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Some visitors to Burke Library on Feb. 27 were sidetracked by a group of readers in the browsing area who were participating in the second Milton Marathon. Organized by Margaret Thickstun, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English, the event featured a day-long reading of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost.

On an Alternative Spring Break trip last year, Alysha Banerji ’11 was working with first-graders at a school in North Carolina when one of them proclaimed that his cat had just birthed kittens. The boy asked if Banerji wanted one, but when she told him that pets weren’t allowed in college dorms, he exclaimed, “I want to go to college!”

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, co-presented “Efficiency and Job Satisfaction in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Economic Case Study of Mondragon” at the Mid-Year Fellows Workshop. The workshop was held Feb. 24-25 at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.

Andrew Skurka, an adventurer, speaker, guide, and writer, will give two presentations at Hamilton on Monday, Feb. 28. The first, a lightweight backpacking skills clinic, will take place at noon in the Glen House. The second, a lecture on Skurka’s Alaska-Yukon expedition, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ.  Both events are sponsored by the Hamilton Outing Club and are free and open to the public.

Juror Jim Dine has selected prints by Professors of Art Bruce Muirhead and Bill Salzillo for the 2011 North American Print Biennial presented by the Boston Printmakers. Dine chose only 149 prints from more than 2,000 entries.

Nationally ranked No. 13 Hamilton College hosts Wesleyan University in a 2011 New England Small College Athletic Conference men's ice hockey quarterfinal at Russell Sage Rink on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m.

Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, presented A Chemotrophic Ecosystem beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf: Discovery and Demise following Ice Shelf Collapse to a team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) on Thursday, Feb. 24.  In the evening, Domack presented a public lecture titled Earth's Dynamic Climate Part 1:Icehouse to Greenhouse Transitions in Earth History: Lessons from Deep Time to Recent for the public as part of the LPI Lecture Series titled Cosmic Explorations.

On Feb. 24, Paul Wapner, director of the Global Environmental Politics Program and associate professor in the School of International Service at American University, discussed the practicality and future of environmental policies. His lecture discussed a serious question: what if we live in a world unredeemably affected by humanity?

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Plate’s perspectives on this year’s Oscar nominees and the themes conveyed by them appear on several major media sites including CNN.com, Religion Dispatches and beliefnet.com. “It’s kind of an unusual year – almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,” said Plate. “But these films are asking the same questions that religions ask: Where did we come from, how did we get here, where are we going and who are we?”

As part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, author Jenni Schaefer visited Hamilton to present a lecture on recovery from eating disorders. As a survivor of an eating disorder that haunted her childhood and teenage years, Schaefer’s story could easily have been bleak, but the speaker chose instead to focus on her journey to recovery and hope.