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Members of Hamilton's ecology class, Biology 237, made the annual trek to Whiteface Mountain to study responses of the vegetation to environmental conditions on Sept. 26. The high Adirondacks were at peak color, so the trip was a great success aesthetically as well as scientifically.

Robert Simon, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy, was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times article about truthfulness in golf. In “Honesty Suits Golf to a Tee” (9/26/10), the writer reports that 14-year-old Zach Nash is returning the first-place medal he won at a tournament in August after he realized he inadvertently played the match with an illegal number of clubs in his bag.

Students from College 235 Food Seminar, along with members of Slow Food Mohawk Valley, met at the 1812 Garden to harvest two rare heirloom potato varieties-- “Cups” and “Lumpers” (the potato of the Irish famine) on Sept. 25. The event was hosted by Professors David Gapp and Franklin Sciacca, project managers of The 1812 Garden. Sciacca is also co-leader of Slow Food Mohawk Valley Chapter.

Associate Professor of English Tina May Hall's collection of short stories, The Physics of Imaginary Objects, has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The collection is the winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation's most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. It was selected from a field of nearly 350 entries by esteemed author and film critic Renata Adler.

Hamilton alumnus Matthew Kahn ’88 will address the economics of and future adaptation to climate change in a lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel. The lecture, “Climatopolis: How Our Cities will Thrive in the Hotter Future,” is sponsored by Hamilton’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. It is free and open to the public.

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Shurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University and director of the Center for Applied Mathematics, will give the James S. Plant Distinguished Scientist Lecture at Hamilton College on Monday, Sept. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His lecture is titled “The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order” and is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Erich Fox Tree has published a chapter titled “Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy” in the book Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy: Insights for a Global Age.

Hamilton students in the Program in New York City recently visited the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This fall's program on The Economics of Large Metropolitan Labor Markets is directed by Derek C. Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics.

Debra Richardson, program director of the Utica Culinary Institute, will give the keynote speech at Hamilton's Diversity and Social Justice Project (DSJP) student-faculty conference that will take place on Sept. 23-24. She will give a talk titled, “Food Justice: Food as the Vehicle for Connecting Communities” on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 4:10 p.m., in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The conference is free and open to the public.

This fall, the Hamilton College Humanities Forum continues a series of lectures, workshops and presentations designed to explore the problem of secular humanism in the modern academy. “The Secular Gaze: Humanistic Representations of the World” aims to open a discourse on the philosophical foundations of modern secularism and their effects on contemporary society. All events are free and open to the public.