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Students started creating Hamilton’s community mosaic mural on Jan. 27 and 28 with the help of Boston artist Josh Winer. The mosaic is being built to illustrate inclusivity and community.

Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented to Katheryn Doran, Kira Jumet, Andrea Townsend, Cindy Domack, and Colette Gilligan.

Team Varga was the overall winner of the 2018 HamTrek triathlon with a time of 59:02.39, Men’s swimming and diving team member Chris Klein ’18 was the male individual winner with a time of 1:01:02.82, and Assistant Professor of Geosciences Cat Beck was the top female individual at 01:09:10.29.

Marquis Palmer ’18 will explore “The Inner-World of Skateboarding Communities” in his Watson fellowship. Palmer, recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa, also received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to the Czech Republic.

“How I became an atheist,” a poem by Heidi Wong ’20 has been announced as the winner of the Button Poetry 2018 Short Form Contest.

“Know thyself” is the motto that guides Hamilton students, and Joe Pucci ’18 is living up to that in his Bristol Fellowship, “Values, Methodologies and Locales in Learning Environments: An Inquiry Into Knowing Thyself.”

Working with Hamilton’s Sustainability Coordinators, more than 40 students planted 500 seedlings on 3-acres of the old golf course off Campus Road on April 15.

Gillian Mak ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Malaysia. Mak explained why she chose Malaysia. “First, I have a family connection. My grandmother moved to the United States for college and we still have a significant amount of family there-- though I have never visited,” she said.

Paula Ortiz ’18 will explore practices of active meditation in India, Japan, New Zealand, and Bolivia next year as the recipient of a Watson Fellowship.

Audrey Nadler ’18 is eager to return to Spain after graduation as the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA). She spent her junior year abroad in Madrid with Hamilton's Academic Year in Spain program. She is a world politics and Hispanic studies major.