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Hamilton’s Athletics Department has been working on fostering a relationship with local Special Olympic athletes in conjunction with the NCAA Division III partnership with Special Olympics on a national level.

Two recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize will participate in a panel at Hamilton College as part of the Sacerdote Great Names Series on Wednesday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The event coincides with the 100th anniversary of Hamilton’s own Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1864 graduate and Clinton native Elihu Root, who won the 1912 award.

Members of the Hamilton community again supported the annual America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, held this year on March 2 in Utica. Donations are still being counted but Hamilton participants were among the 7,799 walkers and runners who raised about $1.1 million for the American Heart Association.

Asle Toje, research director for the Norwegian Nobel Institute, will present a lecture titled “The Nobel Peace Prize and the EU,” on Thursday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. His lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton Government department and is free and open to the public.

Earl E. Devaney, inspector general for the Department of the Interior, will deliver a lecture titled “How to Protect $800,000,000,000 in Public Spending: Oversight of the Stimulus Package,” on Thursday, March 7, at 4:30 p.m., in the Dwight Lounge in the Bristol Center at Hamilton. His lecture is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center’s Security program and is free and open to the public.

Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will present a lecture on Wednesday, March 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson.  The lecture is part of the art department’s Visiting Artist Series and is free and open to the public.

Six prizes were awarded across three categories in the annual Public Speaking Competition on Saturday, March 3, in the Chapel. The finalists were chosen after an open preliminary round held in February. Speakers’ presentations were either persuasive or informative in nature, and in one category students were asked to address an assigned topic.

Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, will present the Hansmann Lecture titled “The Political Framework of Gender in the Kamasutra,” on Monday, March 4, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.

Brent Shaw, the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics and chair of the Program in the Ancient World at Princeton University, will present the Winslow Lecture titled “The End of Sacrifice,” on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  His lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton Classics Department and is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College will host several events to recognize National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW) which begins Monday, Feb. 25. All events will take place on campus.