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Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran was recently appointed to the TeachPhilosophy101.org advisory board.

Assistant Professor of Art Rob Knight took his Advanced Photography students to an education conference in New York City on Oct. 28 and 29. “Depth of our Field: Collaborations and Partnerships in Arts Education” was sponsored by the Penumbra Foundation.

There’s a great big world of off-campus studies, and it’s not just for art history or French majors. To help prove the point, biology major Angel Pichardo ’17 gave a talk at a recent Hamilton colloquium about his semester in DIS Copenhagen. His program focused on biomedicine and drug development. The experience, says Pichardo, was the best four months of his life.

Frank Bergmann, lecturer in German and Russian, published “The Creation of the World and Other Business: Archetype and the Rhythm of Decorum” in the autumn 2016 issue of The Arthur Miller Journal.

Children’s book author and illustrator Natalie Babbitt died yesterday at her home in Connecticut.

David H. Bailey, a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Davis, will present the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m., in the Chapel.

President David Wippman and Alex the Mascot welcomed local trick-or-treaters to Buttrick Hall on Halloween as they participated in Hamilton’s annual Trust Treat celebration.

While many students spent the Halloween weekend dressing up in costumes, Hamilton’s Mock Trial team spent the weekend in suits at the University of Rochester’s 9th annual “Yellowjacket Invitational.” Hamilton’s team has won this tournament for the past three years, and continued the streak this weekend. Hamilton’s two teams swept away the competition yet again, placing first and second at the tournament.

Author Stuart Ewen, a historian and lecturer on media and consumer culture, will present a lecture titled “The ‘I’ and the Eye: A Brief History of Optics and Individualism” on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Nhora Lucía Serrano curated a book exhibition on “The Columbian Exchange” that displays rare materials from Burke Library’s Special Collections and four new recent acquisitions printed in Mexico.