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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.

Sophomore Galia Slayen was featured on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Say Something website, described by the publication as a collection of “stories from college students about what they’re up to and why.” In the March 7 story and linked audio recording, Slayen described the recent National Eating Disorder Awareness Week activities on campus and her motivation for engaging in the project. A committee of students, headed by Slayen and Perry Ryan ’12 provided the impetus for Hamilton’s participation in the national awareness week.

About 90 members of the Hamilton community participated in the annual America’s Greatest Heart Run & Walk on Saturday, March 5, at Utica College. Although donations are still being counted it’s estimated that Team Hamilton raised approximately $5700. These volunteers were among the 8444 total participants who walked or ran between three and five miles.

Hamilton’s curling team has recently competed in two bonspiels (tournaments). The team traveled to Boston for their first bonspiel of the year, where they competed against teams from MIT, Villanova, Colgate and RPI. A week later, the Club, in conjunction with the Colgate Curling Club and Mary Jane Walsh from the Utica Curling Club, hosted the first Utica Curling Club Collegiate Friendly with 13 teams.

Hamilton College will remain closed today, March 7, due to snow conditions.  All classes are cancelled. The College will reopen at the normal time on Tuesday, March 8.