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Composer-artist Ben Moore ’82 was commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera Festival to compose a youth opera about Robin Hood. The opera debuts on Aug 8 and runs through Aug. 18 at Glimmerglass Opera Festival in Cooperstown.

Home Fire, a new novel by Kamila Shamsie ‘’94 has been named to the Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist, or “Man Booker Dozen.” The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a prestigious British award, open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK.

President David Wippman recently announced the appointment of four Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Siobhan Robinson and summer research students Sara Aldrich ’19 and Tatenda Chakoma ’18 presented their “Have Brains, Will Travel” outreach program to Laura Pominville’s 5th grade class at Clinton Elementary School in June.

She accomplished all she set out to do at Hamilton, and now economics and Chinese concentrator Lisa Yang '17 is ready to pay it forward.

Chemical physics major Clare Munroe '18 is spending six weeks in Berlin studying at one of the world's most prestigious research institutions.

Victoria Blumenfeld ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Malaysia for the 2017-18 academic year.

Hamilton’s Communications office was honored for its work on the College’s recent website redesign with a Circle of Excellence gold award, the organization's top national award in that category, from the Council or Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). It received the top award from among 64 entries in the website category.

Jonathan Overpeck ’79, one of the nation’s leading experts on climate change, has been appointed the inaugural dean of the University of Michigan (U-M) School for Environment and Sustainability.

Four Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College’s Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The board granted tenure to Rob Knight, art, Chinthaka Kuruwita, mathematics, and Xavier Tubau, Hispanic studies. With the granting of tenure comes the title of associate professor.