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Hamilton College Philosophy Professor Robert Simon has been named to the advisory and editorial board for the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports. He is the only representative from a Division III college on the 13-member group, which was created by NCAA President Myles Brand.

The Hamilton College Contemporary Voices and Visions Series continues the spring season with a Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership presentation of Garth Fagan Dance on Saturday, February 10, at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark University, will give a lecture at Hamilton College titled “In the wake of the storm: Environment, Disaster and Race After Katrina.” The lecture will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the College Chapel.

Professor of Religious Studies Richard Hughes Seager presented a lecture, "The Globalization of Buddhist Humanism," at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies on January 27. It was sponsored by the Asian Institute and the Centre for the Study of Religion. Seager is the author of Encountering the Dharma (University of California Press, March, 2006) which offers a rare insider's look at Soka Gakkai Buddhism, and Buddhism in America (Columbia, 1999).

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz and Mary B. O'Neill, academic support coordinator and director of the Quantitative Literacy Center were invited panelists for the discussion “Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy: An Interdisciplinary Perspective” at the national joint meetings of The American Mathematical Society and The Mathematical Association of America in New Orleans last month.

Two senior psychology concentrators, Margaret Van Wyk and Tyler Zink, along with  Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton and Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Mark Oakes, presented a poster at the 8th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on Jan. 26 in Memphis, Tenn. The research described in the poster was conducted this past summer during Hamilton's summer science research program, and involved examining the effects of suppressing negative self-referent thoughts on implicit and explicit self-esteem.

Jonathan Overpeck '79 is one of the international body of climate scientists who authored the landmark U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, issued on Feb. 2 in Paris. The group for the first time asserts with 90 percent confidence that human activity has caused global warming. The report comes after six years of work and is built on a previous dozen years of study by hundreds of researchers from more than 100 nations. Overpeck, a scientist at the University of Arizona, was keynote speaker at Hamilton's Antarctic Peninsula Conference held on campus in April, 2002. In that lecture, Overpeck predicted major climate changes and warned of global warming consequences.

Hamilton College will participate for a third time in RecycleMania!, taking place this year from January 28 through April 27.  Hamilton is among 201 colleges and universities in 43 states participating this year. The intercollegiate recycling contest is supported by the Environmental Protection Agency’s WasteWise program, which is designed not only to encourage recycling, but to increase awareness of every student’s individual impact on the environment.

An installation titled “Breath,” created by Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh, is currently featured at the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Athens, Georgia. It is part of an exhibition titled “Transience: The Paradox of Being” that offers the perspectives of 16 artists whose work inspires contemplation of the universal issue of transience. The show was curated by Katy Logue Thompson and Chris MacKay.

Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager presented two papers in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in January.  His papers were titled "Tradition and Transformation: Asian Buddhism in the West: A Forum for Canadian Buddhists," and "Globalization of Nichiren Buddhism in Soka Gakkai International."  He delivered both papers at McGill University for the faculty of Religious Studies.