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Sharon Williams, director of the Writing Center, participated in the Ivy League Plus Consortium's annual meeting, a gathering for writing program faculty and administrators from Ivy League and selective liberal arts colleges at Cornell University on Oct. 7. She gave the keynote presentation: "Hamilton College's Longitudinal Study of Student Writing: A Tale of Choice and Consequences."

Renowned choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones presented the annual Hansmann Lecture in the Hamilton College Chapel on Saturday, Oct. 14. In Jones’s lecture, titled “The Persistence of Questioning: A Survival Technique Finding a Place Where Thought and Action Meet,” he spoke about his career in dance and the meaning of modern art. The event was part of the weekend’s dedication ceremonies for the new Charlean and Wayland Blood Fitness and Dance Center.

The Emerson Gallery will host an artist’s talk by Native Perspectives artist Shelley Niro (Mohawk). Niro will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 4:15 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

The Huffington Post published an article written by sophomore Eric Kuhn titled “Coming Up at the Bottom of the Hour: Global Warming” on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Other articles included on that day’s political group blog were written by U.S. Senator John Kerry, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson and Arianna Huffington among others. Besides the main blog, Kuhn’s article was also featured on Eat the Press, a blog on The Huffington Post that examines the media.

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin wrote an article that was published in the peer reviewed Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, October, 2006, Vol. 41;3 PP35-56. The article, titled "Multimedia Effects and Chinese Character Processing: An Empirical Study of CFL Learners from Three Different Orthographic Backgrounds," concerns a study that examined the effects of multimedia presentation on Chinese character recognition.

A new exhibit in the Daniel Burke Library commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 1906 murder of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks, a story that became the basis for Theodore Dreisser's novel, An American Tragedy. Chester Gillette, Grace Brown's lover, was tried and convicted for murder and executed in 1908. Marking the 100th anniversary of the murder, Burke Library is displaying Grace's letters to Chester and other material used by the district attorney leading to Chester's conviction. The library exhibit was made possible by Ward Halverson '92, the great-grandson of the Herkimer County district attorney, who entrusted Burke Library with the preservation of Grace's letters and other materials.

An avowed early American history enthusiast, Hamilton College alumnus and life trustee Carl Menges ’51 has made a commitment of $3.6 million to support the newly established Alexander Hamilton Center (AHC) at the college. Inspired by Alexander Hamilton’s life and work, the AHC seeks to "promote excellence in scholarship through the study of freedom, democracy and capitalism as these ideas were developed and institutionalized in the United States and within the larger tradition of Western culture," according to the center’s charter.

The Continental, a glossy, four-color magazine devoted to the arts, style and student life is debuting on Friday, October 13. The first issue will feature great fall activities, entertainment reviews, where to exercise and enjoy the outdoors, the Clinton bar scene, fall fashion and a suggested weekend getaway.

"Vaporis congeries magnae," a video/digital music collaboration by Professor of Music Samuel Pellman and Lauren Koss '00 has been selected for presentation by the Cologne Online Film Festival. The festival, which opens on October 13, features an international group of artists whose works explore the relationships between sound and video and how they each use the dimension of time. See link below for more information about the festival and the Pellman/Koss work.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo conducted the Great Noise Ensemble on Saturday, Oct. 7, in Washington, D.C., in a concert honoring the 70th birthday of American composer Steve Reich. The program was the only event in the Washington, D.C., region honoring Reich, who has been called "America's greatest living composer" by the Village Voice. The Great Noise Ensemble is a group dedicated to the performance of contemporary concert music founded in 2005 by Bayolo, who is currently the group's music director.