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Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall participated in the &Now Conference of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts on Oct. 14-17 in Buffalo. She presented a video titled "Instructions for Contacting the Dead."

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, gave a keynote speech at the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Second Faculty Conference on Chinese Studies on Oct. 16 at Spelman College. Her talk was titled " A New Chinese Studies Model in a Changing World: The Hamilton and ACC Experience."

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, received national recognition at the 2009 Nebraska Digital Workshop on Oct. 3 for his work on Soweto ’76: A Living Digital Archive, from The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Hamilton student Yinghan Ding ’12 served as a youth representative at the second Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, a conference hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that brought together U.S. and international governors, U.N. officials, senior officials in the Obama Administration and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Wlajimir “Jimmy” Alexis ’13 is the recipient of a prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship (GMS), which provides full financial support for the cost of undergraduate education for outstanding minority students with significant financial need. One thousand recipients were chosen from 40,000 applications in this year’s competition, the 10th.

The Contemporary Voices and Visions Series at Hamilton will present Pamela Z in Metal/Vox/Water, a solo multi-media performance for voice, electronics and video on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

On the evening of October 14, students in the Program in Washington were welcomed into the office of Williams and Jensen, a leading government affairs law firm, for a presentation on politics and lobbying by principals George Baker ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89.

The eighth annual Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 25, on the Clinton Village Green from noon to 4 p.m. The event is organized annually by the Social Traditions Committee of the Hamilton College Student Assembly and is free and open to the public.

Mount Holyoke College Professor of Religion Heath Atchley will discuss “Disturbing the Secular,” on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, the second in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public.

Hamilton is hosting a multicultural affairs conference on Thursday, Oct. 22, and Friday, Oct. 23. Attendees include administrators from the 30 member colleges and universities of the Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS).