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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).

Artwork by Visiting Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was published in Toronto Life magazine, Superbugged: p.58-59, 61, 62: March 2009. Her work accompanied an article about Superbugs by Stephanie Verge. The writer contracted a superbug (MRSA) while she was in the hospital and the piece is about her terrifying experience. The photos were from Almanas' series "Medical Interior" that deals with similar themes of patient perspective and the tempestuous environment of the hospital where life and death, comfort and fear coexist.

In Celebration of Black History Month, Hamilton will host a Black Inventions Exhibit on Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in K.J. Commons. The exhibit was created to develop racial pride, promote racial understanding and remedy public ignorance about black inventors, achievers, pioneers and scientists. it is appearing at various venues throughout North America.

The Chordata: Mammalia got a thumbs up, Mollusca: Cephalopoda received mixed reviews, and Echinodermata: Echinoidea was simply "nasty," according to attendees of the Biology Department's Phylum Feast on Feb. 12. For the layperson, those are chicken wings, fried squid and sea urchin roe, and they were among delicacies served at the feast to celebrate Darwin Day, the 200th birthday of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin.

The Department of Comparative Literature is hosting a "Literature at Lunchtime" discussion of Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red with Ohio State University Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Richard Davis. The event will take place on Friday, Feb. 20, from 1-3 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge of the Bristol Campus Center.

Robert Spiegelman, sociologist, multimedia artist and writer, will give a New York Council on the Humanities lecture titled "Cooling Mother Earth: New York's Footprint in Nature, Then and Now," on Monday, Feb. 16, at noon in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, was interviewed for a Houston Chronicle article about steroids in sports (2/12/09). In the article, "Has ethics struck out," Simon believes sports organizations should have the right to draw lines that allow an athlete's physical and mental attributes to decide outcomes. 

Three's a crowd? Not so, says Hamilton senior Austin Hawkins. On the contrary, three is stronger than two: it is a symbol of unity, energy, overcoming duality, completion, humanity and creation. It is an element of many religions and has a larger cultural meaning. For Hawkins, a bicycle holding three riders is a good balance compared to just one or two, and the flamboyant bike he recently built proves it.

The Biology Department is sponsoring a screening of the PBS video, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, in honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center. It will be followed by discussion with faculty, including Al Kelly, Ashleigh Smythe and Ernest Williams -- specialists in intellectual history, invertebrate biology, and systematic and evolutionary ecology.