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Mark Sterner presented his lecture-program DUI: A Powerful Lesson, on January 25 in the Chapel. Sterner recounted how his senior year spring break trip in 1994 turned into a nightmare for him and his three fraternity brothers, Aaron, Pete and Jim, when they were involved in a drunk-driving car crash.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz presented a talk, "Products of concave functions," at the annual Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America on Jan. 5 in Atlanta. Kantrowitz was also invited to present a Kappa Mu Epsilon (undergraduate mathematics honor society) lecture, "What's up with functions that are concave down?," at Mississippi State University in January. At the request of the organizer of the lecture, he concluded with a 20-minute segment about student life at a small, private, liberal arts college in Central New York, "What's up with Hamilton College?"

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh was elected and appointed as a new board member to ThINC, a Syracuse, N.Y., arts and culture organization. ThINC aims to provide a venue and encouragement for the artistic expression of those working on new creative enterprises. ThINC is positioning Syracuse as a city that welcomes, nurtures and promotes emerging artists of all forms that express a desire to establish a more comfortable, intelligent, beautiful and sustainable community through their craft.

Mark Sterner will give a lecture, DUI: A Powerful Lesson, on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. Learn how a spring break trip turned into a nightmare for Mark and three of his fraternity brothers. Mark will share his story of what happens when alcohol and driving mix and friends die. Mark Sterner was named Campus Activities Magazine's Speaker of the Year in 2004. Sponsored by Tau Kappa Epsilon, Student Assembly, and Student Activities.

On January 21, members of the Hamilton community gathered in the Chapel for a memorial service to remember the thousands of people from around the world who were killed in last month’s tsunami.

Robert Paquette, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, has been invited to serve as the Mary Young Alumni Lecturer this spring at the University of Rochester. The Mary Young lectureship was created by the university's history department three years ago as a way to honor simultaneously Professor Emerita Young and its distinguished doctoral alumni. Paquette will present a  paper to graduate students and the university community and then will be the guest at an informal "brown bag" seminar the following day. His teaching and research interests include the old South, colonial Cuba, slave societies, the Caribbean, conservative political thought and colonial Latin America.

Work by Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Cathy Silber appears in the January issue of Harper's Magazine. It's an excerpt from Silber's translation of an angry letter written in nushu, a script used only by women in villages in Hunan province. The translation, titled "Whores Whisperer," is called a "fulmination" and appears in the "Readings" section of the magazine, pp. 30-31. 

As part of a special two-speaker examination of abortion issues, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleanor Raoul Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Emory University, will present "Life or Death: Who Decides?" on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4:15 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson auditorium. The event, sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, is free and open to the public.

Barbara Tewksbury, the William R. Kenan Professor of Geology, gave an illustrated lecture on the Indonesian tsunami on Jan. 24 and again on Feb. 1 in the Chemistry Auditorium. The lecture was titled “When the Seas Rise Up: A Geologist’s Perspective on Tsunamis.”  Tewksbury specializes in the study of structural and planetary geology and plate tectonics.  

Heidi Ravven, professor of religious studies, participated with other Ford Foundation grantees in the first meeting of the Progressive Religion and Values Working Group on January 19 at the foundation in New York City.  The group, convened by Constance Buchanan, senior program officer for education, sexuality, and religion at Ford, has been asked to explore ways that progressive ideas about religion and values can be communicated more effectively in the media and the public debate.  The taskforce is chaired by Karen King (Harvard Divinity School).