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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair - International Affairs and Professor of Government; Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown; Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas; Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill; Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Jane Springer; and Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner were honored.

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented to Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz ’82, Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams, and Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were announced at Hamilton’s annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 13, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, David Gagnidze ‘20 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Jonathan Stickel ’19 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.

Swedish electronic dance music duo Galantis was the headliner at the annual Class & Charter Day concert on May 10. A severe weather threat forced the concert indoors but that didn’t stop the student audience from appreciating the show.

Madeline Carlman ’19 has been awarded the college’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Creating Community in Book Places.” She’ll examine how book places such as libraries, book shops, book clubs, and book fairs work to create community.

Samantha D'Angelo ’21 has been awarded a Coccia Foundation Scholarship for study in Italy. She is a physics major and Italian and history minor who plans to pursue her passions for Italian language and culture by studying in Taormina, Sicily, through the API Babilonia Institute Program.

Team Jillings, Uribe, Fowy was the overall winner of the 2019 HamTrek triathlon with a time of 58:06.48 on May 3. Swim team member Jake Fowy ’19 swam 21 lengths in the pool, Cross Country team member Anaidys 'Andy' Uribe ‘19 handled the running portion, and Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings biked for the winners.

Jon Gerstein ’21 plans to go into politics after college and may have just gotten a head start on that career. Gerstein was elected president of the College Democrats of NY (CDNY) at the organization’s annual convention in April.

Catherine Ryczek '21 has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for the 2019-20 academic year. She is among 496 undergraduate sophomores and juniors from across the U.S. to receive the Goldwater, the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Alexandra (Allie) Gale ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil. A world politics major with a focus in Latin America, Gale was a Rotary Youth Exchange student in Joao Pinheiro, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2014-15.