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The Green Democracy Roundtable, hosted by the Hamilton Environmental Action Group and the Hamilton College chapter of Democracy Matters on Jan. 31, brought together a distinguished panel of students, staff, alumni and politicians to discuss potential solutions to the problems of climate change. The event, concluding Hamilton's participation in the Focus the Nation global warming teach-in that took place at more than 1,000 schools that day, was notable for the depth of the speakers' knowledge and for their universal commitment to address climate change.

Hamilton College was named in a new report released by the Campus Ecology program of the National Wildlife Federation earlier this month. The report, "Higher Education in a Warming World: The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus," illustrates the ways in which more than 100 colleges and universities are making significant cuts in CO2 emissions while reaping financial, educational and other benefits.

Peter Cameron '82 was a featured reader at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and book fair held Jan. 30-Feb. 2 in New York. He is the author of several short story collections and novels, most recently Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2007).

Several national Youth Polls conducted at Hamilton through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center continue to be cited in recent national news stories on related topics.

Assistant Professor of Physics Natalia Connolly published an article in the February 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. The article, titled "A New Determination of the High Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys," presents a new measurement of how often huge stellar explosions, called Type Ia supernovae, occur in the universe. Type Ia supernovae are special because they allow cosmologists to study the way the universe is expanding.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey recently received a grant award from Microsoft Corporation's research division for the development of a new computer security course titled Secrets, Lies, and Digital Threats. The course will provide background information on computer security issues for future leaders, including those who will shape public technology policy, to understand the nature of security threats and how they can be expected to evolve in the future.

Recording artist and multiple Grammy Award winner Aretha Franklin will be the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series at Hamilton College. She will perform on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The event will be free and no tickets are needed but seats for the general public will be limited to approximately 1,000, on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the concert.  Those guests who will need reserved handicapped seating and/or parking are asked to make arrangements in advance. Please call 315-859-4529.

Students in Frank Sciacca and David Gapp's "Food for Thought" class put aside their cell phones, iPods and even forks, and enjoyed a historically accurate, early 19th-century meal on Jan. 31 in the Great Room at Spencer House.

On the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) published an opinion piece titled "Iraq of '08 eerily like Vietnam of '68" written by Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and University of Albany Professor of English Thomas Bass. As the title suggests, Isserman and Bass compare the official reports on the status of the war in Vietnam in 1968 to the war in Iraq in 2008 and suggest that the situation in Iraq is far less stable than the administration would have the nation believe.

The Emerson Gallery hosted a gallery conversation with artist and Haverford College professor William E. Williams '73 and the curatorial team of Uncovering the Past to Freedom, one of the gallery's three current exhibitions on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The exhibition's curatorial team included Katerina Adair '10, Ilana Carlin '09, Sophia Franck '08, Associate Professor of Art History Deborah Pokinski and Associate Director and Curator Susanna White.