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Associate Professor of Russian John Bartle was recently honored by The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) for Distinguished Service to AATSEEL 2011. Bartle has served as associate editor for book reviews for the Slavic and East European Journal since its fall 2001 issue.

Hamilton College will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with a number of campus and community events in January.

The Hamilton College Arboretum Association will present a free workshop on "The Return of the American Elm" on Saturday, Jan. 15, at 10 a.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center. Pre-registration is requested by calling 315-859-4657.

Heidi M. Ravven, professor of religious studies, gave a paper, "What Maimonides and Spinoza Can Teach us About Moral Psychology and Agency," at the annual joint meeting of the Society for Jewish Ethics, Society for Christian Ethics, and Society for the Study of Islamic Ethics in New Orleans, Jan. 6-9.

Co-ed a cappella group Duelly Noted has embarked on its first winter tour. The tour began on January 6 with a joint concert with the Buffers at Union College and then heads to Northeast Pennsylvania on the 7th to sing for Stroudsburg High School, Nate Taylor's ’11 alma mater, and then to Blair Academy, Mike Breslin's ’13 alma mater. The 17-member group is also planning to sing in New York City before returning to Hamilton on Jan. 10 for the beginning of choir musical rehearsals.

Patrick Reynolds, professor of biology and interim dean of faculty, has been elected president of the American Microscopical Society. Until last spring Reynolds served for 12 years as an editor of the Society’s quarterly journal Invertebrate Biology, the last six as editor-in-chief. In his new post, Reynolds will serve two years as president-elect, then two as president, and one as past president.

People and events at Hamilton drew much interest from local media during 2010. Students and faculty were the subjects of several feature articles in local newspapers, and a number of public events on campus brought positive media attention to the College. Local stories about Hamilton in 2010, included:

Ken Bart, Brian Collett and Phil Pearle (together with three coauthors from the University of Montana) published a paper in the American Journal of Physics in December (Vol. 78, pp. 1278-1289) titled "What Brown saw and you can too." In addition, they have launched a more detailed website. Bart is director of the Microscopy and Imaging Facility and Collett and Pearle are professors of physics.

Hamilton seniors Drew Christ and Theresa Allinger attended the Fall 2010 American Geophysical Union Meeting in December in San Francisco and presented posters highlighting their research.

Heidi M. Ravven, professor of religious studies, gave an invited paper at the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting in Boston on Dec. 21. The paper, "Reviving a Jewish Medieval and Spinozist Model of Moral Agency," was delivered in the session "Re-opening The Conversation Between Jewish Philosophy and Contemporary Science," of the Modern Jewish Thought and Theology section of the AJS.