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Randy Ericson, the Couper Librarian, accepted the Outstanding Project for 2007 award from the Communal Societies Association on behalf of Hamilton College at the CSA annual meeting on Sept. 29. Hamilton received the award for the digitization of the Shaker periodical, variously titled The Shaker, Shaker and Shakeress, The Shaker Manifesto and The Manifesto. This publication ran from 1871 until 1899 and shared religious and political opinions between Shaker communities from Maine to Kentucky.

Three members of the geosciences department presented their research at the 119th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA). William R. Kenan Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury, Associate Professor of Geosciences Todd Rayne and Dave Tewksbury, geosciences technician, spoke at the meeting held in Denver from October 27-31. About 6,300 scientists attended the meeting.

For the third consecutive fall, dozens of Hamilton students are organizing, coaching and refereeing a youth soccer league in Utica. Cornhill Youth Soccer (CYS) is a full-scale soccer league supported completely by Hamilton students.

Jay G. Williams '54, Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, will curate an exhibition and give a lecture at the “From Slavery to Freedom: The Formation of African American and American Identity” symposium at Haverford College. The conference will address the history, culture, and military and literary expression of African American feeling and thought in pre and post Civil War America. Williams will also curate an exhibition titled “Emancipation and Denigration: Thomas Nast and his Colleagues Picture Black America.” Two other exhibitions, “Unsung Heroes” and “A Journey Towards Hope” will run simultaneously. The exhibitions open Saturday, Sept. 29 and run through Oct. 28. Williams will also speak at the Haverford symposium on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo contributed a chapter to Willa Cather as Cultural Icon, the 7th volume in the Cather Studies series. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a renowned author known for portraying U.S. lifestyles. Her famous novels include O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. Urgo’s chapter is titled “Cather’s Secular Humanism: Writing Anacoluthon and Shooting Out into the Eternities.” In the book Urgo describes Cather as "a great American liberator, an author who truly understood the potential of American secular and humanistic pluralism to serve art and to advance the human condition by lifitng it above the denominational.

Molly Kane '09 is a member of the Sophomore Seminar class "Global Warming: Is the Day After Tomorrow Sooner Than We Think?" with Professor of Geosciences Gene Domack and Associate Professor of Chemistry Ian Rosenstein. That class, as well as Domack's Antarctica and Global Change class, had the opportunity to participate in a question and answer session with former Vice President Al Gore, who came to Hamilton on April 26 to present his multimedia "An Inconvenient Truth" lecture. Kane here offers her impressions of the classroom session with Mr. Gore.

The final rounds of the annual public speaking competition were held on Saturday, March 3, in the Chapel. Students were selected based on their performance in the February 10 preliminary rounds and competed for three different prizes: The McKinney Prize, The Clark Prize, and The Warren Wright Prize. Michael Blasie ’07 won three of the six awards.

The Art Department will hold a reception for the exhibition titled “Out of the Classroom” on Thursday, Feb. 8 on the second floor of the List Art Building. The exhibition features art work from classes such Ceramics, Critical Theory & Studio Practice, Design, Drawing, Photography, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Video. The reception will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. and refreshments will be served. The exhibition will remain on view until March 9.

Philip G. Terrie, professor of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University, will give a talk on “The Adirondacks and the Invention of American Wilderness” on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Auditorium (G027). Terrie is the author of numerous articles and several books on the Adirondacks, including Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks, Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Wilderness in the Adirondacks, and Wildlife and Wilderness: A History of Adirondack Mammals.

Josh Simpson ’72 was recently featured in an Associated Press article about his personal never-ending mission called the “Infinity Project.” Simpson, who blows glass in his own studio in western Massachusetts, places planet-like glass orbs with the infinity symbol, a sideways number eight, all over the world.