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Art students, led by Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Associate Professor of Art, traveled to New York City on Feb. 19-21 to tour the studios of respected contemporary artists Polly Apfelbaum, Kurt Kauper, Julie Heffernan, Justine Kurland and Carolee Schneeman. View a slideshow of the tour here. (Photos by Greg Huffaker '09)

Hamilton's 2009 Public Speaking Competition will take place on Saturday, Feb. 28, from 1-5 p.m. in the Chapel. In this annual event students will compete for three different prizes: The McKinney Prize, The Clark Prize, and The Warren Wright Prize. 

Tim Elgren, professor of chemistry, presented an invited plenary lecture at the 4th Annual Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education, held at Missouri Western State University on Feb. 21. The title of his plenary was "Integrating Applied Learning: Forging Direct Links to the Curriculum." He also led a break-out session titled "Research as Teaching: The Teaching of Research."

On February 18, students in the Program in Washington, D.C., visited the Pentagon to meet with Fred Shear '03, a writer on the staff of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Students toured the massive facility, whose 6.5 million square feet and 17 miles of corridors are home to 23,000 military and civilian employees who plan and execute the nation's defense. Students also visited the Pentagon's 9/11 Memorial.

Forty-two students from Boston's Citizen Schools are visiting Hamilton this week as members of 8th Grade Academy. Citizen Schools is a growing national network of after-school education programs for middle school students. This is the fourth year the Boston-based middle schoolers are visiting Hamilton to get a taste of college life.

Materials Technician in Art J. Anthony DiMezza will be exhibiting an installation at the Tiffany Smith Gallery in Johnstown, N.Y. The installation, "May serendipity be a guiding star," is considered by Dimezza to be a physical manifestation of Murphy's Law. The exhibition will run from Feb. 20 - March 13, with an opening reception on Feb. 20 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, contributed an essay, "Place of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South Africa: Black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships," in William Logan & Keir Reeves (eds.), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' (London: Routledge, 2009).

Students in the Program in Washington, D.C., visited Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 11. After observing the solemn ceremony of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown, students visited other significant sites, including the home of Robert E. Lee, the USS Maine memorial, and the gravesites of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.

The Recycling Task Force replaced the waste baskets in Spencer House on Feb. 13, making it the first Hamilton building that "Canned the Can."  Can the Can is a waste reduction program where office waste is targeted for recycling by reducing the waste basket or eliminating it from the office work station. Ninety-five percent of office waste is white paper, which should be recycled, and often a large waste basket is unnecessary.

Scholarly work in instructional technology designed by Barb Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, and Heather Macdonald of the College of William and Mary, has been peer-reviewed and published in Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).