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Last fall, Chenchen Zhao ’18 took Linear Optimization, a mathematics course with Professor Sally Cockburn. Zhao and Cockburn are designing an integer linear program that places incoming students into orientation groups, with as many as possible getting their top choices.

Inspired by writer Kathy Acker, Joe Rupprecht ’19 crafted a summer research project he called "Art as Resistance: New Narrative Writers and Queer Zine Culture of the 1980s."

As part of Performing Women, Caitlin McQuade ’18 read the work of an artist affiliated with The Orchard Project,  a non-profit arts incubator in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

As a student art assistant in the Kennedy Arts Center, Marisabel Rey ’19 spent hours loading and unloading kilns in the ceramics studio. Her interest grew, and eventually she would devote a summer to exploring the glazing process.

For the past two years Rachel Alatalo ’18 has maintained a personal blog as a way to practice writing and acquire a personal voice. “When I came out as bisexual a year ago, it was a natural progression to start including LGBTIQ issues when I wrote about my life,” said Alatalo, a creative writing major.

After coming to the sad realization that coral, which is on the brink of global extinction, would not be an especially prudent area of marine biology to specialize in, Aaron Beguelin ’18 turned his attention to sea urchins. Urchins, which feed on coral reefs and kelp, are primary consumers, similar to cows on land, and are highly important to the eco-system, playing a crucial role in algae growth.

During her time at Hamilton, Annie Sher ’18 has developed a strong interest in public interest law and advocacy. Last summer, she interned in the legal department at Sanctuary for Families, a nonprofit service provider for victims of gender violence. “While looking for an internship this year I knew I wanted to remain in the legal sphere. I focused my search on various types of organizations that provide pro-bono legal services,” said Sher.

For his 2017 Emerson project, Marquis Palmer ’18 is filming a short documentary, based in his home city of Utica, about the experience of losing a loved one to the prison system.

In January, after encouragement from a friend, Sarah Robertson ’19 joined the Hamilton College Real Estate Club, and discovered her interest in the mechanics of buying and selling properties. She is interning at Wexler and Kaufman, PLLC, which specializes in representing buyers and sellers in commercial and residential real estate transactions, the precise field Robertson hoped to investigate this summer.

As a neuroscience major at Hamilton, Erin Donahue ’18 has stuck mostly to a pre-health curriculum. This summer, Donahue is participating in the Summer Research Immersion program at Binghamton University, where she is gaining exposure to the research field.