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Hamilton College announces its spring film and lecture series, F.I.L.M (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion), scheduled on Sunday afternoons and Tuesday evenings. All events are free and open to the public.

Eric Kuhn '09 will interview Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, on the college’s radio station WHCL 88.7 FM on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. The show can also be heard at www.whcl.org. Kuhn is soliciting questions from his audience for Koch. Because the show does not currently have call-in capabilities, Kuhn asks that all questions be sent to him at ekuhn@hamilton.edu.

It may be the middle of winter in Central New York, but the Hamilton College community is thinking 'Green.' RecycleMania, the annual 10-week recycling competition among colleges and universities across the United States, began Jan. 29. This event is organized and operated by campus recycling coordinators and supported by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise program.

Colonel Jeffrey E. Short, MD ‘81 will speak on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. in Science Center G041 about his career in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, emergency medicine, and aerospace medicine.  Short graduated from Hamilton Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. He has served in Somalia, Jordan, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Iraq, and many other posts in Europe and Asia, and this month he heads to Antarctica. During his medical career, Short received his MPH from Harvard, attended Jump School, flew combat maneuvers in T-37 and T-38 jets, worked for Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson in Washington, D.C. He serves on NASA's Space Shuttle Crash Rescue Team.

Mary (Bernardine) Dias '98 was featured in a January 30 SciDev.net article titled "Learning to listen: technology and poor communities," about TechBridgeWorld. It is the initiative she founded in 2004 to forge collaborations between Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and developing communities around the world in order to promote innovative ways of using technology in poor communities.

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund Committee recently awarded six grants totaling $34,020 to educational, cultural and public safety organizations in the Town of Kirkland. The fund has now disbursed more than $118,000 since grants were first awarded in fall 2001.

Laura Fortinsky ‘02 was recently featured in an article in the Pictorial Gazette in Old Lyme, Conn., for her work studying AIDS in Tanzania. Fortinsky spent 10 weeks working with a non-profit organization, Cross Cultural Solutions, to provide AIDS education in schools to help prevent spread of the epidemic. The article highlighted Fortinsky’s trip and her hopes to return to Tanzania within the next six months to continue her work there. Fortinksky is quoted in the article as saying, "I was really impressed with what I saw of the country. I felt a sort of connection to it. I knew then that I had to go back and spend more time with the people." -- by Molly Kane '09

Professor of Hispanic Studies Santiago Tejerina-Canal published an article "La 'super/ficción' de G.T.B. (y La saga/fuga de J.B.)" in La tabla redonda: Anuario de estudios torrentinos nº 3, 2005, pp. 83-104, a yearly Spanish literary review entirely devoted to Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History Maurice Isserman's book, "America Divided: The Civil War of the Sixties," is listed in a Jan. 24 article in the National Review titled, "A Right Man’s Left-Hand Library," written by editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg. The article's focus is to recommend the best books on the history of liberalism in America from the writer's perspective.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio this January. Her talk "Connecting the isometric embedding dimension and the determining number of a graph," outlined two distinct areas of her research and introduced a surprising link between them. Another area of Boutin's research was presented in a separate talk by coauthor Ellen Gethner, a computer scientist from the University of Colorado at Denver. Gethner presented highlights of their ongoing work, including a new infinite family of minimal 9-chromatic thickness 2 graphs and a new, easily constructed, family of graphs in which every thickness 2 graph is contained as a subgraph.