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2025 Faculty and Coach Retirees collage

Professors, Coaches Share Parting Thoughts

Hamilton bids goodbye to a remarkable cohort of faculty as they enter retirement. We asked them to reflect on their careers, changes at the College, and the future.

Isabelle Nahon ’27 and Sydney Chen ’27 work on their summer research project with the computer science department.

Comp. Sci. Students, Helmuth Study Cutting Edge Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) have been at the forefront of the zeitgeist ever since publicly available AI programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene. Three Hamilton comp. sci. majors are spending their summer researching this cutting-edge technology with Professor Thomas Helmuth ’09.

2025 Commencement procession

What's Next: Class of 2025

They arrived with curiosity, drive, and a sense of possibility — and now Hamilton’s Class of 2025 is stepping boldly into what’s next, with graduation canes in hand and valuable lessons learned. What shaped them during their four years on College Hill? Which moments, mentors, and courses stand out?

  • This summer marks the 50th anniversary of The New England Center for Children (NECC), the life’s work of its founder and longtime CEO, Vinnie Strully ’69. Looking back, how did a Hamilton government major, with no clear career path, go on to establish what would become one of the world’s leading organizations for the treatment of children and adolescents with autism just five years after graduating?

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  • Those attending Hamilton's 2024 Commencement ceremony were the first to witness one of the College’s newest traditions: the reading of the Land Acknowledgment at the start of major institutional events.

  • Hamilton’s oldest a cappella group, the Buffers are marking a milestone this year — 75 years of sharing song and laughter on College Hill and beyond. Here’s a look at just a few highlights through the decades.

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  • Two Hamilton chemistry students spent part of their summer unraveling a decades-old campus mystery – the true identity of the beloved peonies in Grant Garden. Saunders left behind scant documentation of what species he used to create his world-renowned hybrids. So, John “JP” Hoak ’27, Mark Khairallah ’27, and Biology Professor Wei-Jen Chang are sleuthing for clues not in records, but in DNA.

  • Charlotte Ameringer ’88 works small. As chief conservator at the Portland Art Museum, she recently spent nine months ever so gently removing varnish from a painting in Monet’s famous “Waterlilies” series.

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