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At the recent annual meeting of the American Microscopical Society (AMS), Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds was guest of honor at the Society’s luncheon and presented with a plaque to commemorate his service as editor-in-chief of the Society’s quarterly journal Invertebrate Biology. Reynolds served 12 years as an editor, the last six as editor-in-chief.

Hamilton's 2010 Public Speaking Competition will take place on Saturday, March 6, from 1-5 p.m., in the Chapel. Thirteen students will compete for three different prizes in this annual event: The McKinney Prize, The Clark Prize, and The Warren Wright Prize.

Associate Professor of Dance Bruce Walczyk presented “African Martial Art Concepts & Capoeira” and “Kali/Silat: Filipino & Malaysian Martial Culture” at the American College Dance Festival Conference held Feb. 19 - 22 at Mercyhurst College .

A book with a chapter coauthored by Hamilton faculty Ernest Williams, Patrick Reynolds and Onno Oerlemans has been published by the University of Iowa Press. The chapter, “Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Adirondacks,” appears in Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest, (edited by Pavel Cenkl, 2010).

Hamilton’s Mock Trial team won its supplementary regional tournament on February 27 at Colgate University and by doing so qualified for the Opening Round Championship Series competition in White Plains, N.Y. This supplementary regional was a continuation of the regional competition at Syracuse University on February 13-14. Hamilton won both of its trials at the supplementary regional—first defeating the University of Buffalo and then Colgate University.

The results are in and the sculptors from the Science Center are the winners of the weekend’s snowperson building contest. The Science Center builders earned a pizza party with their assortment of impressive snow sculptures, including a sea turtle, a mastodon, a brain, a volcano, and a lab technician.

The United States has occupied Afghanistan since October of 2001, when the U.S. and Great Britain launched an offensive against the Taliban in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. In the eight years that the conflict has endured, the U. S. has made relatively little progress in establishing social or political order. In the March 1 panel discussion, “The Way Forward in Afghanistan,” experts debated the current situation in Afghanistan and the ways in which the United States military could improve its handling of the conflict.

On February 11, Hamilton alumnus George Mack ’92, a managing director at Barclay’s Capital graciously made himself available for students in the New York City Program. The class was curious as to the origins of the great recession.

The Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Auction will take place on Thursday, March 4, in the Annex/Tolles Pavilion. This annual fundraiser will help support the 100 Hamilton students participating in nine ASB trips this year. The silent auction will go from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and the live auction will begin at 5 p.m. Free Tex Mex will be served at around 4 p.m. Come bid on lobsters, reserved Commencement seats, a one week vacation, paintings, gift certificates to area restaurants, shops and spas, among many other great items.

Amos Kiewe, professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, presented his lecture “Crisis: A Rhetorical Entity,” on March 2 in the Fillius Events Barn. It was part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series, "Crisis: Danger and Opportunity."