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About 60 Hamilton students and staff members participated in the annual America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk on Saturday, March 7, at Utica College. These volunteers joined a group of some 8,500 people in walking and running between three and five miles. The annual event raises money and awareness for the American Heart Association and its fight against heart disease and stroke. Hamilton has fielded a team for many years. Hamilton team captains were Colleen Pellman, John O'Neal and Ernest Williams.

Anna Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, presented at the 11th annual Women's History Conference "Gender and Power in the Muslim World" at Sarah Lawrence College on March 6-7.

Senior classics major Casey Green's senior seminar paper has been selected for the Eta Sigma Phi panel at the 2010 APA meeting in California. Eta Sigma Phi is the national classics honor society and the APA is the American Philological Association, the national professional organization for classicists. In addition, senior Madeline Ware's paper received honorable mention for the Eta Sigma Phi convention later this month in Memphis. Hamilton was the only school to have two papers recognized.

The Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Auction on March 5 drew Hamilton students and community members to the annual event designed to raise money to help fund the nine volunteer trips that begin next Friday. This year 100 Hamilton students will participate in ASB, the largest number of volunteers ever. 

The Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Auction is taking place today, Thursday, March 5, in the Annex/Tolles Pavilion. This annual fundraiser will help support the 100 Hamilton students participating in ASB this year, the largest number of volunteers ever. Silent auction bidding is all day and the live auction begins at 5 p.m. Live auction items include a behind the scenes Saranac Brewery Tour, a kayak trip with Andrew Jillings, round trip airfare, and more. Eric Kuhn '09 is auction host.

An exhibition of 19th century wood engravings from the collection of Jay G. Williams recently opened at the Barrett Art Gallery of Utica College.  The collection includes works from the 1850s, when wood engraving became popular as a form of illustration, until such illustrations were largely replaced by photographs in the late 1880s. The exhibition will be open until April 2.

Artwork by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was featured in PDN (Photo District News) Magazine, PDN's 30 2009: Gallery (March 2009). Each year the magazine selects 30 "new and emerging photographers to watch." Almanas' work was selected and highlighted within the piece.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting the work "Directed Perspectives" at the Estel Gallery in Nashville, Tenn., in the show titled "Rock Paper Scissors." This group exhibition opened on Feb. 6 and runs until March 14.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published the third edition of his social science research methods textbook, Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation. The book, co-authored with Russell K. Schutt of the University of Massachusetts, is used in courses at more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States and United Kingdom, including the University of California, Berkeley, Georgetown University, and Amherst College.

Acting President and Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo published an essay in the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin (fall 2008, vol. 40, no. 1). In "Counting to One is Not Counting," Urgo questions why the Spellings commission did not consider the humanities in its report. "It is not simply that the Spelling commission report fails to mention the humanities as a factor in higher education; the report itself is devoid of a humanities perspective on what it means to be an educated human being."