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Hamilton's 10th annual Fall Fest took place on Oct. 30 on the village green in Clinton.  Tara Huggins '14, co-chair of Hamilton's Social Traditions committee with Sarah Kelley '12,  said "Over the course of the day we had a few hundred people come. The weather was amazing and that made it just a great day."

The 10th Annual Hamilton College Fall Fest will take place on Sunday, Oct. 30, from noon to 4 p.m., on the Clinton Village Green. Fall Fest is an initiative that was started in 2002 by the Hamilton Class of 2005 to enhance town/gown relations by uniting the Hamilton and Clinton communities for an afternoon of food, fun and entertainment.

Emily Greenwood, professor of classics at Yale University, will give a talk titled “Facebook, According to Plutarch,” on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium (G027). The event is sponsored by the Classics department and is free and open to the public.  

Glaciologist Richard Alley, a member of the UN climate change committee that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, will present a lecture, “Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise,” on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ian Howat ’99 was among four scientists named by President Obama to receive the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He received the award in a ceremony on Oct. 14 in Washington.

Students in the Semester in Washington Program met with U.S. Representative Richard Hanna of New York’s 24th District on Oct. 12. Rep. Hanna fielded a variety of questions from the group about his experiences as a new member of the House of Representatives and about the issues confronting the 112th Congress.

For the 28th consecutive year, the Ecology course (Bio. 237) traipsed to the top of Whiteface Mountain. This year's class was so large that it was split into two separate trips. As usual, the weather for this trip was unpredictable. The first trip took place on Sept. 25 with Prof. Bill Pfitsch and found warmth, blue skies and grand vistas. The second trip, led by Prof. Ernest Williams on Oct. 2, encountered dense overcast skies, rain and chilly temperatures.

Kevin Smith '81, Duke University scholarly communications officer, will deliver the Couper Phi Beta Kappa Library Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.  The lecture, titled “From Schopenhauer to Schwarzenegger: The Impact of Copyright on Art and Scholarship in the Digital Age,” is free and open to the public.

A 200-year legacy as a small, selective liberal arts college will be celebrated as Hamilton College hosts its Bicentennial Kickoff on Thursday - Sunday, Sept. 22-25. Some 3000 alumni, parents, students and other members of the Hamilton community are expected to take part in events on the Hill over the course of the weekend.  The occasion will be marked with performances, tours, a Bicentennial Assembly, fireworks, NESCAC athletic events and more than 30 Bicentennial Colleges designed to commemorate this historic milestone in Hamilton’s history.

A time capsule buried by Hamilton’s class of 1871 was opened at the Emerson Gallery on Sept. 15. The event was in conjunction with the Gallery’s new exhibit, Time Capsules and Cornerstones: 200 years of Collective Memory at Hamilton.