All News

James Robbins came to Hamilton to talk about someone no Hamilton student wants to be: the individuals last in their class. Robbins was talking in particular about the “Goats,” men who graduated last in their class from West Point and ended up fighting in the Civil War. He drew extensively from his book, Last in their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Ghosts of West Point (2006) in providing an often-humorous overview of America's most famous Goats.

The Hamilton College Choir will perform in seven Mid-Atlantic cities during its annual March tour. The 64-member choir will begin the tour on Saturday, March 12, in Stroudsburg, Pa., and conclude on Friday, March 18, in Princeton, N.J.

Several prints by William R. Kenan Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead and Professor of Art William Salzillo are on display at the Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition in Peoria, Ill. Included in the exhibition are Muirhead’s “Secret Viewers” and “Fourth of July,” and “Nightingale” by Salzillo. Organized by Bradley University, the biennial juried show runs through April 15.

Patrick D. Reynolds, professor of biology at Hamilton, has been appointed dean of faculty at the college, effective July 1, 2011. He is currently serving in that capacity on an interim basis.

An 80-mile bike ride and a Facebook posting with a photo was all it took to propel Stephen Wright ’13 to Chobani yogurt fame. Wright stars in a “Real Chobani Love Story” commercial that is currently airing on TV.

Professor of French John C. O’Neal has authored a new book, The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment, published by the University of Delaware Press. 

Before coming to Hamilton, Sam Reider ’14 created a decision tool on a whiteboard to help organize his college choices. During his first year on campus, he converted his process into an automated program and loaded it onto his site www.CollegePick.us. The New York Times’ The Choice, a site designed to “demystify college admissions and aid,” featured Reider’s site in a March 8 article, Online Aid for Making ‘The Decision,’ From a College Freshman.

Mark Padilla, provost and professor of classics at Christopher Newport University, will present a lecture titled “Classical Myth in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock” on Thursday, March 10, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.  

James Robbins, senior editorial writer for foreign affairs at the Washington Times, will present a lecture on “West Point Culture and the Civil War” on Thursday, March 10, at 4:15 p.m. in the Hamilton College Kirner-Johnson Red Pit (127). The event is free and open to the public.

The Digital Humanities Initiative Spring Lecture Series will host Matt Knutzen, geospatial librarian in The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at the New York Public Library (NYPL), on March 10 and 11.