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The Alternative Spring Break (ASB) Auction is taking place today, Thursday, March 5, in the Annex/Tolles Pavilion. This annual fundraiser will help support the 100 Hamilton students participating in ASB this year, the largest number of volunteers ever. Silent auction bidding is all day and the live auction begins at 5 p.m. Live auction items include a behind the scenes Saranac Brewery Tour, a kayak trip with Andrew Jillings, round trip airfare, and more. Eric Kuhn '09 is auction host.

An exhibition of 19th century wood engravings from the collection of Jay G. Williams recently opened at the Barrett Art Gallery of Utica College.  The collection includes works from the 1850s, when wood engraving became popular as a form of illustration, until such illustrations were largely replaced by photographs in the late 1880s. The exhibition will be open until April 2.

Artwork by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was featured in PDN (Photo District News) Magazine, PDN's 30 2009: Gallery (March 2009). Each year the magazine selects 30 "new and emerging photographers to watch." Almanas' work was selected and highlighted within the piece.

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting the work "Directed Perspectives" at the Estel Gallery in Nashville, Tenn., in the show titled "Rock Paper Scissors." This group exhibition opened on Feb. 6 and runs until March 14.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published the third edition of his social science research methods textbook, Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation. The book, co-authored with Russell K. Schutt of the University of Massachusetts, is used in courses at more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States and United Kingdom, including the University of California, Berkeley, Georgetown University, and Amherst College.

Acting President and Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo published an essay in the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) Bulletin (fall 2008, vol. 40, no. 1). In "Counting to One is Not Counting," Urgo questions why the Spellings commission did not consider the humanities in its report. "It is not simply that the Spelling commission report fails to mention the humanities as a factor in higher education; the report itself is devoid of a humanities perspective on what it means to be an educated human being."

Hamilton was represented by 26 students at Power Shift 2009, held Feb. 27-March 2, in Washington, D.C. The conference brought 10,000 young people to Washington to mobilize, network, learn, teach, make a statement, and lobby congress to make some real progress on global warming. Students met with members of Congress to discuss rebuilding our economy and reclaiming our future through bold climate and clean energy policy.

Paul Belonick '02 has been named editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review, the journal of the University of Virginia Law School and one of the most cited law journals in the country. Belonick was a classical languages and history major at Hamilton and is a graduate student in history as well as a law student at UVA.

One of the goals of Hamilton's Program in Washington is to connect classroom learning with the direct experience of politics and decision-making in the nation's capital. On February 25, participants in the program had an extraordinary opportunity to do just that at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Julie Sze, professor of American studies at the University of California-Davis and environmental justice author, will lecture on "Environmental Justice and Environmental Humanities at the Crossroads" at Hamilton College on Monday, March 2. Sze's talk will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center, and is free and open to the public.