been named one of 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007" by Harvard Business Review (HBR). The annual HBR list is a survey of emerging ideas that the editors "believe will shape and reshape business in the months and years to come." Hutson and Perry's goal in writing Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization’s Most Powerful Resource (Praeger, 2006) was to raise awareness and appreciation of the largely unexamined aspect of leadership by making it visible, discussable and actionable in organizational terms. 

Assistant professor of Theatre Mark Cryer will be performing his one man show, "99 Questions you've always wanted to ask an African American," at Bentley College, Clarke University and SUNY Geneseo as part of their Black History Month celebrations in February.

Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, and lecturer in Englsh, delivered "The Joys of Joyce: Reading Ulysses" at the Belles Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on January 30. The lecture, which was attended by more than 200 people, was sponsored by the San Miguel chapter of PEN International, an organization of 141 chapters in 101 countries that is dedicated to fighting for freedom of expression and to defending writers suffering from oppressive regimes around the world.

A service in memory of Russell Thorn Blackwood will be held in the College Chapel on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. A reception will follow in the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Campus Center.

Dr. Robert Bullard, Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, spoke at Hamilton on February 7. Bullard discussed the relationship between race and environment in a speech titled “In the Wake of the Storm: Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Populations before and after Disaster Strikes.”

"Highest Adventure," an article in the March issue of American Heritage magazine, tells the stories of the first Americans to summit Mount Everest.  History professor Maurice Isserman, who wrote the article, is also the co-author of a forthcoming book on Himalayan mountaineering.

Haley Reimbold ’06 and Courtney Johnson ’06 will facilitate the February 9 Think Tank titled “Utica, NY: Post Industrial Wasteland?” The discussion will center on Hamilton student experiences in Utica and student’s perceptions of the city. The facilitators will analyze interactions with the local community and explore possible venues for involvement and fun in Utica. The discussion will take place at noon in KJ 221. Lunch will be provided.

Following up on work carried out by Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel at the University of Hawaii during the spring of 2005, two students, Andrew Glossner '06 and Danielle Massee '07 completed the synthesis of a natural product isolated from the sponge Amphimedon compressa; this was reported at the meeting in a poster. In addition, Kinnel served as one of six judges for the poster prizes at this meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand, which took place from February 4 to February 10.