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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.

Alumnus James C. Cobey '65, an orthopedic surgeon at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., will discuss “The International Campaign to Ban Landmines,” on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. He is the first speaker in a series of evening lectures for the 2010-11 academic year focused on three thematically based programs: Security, Sustainability, and Inequality and Equity. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Approximately 140 Hamilton College students participated in the annual “Make a Difference Day” on Saturday, Sept. 11. The HAVOC-sponsored event is aimed at connecting the Hamilton community to non-profit agencies in the surrounding area.

Two Hamilton teams will compete in The Adirondack Canoe Classic, also known as “The 90-miler” this weekend, Sept. 10-12. The race is paddled over three days, starting from Old Forge and finishing in Prescott Park in Saranac Lake, and is billed as the biggest race of the year in New York State.

Hamilton College will host “Stone Canoe Readings,” a reading featuring five poets, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The Stone Canoe is an annual journal of writing, art and ideas from upstate New York, edited by Robert Colley '66 and published by Syracuse University. This event is free and open to the public.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent plate took members of his "Religion and Modern Art" seminar to New York City on Sept. 2-4 to tour the Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The visit will serve as the basis for much of the class conversation in upcoming weeks.

Environmental studies major Jennifer Santoro '11 explored another avenue of science when she did organic geochemistry research at Tulane University this summer. She worked under the direction of Dr. Brad Rosenheim at Tulane, with the support of an NSF Office of Polar Programs (LARISSA) grant to Eugene Domack, Hamilton’s J.W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences.

Associate Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh has artwork featured in the traveling exhibition “Hidden Heroes: The Genius of Everyday Things” at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. For this exhibition the museum seeks to illuminate four aspects of design that include innovation, production, evolution and inspiration.