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Hamilton will host the first Mobile Learning Summit on Friday, March 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Building.  Presented in partnership with the New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education (NYSCATE), the summit will include discussions, presentations and workshop sessions spanning the mobile technologies within the K-20 educational continuum.

Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music Samuel Pellman presented ngc 6357, a composition with video by Miranda Raimondi '08, at the Understanding Visual Music 2011 conference at Concordia University, Montreal, in August.  

The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing presented three works by Samuel Pellman,  the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, on Oct. 27 as part of the Musicacoustica 2010 Festival. The concert included M45, NGC 1999, and NGC 6357 -- three works from the Selected Nebulae series of works composed for virtual instruments with video by Miranda Raimondi '08.

Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music Samuel Pellman presented ngc 6357, a recent composition with video by Miranda Raimondi '08, in September, to a packed house at the Musikbar Rhiz in Vienna. The event was part of the Kyma International Sound Symposium, which included computer musicians from academic posts and the recording industry in Europe and North America.

NGC 1999: Spooky Action at a Distance, a work created by Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music Samuel Pellman and Miranda Raimondi '08 was presented at the SCOPE international art festival in Basel from June 15-19 as part of an installation titled "The Light at the End of the Tunnel." The show was conceived as a celebration of the Large Hadron Collider that recently became operational at CERN Labs in Geneva.

Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, presented a work  at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York as part of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in late March. The piece, m45, includes video by Miranda Raimondi '08 and is part of the Selected Nebulae suite of works being shown in the Emerson Gallery until April 18. The program in New York also included a piece, Anagoge, by one of Pellman's former students, Andrew Babcock '99. Babcock is currently completing graduate studies at SUNY Buffalo.

Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, presented his composition NGC 2080, Variation 2 at the Emerson Gallery on Feb. 18 as part of the Gallery’s “Look Up” exhibition. Pellman’s piece, which was accompanied by a video created by his collaborator Miranda Raimondi '08, combines unique and innovative sounds with beautiful and meaningful images.

Hamilton's Emerson Gallery will present an artists’ talk with Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, and alumna Miranda Raimondi ’08, on Thursday, Feb. 18, at noon in the gallery. Pellman and Raimondi will discuss their work, "Music From Space: Samuel Pellman and Miranda Raimondi’s Selected Nebulae."

LOOK UP, four concurrent exhibitions featuring works by Hamilton College alumni, faculty and students will open in the Emerson Gallery at Hamilton on Monday, Jan. 18.

Acting Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead was appointed to the William R. Kenan Chair, and Professor of Music Sam Pellman was appointed to the Leonard C. Ferguson Chair. Both are effective July 1.