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The Wellin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, Theaters of Fiction – works that address both the theater and opera’s historic associations with power, privilege, and wealth and those that represent sites of more democratic and popular entertainment – opens on Saturday, Feb. 16.

We are all too familiar with the pressing question of our childhood: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Our answers were often times idealistic but impractical, typically inspired by the superheroes we looked up to, the fairies we read about in books, or the astronauts we imagined as we peered up into space.

Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon ’84 and Thomas Tull ’92, chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based investment-holding company Tulco, will discuss how emerging technologies are revolutionizing today’s businesses in a special program at Hamilton College.

On the anniversary of the Posse Foundation’s 30th anniversary, 158 students, staff, and faculty ventured off the Hill and into Utica for the annual PossePlus Retreat (PPR).

At first, you hear just a voice. The screen is black, then fills with the pink-purple-blue motion of an otherworldly night sky. From the bottom of the screen, a solitary figure in a hoodie rises, back to the camera, to speak the next line of his spoken-word poem. It’s Sacharja Cunningham ’19.

To set foot in India’s Vishnupada temple, the most important site in the sacred city of Gaya, is to absorb a sense of place and purpose. With its niches, shrines, and statues, the temple is rich with information, and every object tells a story about Gaya’s complex history. This is why Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar wants students in his Dying, Death, and Afterlife course to experience Vishnupada inside and out.

The Hamilton of 1837 was a staid, Presbyterian institution. Yet that year, a decade after the liberation of the last slaves in New York State, 58 Hamilton students — more than 60 percent of the student body — signed and sent to Congress a strongly worded petition to ban slavery in the United States. Their action would anger state legislators, jeopardize College funding, and trigger a crackdown on student abolitionists. The signers were members of the Hamilton Anti-Slavery Society, an affiliate of William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society.

Achievement. Ambition. American Dream. Capitalism. Free Competition. Free Enterprise. Maybe the most challenging part of the research for Andrew Wei ’20 was constructing the dictionary of terms he would use to mine Google News data. But on the trail of research, Wei is seemingly unstoppable. He created a dictionary of not the typical one or two search terms but 38. That brought him some 30,000 data sets with which to work.

She gets a lot of questions about her majors — neuroscience and dance — because they seem divergent, but in a classroom discussion with other dance students Katie McMorrow ’20 discovered kindred academic spirits.

Kayla Self ’21, a member of the women’s volleyball team, recently attended the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2019 convention in Orlando, Fla. The NCAA is a member-led organization dedicated to the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes. Hamilton is a member of the NCAA’s Division III.