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Nancy S. Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, was the guest of the Classics Department at Skidmore College on Monday Oct. 26. She was their fall speaker and gave an address based on her current research, titled "Tragedy's Women as Subject and Object of the Gaze."

Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett and Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran will present a talk titled "Building Better People?: Genetic Engineering and the Roots of Evil" on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at The Other Side in Utica. This is the third event in the 2009-2010 Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton College and The Other Side.

Hamilton College will expand its partnership with the Posse Foundation when it enrolls 10 students from Miami in the class of 2014 next fall.

Utica native and prominent American writer and educator Mark Danner will present a lecture, “Obama, Torture and Human Rights,” on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel, followed by a book signing. The lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty office and is free and open to the public.

Max Wall ’10 is featured in a New York Times Education Life article titled “Simpler Substances” (11/1/09). Wall founded the Loose Association of Friends for the Better Appreciation of Fermentation, (Lafbaf), this fall at Hamilton. The photos included in the piece were taken by Kristen Morgan-Davie ’12.

One of the world's foremost experts on the legal aspects of witch hunting, Brian Levack, will speak on "Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe" on Monday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium.

Longtime Newsweek reporter and editor Eleanor Clift will present “Politics in the Age of Obama” on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Clift, who is also a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated The McLaughlin Report, will also answer questions from the audience. The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the College Democrats.

The development of data archiving in psychology and the related contributions of Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan were recently described in an article in the Monitor on Psychology (Vol. 40), a publication of the American Psychological Association.

In a Chronicle of Higher Education article about a CUNY graduate seminar in academic ethics, a text written by Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, is referenced as the one that the class was using. Simon’s text is Neutrality and the Academic Ethic, a 1994 volume that is part of a 15-book series on academic published by Rowman & Littlefield.

“Unmasking the real story of the man that revolutionized hockey,” a USA Today article about the development of the hockey mask in the National Hockey League, features Hamilton’s former track coach Gene Long and alumnus and former Hamilton hockey goalie Don Spencer ’59. The story credits Long with the invention of the prototype for the mask and highlights Spencer’s role as the individual who alerted famed NHL goaltender Jacques Plante to its existence 50 years ago.