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“Speech” was the word at the Oral Communication Center’s second “Hamilton Speaks: Improve Your Public Speaking in 6 Minutes or Less,” a lunch-hour event on Oct. 28 in the Tolles Pavilion.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave an invited talk on her current research topics to the math students and faculty at Colgate University. Her talk "Network Symmetries" was designed to define a few of the basic ideas in network symmetries and to build intuition by examining how this ideas play out for a number of especially elegant network families.

An article co-authored by Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was recently published online in the Review of Social Economy. The article presented the results of the authors’ recent study of cooperative banks.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran was the guest editor of the fall issue of the APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy. The issue is a special edition on teaching philosophy in non-traditional settings and includes her article on her work in a medium security men’s prison.

The Hamilton College football team rallied three times, taking the lead for good in the fourth quarter to beat host Williams 20-17 Saturday in Williamstown, Mass.  

Filmmaker Pawel Wojtasik returns to the F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series on Sunday, Nov. 1, to present Single Stream (2013) and other films. F.I.L.M. screenings are scheduled on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium and are free and open to the public.

In “The News and Information Future: It’s Not All Pandas and Puppies!” one family showed just how much the news media has changed not only between two generations but in the past decade. The Oct. 29 lecture was the first Spectator’s three-part journalism series, “SpecSpeak.”

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented “Is U.S. Power Declining?” at Russia’s Higher School of Economics and then traveled to Sochi where he gave an invited lecture at a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar presented a paper titled “Islamic State and Buddhist Monasteries in the Thirteenth Century Magadha” at a symposium on Buddhist and Muslim Encounters in Pre-modern South Asia, which was organized by the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Associate Professor of Biology Mike McCormick delivered a seminar talk about his work in Antarctica on Oct. 23 at Castleton University. He spoke at the invitation of one of his first Hamilton thesis advisees, Andy Vermilyea ’04, who is now an assistant professor of environmental science at Castleton.