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Local families can tour Hogwarts, cast spells and meet favorite Harry Potter characters at the 15th annual Hogwarts at Hamilton, taking place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, at Benedict Hall.

“We aren’t all producers, but we’re all eaters,” Danielle Nierenberg pointed out last night. Nierenberg is the president and founder of Food Tank, a nonprofit organization begun in 2013 that is “dedicated to building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters.” The event was part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series, and was additionally supported by the Arthur Coleman Tuggle Fund.

Fall Break gave the leaders and members of the Hamilton Outing Club a spectacular opportunity to get out and enjoy many different beautiful wilderness areas and outdoor activities. The four-day vacation (Oct. 14-18) saw trips go as far as Virginia’s Shenandoah Mountains and Maine’s Casco Bay, taking advantage of all that the East Coast has to offer in the way of outdoors activities.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently discussed “What Liberal Arts Colleges Do” at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. He also was awarded the prize for Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning by the American Sociological Association.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series with the Hugo Wolf Quartet and mezzo-soprano Olivia Vote on Friday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

“Does anybody have a $5 bill?” former White House press secretary Mike McCurry P’13 asked Hamilton Program in Washington, D.C., students as they ate lunch in the conference room of Public Strategies Washington (PSW) where he is a partner. He wanted to point out that the picture of Lincoln on the $5 bill was taken in that room which was once the studio of Civil War photographer Mathew Brady.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz ’82 presented “Archimedes meets geometric series” earlier this month in the mathematics colloquium series at the College of Wooster.

It was a twist for John Rufo ’16 to find himself giving an interview rather than conducting one. The Senior Fellow is spending the year interviewing contemporary political poets through the lenses of race, gender, sexuality and disability. With a focus on younger poets, he hopes to open up a space for them to talk about their practice. Rufo, a creative writing major, took his project as an opportunity to merge his concentration with race and gender studies, sociology and history.

Professor Naomi Guttman's poem "Chernobyl Wedding," from the recently published novella-in-verse, The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera, was Poetry Daily's pick for Oct. 17.

Dr. Robert Sternberg, professor of human development at Cornell University and the Robert S. Morris Class of 1976 Visiting Fellow, began his lecture on standardized testing by noting, “since this talk is about testing, it only makes sense to start with a test!” Sternberg then administered a five-question test to the audience, consisting of questions like “whose face is on the U.S. $10 bill,” and “what town in New York State is Colgate located in?”