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NYC Program students explored their artistic sides with a guided tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in March. Founded in 1870, the museum's millions of square feet contain exhibits from Asia, Egypt, the Americas, and every other corner of the world. In particular, the students' tour focused on the French artist Pierre Bonnard, whose unique use of color and perspective were quietly influential during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole L. Snyder and Hamilton students Ben Van Arnam '09, Kathie Alser '09, Gail Corneau '10 and Lydia Rono '11 presented their research during the 237th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition held March 22 through March 26 in Salt Lake City.

Hamilton's Faculty Support Specialist Janet Simons, Director of Instructional Technology Support Service Nikki Reynolds and Director of Public Service Carolyn Carpan, and Dave Baird of Colgate University, presented on the Media Scholarship Collaboration among Hamilton, Colgate University, and St. Lawrence University at two recent conferences.

James Bradfield, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics, and Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods participated in Glimmerglass University at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown on March 28. Proceeds from the one-day "Food For Thought" program benefited the Cooperstown Food Bank. 

Seventy-three members of the Hamilton College Choir spent 12 days of spring break traveling across Italy as performers in the annual Hamilton College Choir Concert Tour. Singing from Venice, to Florence, to Perugia, to Rome, the students completed the choir's sixth European concert tour under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb. While the choir tours a region of the United States every March, the European tour is a special privilege that comes only once every four years. 

Hamilton students participating in the recent Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to South Carolina were featured in a news story in the Marion Star & Mullins Enterprise and on the Web site scnow.com (4/1/09).

Students from the Program in Washington, D.C. joined about 40 alumni at the Great Hamilton College Networking Party, sponsored by the Washington D.C. Alumni Association on March 30. It featured a panel of alumni talking about getting that first job.

Isha Ojha '09 has been selected as a finalist in Photographer's Forum magazine's 29th Annual College Photography Contest. Her photograph will be printed in the hardcover book Best of College Photography 2009 which will be distributed by the end of June 2009.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Pakistani novelist and translator, will read from his work, The Adventures of Amir-Hamza: The Making of an Indo-Islamic Legend, on Wednesday, April 1, at 4 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. It is free and open to the public.

In a March 16 Wall Street Journal (Europe edition) article, Edward S. Walker '62, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Hamilton government professor, discussed the possible influence that Israel's new foreign minister, nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, might have on the peace process. Walker, the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, served as ambassador to Israel in 1997-1999, overlapping with the years in which Netanyahu first served as prime minister,