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Students participating in the NYC program enjoyed a performance of Puccini’s La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan on Feb. 20. This was the first experience at the opera for many students in the program and they were captivated by the storyline, the beauty of the music, and the grandeur of the sets.

Hedge fund manager and Hamilton alumnus Jack Selby ’96 is featured in a Forbes.com article “Crowdsourcing movies” (3/9/10) that notes his Hamilton College affiliation.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate was quoted throughout an article titled “Oscar Prophecy: Bet on God. You Can't Lose” that appeared on March 6 in PoliticsDaily.com, an online newspaper with about 9 million monthly visitors. The author of Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World, Plate discussed the reporter’s basic premise, that “religion is everywhere in the movies, and more than ever and in more forms than ever.”

Local NPR affiliate WRVO (Utica, 91.9FM) will air the Royal Gelatin Hour with the Hamilton College Choir on Thursday, March 11, at 9:06 p.m. The clip appears on the WRVO Playhouse, which features “old time radio.”

Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French, will discuss “Piety and Profanity in Medieval French Conduct Books,” on Thursday, March 11, at 4:10 p.m., in the Hamilton Science Center’s classroom 3024. The lecture was rescheduled from Feb. 25, when it was postponed due to inclement weather.  It is the sixth in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.

Twenty-nine Chinese concentrators met with Bob Delaney ’79 and John Rice ’78, charter trustees of Hamilton College, for an informal conversation about their future careers on March 5. Delaney joined Crestview Partners in 2007 after retiring from Goldman Sachs in 2003 where he served in a variety of leadership positions. Rice currently serves as vice chairman of GE and president & CEO of GE Technology Infrastructure.

Charter Trustee Richard Bernstein '80 returned to the Hill on March 5 to address Chris Georges's macro theory and Erol Balkan's international finance classes on the current global economic climate, and offer a few tips for members of the Class of 2010 who are about to enter the work force. Bernstein, who is currently teaching classes at New York University, is CEO of Richard Bernstein Capital Management LLC. He was formerly Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist.

Hamilton College had another strong turn-out for America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, held this year on Saturday, March 6, at Utica College. Team Hamilton pre-registered more than 80 runners and walkers for the annual event. These volunteers joined a record 8,740 participants in walking and running between three and five miles. The Heart Run and Walk raises money and awareness for the American Heart Association and its fight against heart disease and stroke. Hamilton has fielded a team for many years. Participants included athletic teams, student organizations, Hamilton staff and faculty.

Hamilton's Winslow Professor of Classics Carl A. Rubino will present a talk titled “Articulating Wonder in a Secular Age" in the Imagining America series on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. at The Other Side, Utica. The Other Side is located at 2011 Genesee St. in Utica, across from the Uptown Theater and next to the Cafe Domenico. Parking is available, and admission is free.

At a time when parents are beginning to question whether they can afford a college education for their children, Hamilton has announced that it will make admission decisions without considering an applicant’s ability to pay. The college already meets the full demonstrated need of every student it accepts and will continue to do so. The new policy at Hamilton, which is known as need-blind admission, is effective with the class currently being admitted for the fall of 2010.