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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented “Afrocentrism or Assimilation: the Case of Rita Dove's ‘Darker Face of the Earth’” at the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series “Greek Drama in African-American Theatre” on March 13, at Northwestern University. The Sawyer Seminars examine the reception of Athenian drama in socio-political contexts and are part of Northwestern’s Classical Traditions Initiative.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn gave a talk, "Permutations and Geometric Realizations of Complete Bipartite Graphs," at the Discrete Mathematics Seminar at the University of Victoria on March 8. The presentation was based on her current sabbatical leave research, which uses the combinatorial structure of inversions in permutations to classify the straight-line drawings of complete bipartite graphs. The topic is an offshoot of joint work with Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin.

While many undergraduates head home or to balmy beach resorts to rest up after grueling midterms, 98 Hamilton students will drive south to volunteer at nonprofit organizations in nine cities during Spring Break, March 13-28. This year marks Hamilton's 17th Alternative Spring Break (ASB), an annual volunteer venture that consists of nine different community service trips to non-profit organizations in the south.

Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of Chinese and director of Associated Colleges in China Program, has been appointed chair of the AP Chinese Development Committee for 2010-2013.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin recently published a research article "Determining Sets, Resolving Sets, and the Exchange Property" in Graphs and Combinatorics. In this work, Boutin examines two classes of subsets in a network, each of which can be used to uniquely identify both the vertices and the symmetries of the network. In particular she examines when such subsets are analogous to a basis, a set that is fundamental to other areas of mathematics.

Sixty-eight members of the Hamilton College Choir and College Hill Singers will spend the first week of their spring break in March touring the Northeast as part of the annual choir tour. This year's tour will take the choir as far south as Arlington, Va., and north to Burlington, Vt.

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.”