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Big — in fact GREAT — Names on campus. Student research with a practical use. Memorable seasons for the Continentals. Check out our most popular stories from 2025.

Max Girard '24, Charlotte Clark '25 and Assistant Professor of Biology Ariel Kahrl recently published work in the journal Integrative and Organismal Biology that began as a summer science research project lead by Girard.

This summer, Levitt Center student researchers Luke Hanson ’26, Delaney Patterson ’26, Samuel Low ’28, and Ton Somnug ’27 joined forces with Griffiss Institute CEO and Hamilton alumna Heather Hage ’02 to investigate the holistic impact of federal spending on the local economy. In November, the Griffiss Institute released findings from the research study.

Student research and publications are among achievements in the fall 2025 semester.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sarah Morrison-Smith recently presented an invited talk for the Human Factors Seminar at Tufts University. She also demonstrated Pectogram in Denver, at the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.

Through Emerson Foundation Grants and Levitt Summer Research Fellowships, Hamilton students forge their own research paths. Explore what three summer grantees said about the inspiration and significance of their projects.

With 26 locations needing a different number of food pallets each day — and 10 trucks each with their own capacity limits — designing an efficient route had been an arduous task for the Food Bank of Central New York (FBCNY). That’s where Hughes “Hugh” Williams ’26 came in. This summer he created an algorithm that can determine each day’s optimal route within seconds.

Parks, playgrounds, community centers, libraries, and cafés are the backdrop for many cherished memories, from chatting over coffee to playing tag. These places occupy a third sphere outside of the home and the workplace, a space emphasizing friendship and connection. Victoria “Vicky” Holland Oliveira ’26, Nicholas Kreidler ’28, and Chloe Root ’28 embarked on an investigation of these “third spaces” through a Levitt research grant this summer, seeking to understand the status and history of recreation and community in Utica, our neighboring city.

Supported by Hamilton’s International Summer Research Fellowship, five students found new perspectives on their studies, the global community, and their identities.

While Charli XCX may have started the movement, Brat Summer found an unlikely new figurehead in presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Carter Higgins ’26 returns to the scene of Harris’ Brat era to perform a digital and linguistic autopsy, revealing the unstable nature of modern political marketing in the Internet Age.