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Hamilton's highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members during the annual Class & Charter Day ceremony on May 8.

Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Margaret Gentry on Class & Charter Day on May 8.

Rapper Lupe Fiasco headlined the annual Class & Charter concert on May 5 in the Field House. Rapper Luke Christopher opened the show and DJ Bradley was selected from among Hamilton student DJs to do a 20-minute set to start off the event.

A class in meteorology with Professor of Geosciences Cynthia Domack led not only a spring internship with a local TV meteorologist, but a summer internship in the field for Michael Hosek ’19.

Hamilton College’s Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place Monday, May 8, at 4:15 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Taryn Ruf ’17 has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “The Whey Forward: Exploring Cheese Producers’ Blending of Tradition and Modernity.”

Jack Wright ’19, last year’s winner of the Adirondack Council’s Wilderness Writing Contest, collected on his prize of an airplane flight over the Adirondacks on April 23. He was chosen based on a letter he wrote to Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressing reasons why the state should expand the High Peaks Wilderness area.

Juniors Andre Burnham and Derian De La Torre have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad this summer. Burnham will attend the Babilonia Language School in Sicily and De La Torre will study in Hamilton’s Associated Colleges in China program in Beijing.

Students and faculty in the Classics Department participated in the annual Parilia conference, held this year at Skidmore College on April 21. Each year the Classics Departments from Hamilton, Skidmore and Union Colleges come together in late April for an undergraduate research conference. The Parilia conference is named after a Roman rural spring festival celebrated on April 21.

Sarah Hogoboom ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Vietnam. A world politics major, she studied in Nepal, Jordan and Chile through the School for International Training Honors Program in Human Rights in 2016.