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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.

Mark Zupan, captain of the U.S. Quadriplegic Rugby Team and star of the critically acclaimed documentary Murderball, will visit Hamilton College for a lecture and a question and answer session on Monday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The event, sponsored by the Dean of Student’s Office, The President’s Office and the Campus Activities Board, is free and open to the public. This is a rescheduling of a lecture that was to be held in April.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner presented a lecture at the 34th Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on October 5 in Binghamton. The title of his talk was "Gas-Phase Atmospheric Computational Chemistry," and was part of the Environmental Symposium. Kirschner's lecture covered atmospheric topics ranging from calculating anharmonic frequencies of small water clusters to exploring the reaction of the hydroxyl radical with methane and isoprene. This research was conducted over the past three years in collaboration with Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and by many Hamilton students, including Tim Evans '05, Frank Pickard '05, Meghan Dunn '06, Mary Beth Day '07, Marco Allodi '08, Kristin Alongi '08, Greg Hartt '08, Jovan Livada '08, Ngoda Manongi '08, Daniel Tomb '08, Alexa Ashworth '09, David Hamilton '09, Jared Pienkos '09, Andrew Beyler '10, and Tom Morrell '10.

The Hamilton Performing Arts at Hamilton Contemporary Voices and Visions Series has cancelled Village Ki-Yi Troupe’s performance of Sogolon, originally scheduled for Saturday, October 14 at 8 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the campus of Hamilton College. Ticket holders should call the box office at (315) 859-4331 for a refund.

Students in Economics Professor Ann Owen's monetary policy class attended a seminar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan on Oct. 10. They heard presentations by Federal Reserve economists and officials about the implementation of monetary policy, current economic conditions, fiscal policy considerations for monetary policy, the current state of the labor market and its implications for policy, as well as a general discussion of interest rates. The students attended the seminar to help prepare them for the College Fed Challenge, a national competition in which college students make presentations that provide economic analysis and a recommendation for monetary policy to finance professionals and policy makers. The first round of the competition will be held at the end of the month.

Brian Sweeney ’06 presented a paper at a meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) on Euripides’ Medea and the movie "Kill Bill." Sweeney originally did the paper for Professor of Classics Barbara Gold’s Greek class last year. Gold and Carl Rubino, Edward North Professor of Classics and president of the CAAS, attended the meeting. Sweeney is currently pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Chicago.