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On two gorgeous late summer nights, Hamilton student theatre group Bare Naked theatre presented Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, unveiling the Kennedy Center Amphitheatre.

“Contents Under Pressure,” a one-person exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Jane Fine, will be on display at Pierogi in Brooklyn from Sept. 11 through Oct. 11. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, Sept. 11, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Now back on campus this fall for his junior year Alexandru Hirsu ’17 spent his summer exploring the impact that cooperation with the European Union has had on corruption in Romania through a Levitt Center Summer Research Fellowship. Hirsu, along with the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny, will present on their findings during this fall’s Family Weekend.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Carter recently won the 2015 Lake George Music Festival international composition competition with “Too Many Arguments in Line 17” for string quartet and was a composer-in-residence during the August festival.

Hamilton College Performing Arts announces an exciting season of music, theater and dance for the 2015-16 season in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. All performances are at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Hamilton students are flocking to Sadove Terrace for the annual Campus Life Open House, taking place on Friday, Sept. 4. Representatives from student clubs and organizations s well as campus offices and student services are on hand to answer questions and recruit members. The Open House runs until 3 p.m.

Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, a book co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Teaching Literature Book Award.

John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts, is a contributing author of "Excavations at Gournia 2010-2012" recently published in Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The article summarizes the first three seasons of work at this important Bronze Age town in Crete.

Khat is a plant that is widely used but also widely debated because of its psychostimulant effects. This summer Leonard Kilekwang ’16 researched the effects of khat (also known as miraa) on mice at the department of Medical Physiology at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. His research will provide important results for people and government organizations trying to determine whether khat is safe.

A Hamilton student, alumnus and professor with a shared interest in the “Ithaca style” of music gathered this summer in North Carolina to enjoy their craft.