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BioTour, an educational non-profit working toward building a national movement in sustainability, will visit the Hamilton campus on Tuesday, Feb. 24. BioTour is comprised of 13 young people who travel the country on two school buses that they've converted to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO) and solar paneled electrical power. Meet them and tour their bus in front of the Science Center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and again in front of KJ (in the driveway circle) from 2 - 4 p.m. They will be making a special presentation in the KJ Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

Hamilton College will host a reading by 2009 Writer-in-Residence Dave King on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. Free and open to the public, it is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty and hosted by the English Department. King will read from his debut novel, The Ha-Ha, which was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor and was included on The Washington Post list of the season's best novels.

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.