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Jose Casanova, professor of sociology at Georgetown University, will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, March 4, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. His talk is titled “Exploring the Post-Secular: Three Meanings of ‘the Secular’ and Their Possible Transcendence.” The event is free and open to the public.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran was an editor on the latest revision of William Hughes’s Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills. The sixth edition of the book was published in January by Broadview Press.

With the help of 18 metal spikes sticking out of their hands and feet, Hamilton students scaled 30-foot frozen waterfalls last weekend.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented a colloquium at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Center for Communication Research, in Princeton, N.J., in February.

Amos Kiewe, professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, will present a lecture titled "Crisis: A Rhetorical Entity," on Tuesday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. His talk is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center series “Crisis: Danger and Opportunity.” All lectures are free and open to the public.

Lawrence T. Gilroy III '81, president of Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy Insurance, was one of 23  graduates of independent colleges and universities throughout New York honored at the 2010 Independent Sector Alumni Hall of Distinction Awards Ceremony on March 1. The ceremony took place at the Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} New York State Capitol in Albany. The honorees were chosen by the board of trustees of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) for their contributions to the economy of New York.  

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has had three new poems published in The Cincinnati Review and The Southern Review. Her poems are titled "Whiskey Pastoral," "Snow Angel," and "Murder Ballad."

Barbara Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, is part of a team that has won a national award for a web site that they have developed over the past eight years to improve undergraduate geoscience education. The Web site On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty, has been awarded the 2009 Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science magazine.

As an openly gay Asian American, Kenji Yoshino’s entire life has been a struggle with the concept of assimilation. Yoshino resists the traditional American ideal of the great “melting pot,” because it demands assimilation and detracts from authenticity by encouraging people to conform to a certain American standard. Yoshino, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU School of Law, spoke Thursday evening in the Kennedy Auditorium about prejudices inherent in American culture and Civil Rights legislation, and about his own journey of personal acceptance as an academic scholar.

The Corporation for National and Community Service named Hamilton as one of the colleges included on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities. The announcement was made on Feb. 25.