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Find out what Anna Huff Mercovich, new assistant professor of digital arts, has discovered after her first semester at Hamilton, and learn about the technology she’ll be exploring with students in next semester’s New Frontiers and Storytelling.

Although we have all faced the same pandemic and adapted to our own forms of isolation, we each have felt and experienced the past nine months in our own way. Debuted on Dec. 11, the visual, choral Twenty / Twenty project gives viewers a glimpse into both the individual and the collective, drawing from personal responses to COVID-19 in a collaborative and socially distant way.

Tucked away in the Taylor Science Center’s greenhouse, a new aquaponics system brims with tilapia, lettuce, and other developing life. Built in 2019 by Hamilton’s Aquaponics Club, the system promotes on-campus food sustainability while also providing a space for students and faculty to learn about aquaponics. And with its accessibility, regular maintenance, and potential to expand with student interest, the system does just that.

Lindsay Gearty ’21 knew for most of her adult life that she wanted to maintain her passion for mathematics. And so she has. A physics and mathematics double major, she’s spent the last four years involving herself in math-based courses and extracurriculars and now “can’t wait to start” her actuarial career with The Hartford.

A love for lab research has characterized Kaela Makins’ ’21 Hamilton experience, and she wants to ensure that other students of color can discover and maintain their own passion for STEM studies. That’s why she serves as an organizer for Black in Cancer.

The Racial Justice and Criminal Justice in Oneida & Herkimer Counties Series continued on Oct. 7 with its third installment titled “Why is Diversity Not Enough?: Training and Best Practices for Policing Reform.”

Traci Burch, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University, gave Hamilton’s annual Constitution Day Lecture with a talk titled “Public and Media Attention to Officer-Involved Killings.” The lecture detailed the constitutional right to protest, and examined the effectivity of protests in holding police accountable for officer-involved killings, drawing on the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement.

Given the chance to serve as a Young Ambassador for The German Academic Exchange Service, Eamon Gibbons ’21, a biology major and German minor, eagerly said yes.

As a math major considering a graduate degree in applied mathematics, it didn’t take Summer Sheng '21 long to realize that a pandemic-based project would be relevant to the emerging crisis and to him personally.

This summer a dozen Hamilton students gained academic credit and an insider’s view into one of the country’s most hotly contested congressional campaigns.