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Less than a year after becoming need-blind in admission, Hamilton College has announced “Bicentennial Initiatives,” a $117 million capital campaign whose primary objective is funding the new policy.

“Shakespeare’s Dolphin, Dumbo’s Feather, and Other Red Herrings: Some Thoughts on Intention and Meaning,” by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz, has been published in Style as part of a cluster of articles devoted to Shakespeare’s intentions.

Local radio stations WIBX and Lite 98.7 aired an interview with Susanna White, associate director and curator of the Emerson Gallery, on Nov. 21. The 14-minute segment was part of Central New York Travel, Oneida County Tourism’s weekly radio show.

The Hamilton College Hill Singers, directed by Professor G. Roberts Kolb, will lead a Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 4 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. Organ music and accompaniment will be provided by Professor of Music Sam Pellman. The service is free and open to the public.

Musical performances by the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble and The College Chamber Ensembles will be featured this weekend.

The fall F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Language in Motion) series concludes with self-taught photographer Hitoshi Toyoda and his slideshow NAZUNA on Sunday, Dec. 5, at 2 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, Kirner-Johnson Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, has been named to the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) Polar Research Vessel Committee, which will plan the progress for a new Polar Research Vessel (PRV) for the U.S. Antarctic Program.

The Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society presented its winter concert on Nov. 30 in Wellin Hall. Directed by G. Roberts Kolb, the program celebrated the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s birth. Featured on the program were Schumann’s Missa Sacra, Nachtlied, and Scenes From Goethe’s Faust.

Associate Professor of History Chad Williams recently presented his work at several recent major national conferences. On Oct. 1 Williams chaired and participated in a roundtable discussion on “African Americans and World War I in History, Memory and Culture,” at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Raleigh, N.C.

Award-winning author Marilyn Chin will read from her work on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.