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The lecture about Life on Mars by Dr. Herbert Frey, chief of the Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5, at 4:30 p.m., has been cancelled. Organizers hope to reschedule Frey's lecture.

The uneven cadence of fingers on a keyboard is almost background music in residence halls and academic buildings on campus. It could have been yesterday, when Lucas Phillips ’16, editor-in-chief of the campus’ newspaper, The Spectator, checked his email for contributions by his staff; or it may have been more than five decades before, when Henry Allen ’63 sat in his Kirkland Dormitory bedroom completing homework on his typewriter.

Contemporary artist Renée Stout and textile artist Karen Hampton will present a lecture focusing on their creative process and artwork currently on display at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 4:15 p.m., in the Wellin Museum overlook on Hamilton’s campus. The lecture, part of the Wellin’s Artists in Conversation series, is free and open to the public.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Milt and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive, presented “The Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College: Preserving Words and Images” on Oct. 16 at the fall meeting of the New York State/Ontario Chapter of the Music Library Association (NYS/O MLA).

The Hamilton Program in New York City cohort attended the evening performance of the New York Philharmonic at the newly renamed David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on Sept. 30. The Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Alan Gilbert, who began his tenure as the NYP music director in 2009 and is the first native New Yorker to hold the post.

Hamilton’s Asian Cultural Society (ACS) hosted Diwali with a Bollywood performance by WesMalai from Wesleyan University and DIY Rangoli on Oct. 31.

“Speech” was the word at the Oral Communication Center’s second “Hamilton Speaks: Improve Your Public Speaking in 6 Minutes or Less,” a lunch-hour event on Oct. 28 in the Tolles Pavilion.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited talk on her current research topics to the math students and faculty at Colgate University. Her talk "Network Symmetries" was designed to define a few of the basic ideas in network symmetries and to build intuition by examining how this ideas play out for a number of especially elegant network families.

An article co-authored by Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was recently published online in the Review of Social Economy. The article presented the results of the authors’ recent study of cooperative banks.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran was the guest editor of the fall issue of the APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy. The issue is a special edition on teaching philosophy in non-traditional settings and includes her article on her work in a medium security men’s prison.