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"Bahamas Cruise $229~ , Mexico $199~ , Vegas $22~" the e-mail alert reads, urging us to buy now, buy on-line and save, save, save. But is surfing the Internet really the best way to go?

Hamilton College had a team participate in this year's America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk on Saturday, February 28. Co-organizers Linda Michels and Kelly Walton reported on the event.

Professor of Biology Michael McCormick recently co-authored a chapter included in Treatise on Geochemistry Volume 9: Environmental Geochemistry. The chapter is titled “Biogeochemistry of Halogenated Hydrocarbons." McCormick has also recently published an article in volume 38 of the journal Environmental Science and Technology titled “Carbon Tetrachloride Transformation on the Surface of Nanoscale Biogenic Magnetite Particles.”

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz gave a talk titled "Topologies on the plane supporting continuous open projections" at the joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in Phoenix in January.

The Department of Classics presents the Winslow Lecture with Paul Allen Miller, who will discuss "Satire is Wholly Roman," on Thursday, March 4 at 4:10 p.m. in theScience Auditorium. Miller is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of South Carolina.

Internationally renowned philosopher Richard Rorty spoke as part of the Truax Lecture Series in Philosophy on March 1. His lecture, "Moral Absolutism and Torture," explained two opposing philosophical positions, moral absolutists and consequentialists, and their views on the subject of torture.

Sandra Harding, professor of education and women’s studies at UCLA, lectures about “Science and Technology Studies in a Postcolonial World: Recent Issues,” on Tuesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Her lecture is part of the Kirkland Project series, “Technology, Science, and Democracy:  What’s at Stake?”  Harding is a prominent philosopher of science and is the author and editor of more than 10 books.  Her visit is co-sponsored by the departments of women’s studies and philosophy and the Faculty for Women’s Concerns.  This lecture is free and open to the public.  For more information contact the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.   

Jennifer Sturm, system administrator and research support specialist in chemistry, and Dana Luciano, assistant professor of English, were featured in the Observer-Dispatch article "Clinton couple's wedding 'romantic, historic'."  The couple traveled to San Francisco and joined more than 3,400 other gay couples who have received marriage licenses issued by the city and county clerk's office. This article also appeared on Kiplinger.com.

Walk into men's hockey coach Phil Grady's office and you are overwhelmed. Not by the rows of trophies or the plaques that line a column in the middle of the floor, but by the number of photographs of players who passed through the Hamilton hockey program during Grady's tenure.