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Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh recently exhibited in "Existing to Remain" at the District of Columbia Art Center in Washington D.C. The show opened February 25 and runs until April 3, when Murtaugh will give a public artist’s lecture at the gallery.

The Hamilton College Distinguished Writers Series presents author and Middlebury College professor John Elder, reading from his own and other authors' works, on Wednesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. His talk is titled "Landscape and Memoir."

Dr. Peter A Burke, the senior vice president and chief technology officer of STERIS Corporation, visited Hamilton College on February 26 to present a lecture titled “Bioterrorism: Challenges of Detection & Decontamination.” STERIS, a global leader in contamination prevention products and services, employs more than 5,000 people world wide and has annual sales of more than $1 billion.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya gave a talk, "LF-incorporation is not plausible," at Penn Linguistics Colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania in February. If human language is universal and identical at some level of representation (especially, interpretations), the differences are accounted for by parameterizing derivations.  As evidence he provided word formation patterns and nonsentential answers with respect to case marking.  In his study, case marking in Japanese takes place at phonological form, while English case marking takes place in narrow syntactic derivations. 

Dr. Leila Talani, the director of studies for the politics with economics programme of the department of European studies at the University of Bath, U.K., and a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, spoke at Hamilton on February 27. She presented a lecture titled "The Dollar, the Euro, and the Future of European Integration” in the Fillius Events Barn. Prof. Didar Erdinc of the economics department and Prof. Alan Cafruny of Hamilton’s government department served as hosts and commentators for Talani’s lecture.

Elizabeth Castelli, associate professor of religion at Barnard College, presented the Department of Classics’ Winslow Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. Castelli explained that her lecture, originally titled “Martyrdom and Meaning-Making in Ancient and Contemporary Christian Contexts,” would take on slightly different concepts and topics; her discussion would not be limited to Christian contexts but rather extended to contemporary U.S. foreign policy and the use of torture.

Lawrence Prelli, a professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire, presented a lecture titled "Visualizing Facts and Metaphors in the U.S.-Canada Gulf of Maine Boundary Case," on Feb. 22 in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium.

Dr. Mitchell D. Erickson, director of Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML) in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will give a lecture, "Homeland Security: Guards, Guns, AND Research? DHS Science and Technology for Rad/Nuc Counterterrorism," on Friday, Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. in the Science 1066. The lecture is free and open to the public. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Chemistry Department.  

Hamilton seniors Zachary Hesse and David Gordon presented the findings of their Emerson Grant Research Project, "A Life Cycle Assessment Comparison of Biodiesel vs. Diesel Use at Hamilton College," to an audience of students, faculty and staff on Feb. 23. Hesse and Gordon, whose interest in the topic was sparked by a class in Industrial Ecology, used a technique called "life cycle assessment" to evaluate the environmental effects of using biodiesel at Hamilton as opposed to traditional petroleum diesel. Their presentation argued that biodiesel use is not only feasible at Hamilton, but that it would be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than petroleum diesel use. 

Video artist and writer Kathleen Sweeney gave a multimedia presentation called "Maiden USA" about the evolution of the iconic American teenage girl on Feb. 21 at Hamilton. Sweeney has been studying the teenage girl icon in popular culture for 10 years, and mentors young women the Seattle filmmaking program "Reel Grrls" to help them express their vision of what it means to be a teenage girl.