Digital Hamilton
Digital Hamilton encompasses learning opportunities using advanced technologies to explore and create research projects across the College’s disciplines.
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Resources
Find experts and digital tools at Burke Library's Research and Design Studio.
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Digital Pedagogy Fellowships
Faculty create new assignments or teaching strategies that employ digital technology.Learning Data Science Across Disciplines
Data science combines statistics and computing with the expertise needed to interpret the data. -
Chronicle of Higher Education Highlights Hamilton
College’s work in incorporating virtual reality into classroom instruction is featured.
We want our students to understand the power and limits of computing processes; the potential uses of data, analytics, and computer modeling; the use of digital media to communicate and collaborate; the privacy, security, and other ethical and societal implications of living in an online world; and the basics of information fluency, including how to find, organize, evaluate, and interpret online information.
Recent News
Mixing the Creative & Digital into an Independent Concentration
Mix a passion for technology and design with a self-motivated student focused on crypto, NFTs, blockchain, and the metaverse, and you have the ingredients for a personalized concentration that combines art and computer science.
Digital Hamilton: Learning Data Science Across Disciplines
A math major with an environmental studies minor, Rachel Pike ’21 saw data science as a natural combination of her interests, and a new course gave her a chance to confirm that.
Saving a Small Nation’s History
Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie, Photography and Digital Imagery Specialist Marianita Peaslee, College archivist Jeremy Katz, and students Elizabeth Atherton ’22 and Emma Tomlins ’23 traveled to Nevis to digitize records with the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society.
The existential themes of love, death, and time were explored in the AI-scripted and human-performed musical production Channelers, an interdisciplinary art project funded by the Dietrich Inchworm Grant and headed by Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Anna Huff.
The New World Nature Project, leaning heavily on digital humanities skills, has produced new online tools and databases that will be of potential value to scholars everywhere.
Three Professors Earn Digital Pedagogy Fellowships
Three Hamilton professors are enhancing their teaching with digital capabilities thanks to Innovations in Digital Pedagogy Fellowships.
Intro to Computer Science: It’s Not Just for Majors Anymore
To all majors in history, sociology, literature, economics, Africana studies, and sundry other subjects — welcome to Computer Science 101.
Comp. Sci. Group Trains AI Machines to Communicate
Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Perkins and his research group explore if AIs could learn from each other.
“Augmented reality, where you see the physical world and there’s digital information that you can mix with it, can facilitate people’s curiosity and learning, and connect people.
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