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Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren has received a grant from the Noyce Foundation administered by the National Center for Science & Civic Engagement.  The objective of this three-year project is to develop research opportunities for undergraduate science students that couple analytical toxicology with public policy and civic engagement.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi M. Ravven recently gave three talks and book-signings for her book The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will (The New Press, 2013).

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics,  was interviewed for the second time this week on American Public Media’s  Marketplace program. In a segment broadcast on Friday, Sept. 20, titled “Why the Federal Reserve's decisions matter to you,”   Owen discussed how decisions made by the Federal Reserve affect our financial lives in many ways.

Bon Appétit Management Company, Hamilton’s food service provider, will host the 9th annual Eat Local Challenge on Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in McEwen Courtyard. The chefs at Hamilton will join more than 400 other Bon Appétit restaurants and cafés in preparing a special meal made entirely with ingredients sourced from within 150 miles of their kitchens.

Students in the Hamilton Program in New York visited the Tenement Museum on Sept. 18. The museum, located in a restored tenement on the Lower East Side, gave insight into the lives of working immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries. The students toured various rooms in the tenement that each depicted a certain time period in the history of the building.

Mary O'Neill, former director of the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center at Hamilton College, co-hosted a national workshop in July in Hartford, Conn.

Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, participated in a panel to launch a book that she co-edited, Roman Literature, Gender and Reception: Domina Illustris (Routledge 2013).  The panel was held at the University of Maryland. 

The Hamilton community welcomed Verlyn Klinkenborg to the Hill on Sept. 19 as part of the Fall 2013 Reading Series. As an esteemed author, Klinkenborg has published hundreds of pieces of non-fiction and has served as a member of The New York Times editorial board since 1997. He is known for his work concerning rural life, which is largely impacted by his upbringing on his family’s Iowa farm.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson spoke about the “Confucius cuisine” dining trend in China in an Agence France-Presse (AFP) article titled “Confucius makes comeback at Chinese tables.” The Sept. 11 article addressed how the new fine-dining trend “reflects how the ruling Communist party -- which long saw the sage as a reactionary force -- has drafted him into its modern campaign to boost what President Xi Jinping has called China's ‘cultural soft power.’”

Michael Bérubé, the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, will deliver a lecture on Monday, Sept. 23, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  His lecture, titled “The Value -- and the Values -- of the Humanities,” is part of Hamilton’s Highlighting the Humanities series and is free and open to the public.