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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.

Florence “Flo” Turiaf ’17 has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Removed Yet Within: An Exploration of Identities Within Non-Sovereign Territories.”

Derian De La Torre ’18 and Jie Ying Mei ’19 have been awarded Freeman-ASIA awards for study abroad in China this summer.

For the second consecutive year Hamilton’s Mathletics Team has won the Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and St. Lawrence University. Each team’s top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam, given in December, were added together to determine the winner.

Julie Lin ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan. She's a literature and studio art major who studied at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Rome.

Michael Lubelczyk ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. A history major minoring in German, he studied at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, in 2016.

Vice President and Dean of Students Nancy Thompson was honored as the 2017 Distinguished Service Award recipient by Hamilton’s Alumni Association. Alumni Association President Gordon Kaye ’74, P ’05 presented the award on April 7 during the Alumni Council’s Recognition dinner.

Yuwen Michelson ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Laos. A sociology concentrator at Hamilton, she served as a volunteer English teacher through Global Vision International in Laos during summer, 2014.

Alexander Dennis ’18, a computer science and math major, has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. It's the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering.