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As Lindsey Foster ’20 walked to her Global Shakespeare class earlier this year, she received a call from an unknown number. She answered, only guessing at who might be calling. That’s when she got the news — she had been accepted to Cornell Law School.

In the spring semester computer science course “Wearable Tech,” students learned how to create fun, useful gadgets that could attach to a variety of items, from hoodies to baseball gloves to plants, to relay information and provide additional services.

Theatre adapts, reflects, and, most importantly, survives. The industry is no stranger to abrupt, closure when the unexpected happens. Shakespeare himself lived through several recurrences of the plague, writing through quarantine restrictions, and imagining the new stories, characters, and worlds that would go on to be celebrated for hundreds of years.

Emma Belanger ’20 knew that she wanted to explore pursue her interests in Chinese and Russian language and culture after graduation, but wasn't sure how. Then, while studying abroad, she learned of Harbin, a town in China on the border of Russia.

History major Olivia Maddox ’20 is excited to begin work as an educational consultant at Apolish, a New York City branch of the Chinese consulting firm Thinktown.

With his ongoing research project “The Spiritual Life of Dolls: Religious Technologies from Adam to Barbie to AI,” Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate has been slowly uncovering humanity’s knack for reimagining the human form and engaging with it in myriad impactful, personal ways.

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), one of the foremost associations in social science and humanities scholarship, awards highly competitive scholarships to a select number of applicants to support their academic research and writing. As such, the prestigious fellowships often require years of application fine-tuning to achieve. Assistant Professor of Literature Stephanie Bahr secured one on her first try.

Though she found her job “through a happy coincidence,” it’s clear that the power of the Hamilton alumni-student network and a palpable enthusiasm for biology led Amelia Boyd ’20 to her upcoming position as an allergist research assistant.

Ty Kunzman ’20 plans to celebrate his Hamilton graduation by heading right back to school. In June he’ll begin work on his Master of Education in Student Affairs Practice in Higher Education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Development.

Several Hamilton professors participated in “Iran, Iraq & the U.S.: Panel & Discussion” on Jan. 22.