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Mark Osterman opened the Emerson Gallery's William G. Roehrick '34 Lecture Series with a talk titled "Pencil of Nature, Hand of Man: Photography Before 1870" on October 7. Osterman is a photographic process historian at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, and specializes in making photographic images with the archaic techniques used in the mid-19th century. He talked about the evolution of photographic processes, from pinhole cameras and Wedgewood images to Daguerrotypes and collodion wet prints.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive and lecturer in saxaphone, was the featured guest at the Utica Musicians Union's meeting on Oct 7. Rowe presented a program about the Jazz Archive, consisting of clips from the videotaped interviews in the collection.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao gave a lecture, "Transplantation and Modernity: The Chinese/American Poems of Angel Island," on Oct. 3 at Williams College.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Hans Broedel will discuss Halloween traditions on WCNY TV's "HOUR CNY," on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 12:30 p.m. Broedel, a medieval historian, is author of the forthcoming book The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft (Manchester University Press). "HOUR CNY," WCNY's live, daily TV talk program, airs Monday-Friday from 12:30-1:30 p.m., and features the people, places and happenings of Central New York communities.

Ten Hamilton College seniors were elected this month to  the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society. The students are: James Baker, Elizabeth Casey, Andrew Connor, Mary Dias, Sarah McDermott, Khori Newlander, Elizabeth Rabe, Katherine Rahmlow, Trevor Tompkins and Adina Unguras.

Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, will present "Integrated assessment of science and economics applied to air pollution and the Adirondacks," Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium.  The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center lecture series "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, is the editor of the book New Economy Handbook, published by Elsevier Academic Press. The book is a collection of original essays on the economy after the 1990's information technology boom, with an introduction by Jones. In addition, Jones has contributed a chapter called "Managerial Discretion, Business Strategy and the Quality of Jobs: Evidence from Medium-Sized Manufacturing Establishments in Central New York" to a new book called Low Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace.

On Saturday, Nov. 1, the Hamilton Continentals football team will do battle on the gridiron with the Middlebury Panthers in Middlebury, Vt., to bring home the coveted "Rocking Chair."  All alumni and friends are invited to attend a pre-game brunch and post-game reception sponsored by the College.  Speaking before the game will be President Joan Stewart, football coach Pete Alvanos, Mac Bristol '43, Greg Hoogkamp '82 and Will Anthony '85.  More than 100 alumni and friends have already pledged their support for the team and will cheer the Continentals to victory.  Come out for a great fall day, and meet up with old friends! 

Dan Chambliss, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Sociology, was quoted in a Woman's Day magazine article about the crisis in America's nursing profession (10/7/03). The article discusses the shortage of nurses nationwide, which leads to increased workload, stress and a high burnout rate. Chambliss' research interests include ethical problems in healthcare as they relate to nursing. His 1996 book, Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses and the Social Organization of Ethics, won the Eliot Freidson Prize in 1998 for the best book in the preceding two years in medical sociology from the American Sociological Association.

Construction of Hamilton's new 192,000-square-foot, $56-million science center is on budget and on schedule, said Douglas A. Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology and science curriculum and facilities coordinator. Weldon reported that all the flights of stairs have now been installed, and  that the stairwells resemble mini-Atriums. These are often referred to by the project coordinators as "Atriettes" because of their spacious, wall-less design that relies in part on the open design for lighting. Bill Huggins, assistant director of construction, added, "At this point in the construction, the building is nearly water tight – most of the roof has been completed and we’ve been working hard to get the windows installed. With more than 80 contractors working diligently on a daily basis things are happening fast."