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If you walked around campus on a nice day this summer, you would likely have seen a pair of Hamilton students hammering metal tags onto trees. You might well have seen them doing it over, and over, and over again.

Artificial intelligence and climate change are among the very foremost hot-button issues of today. This summer, a project by Adam Koplik ’25 and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Heather Kropp is using one to explore the other—by employing machine learning to measure vegetation change in the Arctic.

For some students, summer is a time to relax and decompress; for others, it is a time to develop résumés and professional qualifications. For a few members of the Hamilton baseball team, it offers the perfect opportunity to improve their game — only a few minutes from campus.

For an undergraduate student interested in theatre, the opportunity to contribute to every aspect of a production is invaluable. Interns at square product theatre in Boulder, Colo., get to do exactly that — just ask Del Gonzales ’25 who is spending the summer working with and learning from professionals in the field he plans to pursue at Hamilton and beyond.

You’d be hard-pressed to sum up Mike Weinzierl ’15 in just one word. Since leaving Hamilton less than a decade ago, he has pursued many paths: captain, divemaster, educator, scientist, and entrepreneur in places ranging from Saudi Arabia to Florida to Colombia.

“What happens when natural things — pollen in a gust of wind, a carnivorous pitcher plant, an armadillo’s thick skin — enter human history?” Thus begins the introduction to Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds, a new book conceived and co-edited by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley.

For most people, international sports competitions are accessible only through TV screens. In January, however, Kate Stewart ’84 was toeing the line in precisely such an event, competing in speed skating at the World Masters Allround Games.

On Sunday, June 25, the New York City Pride Parade took place on the streets of Manhattan, celebrating sexuality and advocating for social and political change. Among the hundreds of thousands of attendees were 32 Hamilton students on a trip organized by the Days-Massolo Center (DMC) and Gender and Sexuality Union, whose planning and funding made this opportunity possible for the second year in a row.

When gun violence changed his life forever, Lelan O’Brien ’23 decided to take action. After interning with the Brady Campaign, which works to end gun violence, O’Brien served as a Courage Fellow for Giffords, a group led by shooting survivor and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords. This month, O’Brien attended a lobby in Washington, D.C., where he met Giffords and other lawmakers working toward a safer future.

Four years ago, Jason Le ’23 might not have believed it if you told him that he would one day attend film school. As a first-year student, Le intended to major in biology on a pre-med track.