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Dan Nye, a 1988 graduate of Hamilton College, spoke to a packed auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 7. Nye is the CEO of LinkedIn, the online professional networking site with more than 18 million members in 150 industries from around the world. His presentation, titled "Social Networking: The Next Generation" provided valuable information on the past, current and future state of social networking. The web, in existence for only 13 years, continues to expand in areas of content, audience, distribution and value.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh exhibited artwork in the Made Home exhibition at Current Gallery in Baltimore. The exhibition showcases art works which extracts intimacy and humor from the surroundings we call home. Works featured included the large-scale photographic series of "To Mark a Significant Space." The show closes later this week.

Paul Lieberstein, co-executive producer, writer and actor in NBC's sitcom "The Office" and a 1989 graduate of Hamilton College, will speak at Hamilton as part of the college's FebFest on Wednesday, Feb. 13. Lieberstein's talk, titled "From Clinton, N.Y. to The Office," will take place at 8 p.m. in the Tolles Pavilion. The lecture is $5 for those with a College ID from any college (students, faculty staff) and $10 for the general public. This lecture has been postponed until a later date. Lieberstein is stranded in Chicago due to bad weather.

David O. Stovall, assistant professor of policy studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will present a lecture titled "Critical Race Theory: Race and Racism in Education" on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium G027. The lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Student's Office and is free and open to the public. 

Richard Werner, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, published "Pragmatism for Pacifists" in the December 2007 issue of the philosophy journal Contemporary Pragmatism.

The Hamilton College Choir will present West Side Story on Friday - Sunday, Feb. 8-10, in Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m. and the Sunday performance is at 2 p.m. 

Hamilton College student Nonny Chizea '08 has had several articles featured in the Utica Observer-Dispatch during her internship with the newspaper. In her most recent piece, Chizea wrote about a Utica-area veteran who recently received six medals for his service in the Navy during World War II, no less than 60 years after leaving the military. She has also written an article acknowledging a local man's planning of a Pennsylvania memorial for United 93 crash victims. Chizea's writing is also featured on the Observer-Dispatch Web site's homepage, www.uticaod.com.

Dan Nye, CEO of the social and professional Internet networking site LinkedIn, will present "Social Networking: The Next Generation" at Hamilton. Nye, a 1988 graduate of Hamilton College, will speak on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. * Please note this is a change of location.

Dr. Thomas W. Kensler '70, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke about the spreading cancer epidemic and possible solutions to this growing global problem on Feb. 4. It was the first lecture of the semester in a series on global health issues sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project. Kensler's talk focused on efforts to identify risk factors and prevent exposure to carcinogens. His current work focuses on the growing cancer rates in China.

Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major presented a mathematics colloquium, "The Attractiveness of Loops and Ribbons," at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Feb. 4. After reviewing the framework of quantum geometry he mentioned research work with Tomasz Konopka '02 and Rob Silversmith (Clinton H.S.). Rob's work helped show that the framed loop ("ribbons") algebra of quantum gravity with a cosmological constant is not represented in the Temperley-Lieb algebra i.e. ribbons are not so attractive.