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Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, will deliver Hamilton College’s 2018 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
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What does it mean to have “equal access” to higher education in different cultures? Kureem Nugent ’18, recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship intends to spend the next year answering just that. He said his experience at a small liberal arts college as a first-generation student will lead him to explore how cultural capital plays a role in the path to higher education.
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History major Elza Harb ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Cyprus.
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Seniors Elizabeth Perry and Danielle Reisley recently presented posters at the 2018 Geological Society of America (GSA) Northeastern Section meeting in Burlington, Vt.
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The serendipitous discovery of a passion for computer science has opened many doors for Eseosa Asiruwa ’18, who will head to Adobe to become a software engineer in tools after graduation. “I’ll be helping to build the software that releases new software and updates to the digital imaging operations Adobe has. Photoshop and Illustrator, work like that,” she explained.
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Kureem Nugent ’18, Isabel O'Malley ’18, Paula Ortiz ’18, and Marquis Palmer ’18 have been named Watson Fellows providing them a $30,000 stipend to pursue a “year of independent, purposeful exploration” abroad. Although students from 40 peer schools are eligible to receive these awards, no other school had more than three recipients this year.
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In an opinion piece published in the International Business Times, Spectator editor Charles Dunst ’18, contended that American sports are indeed politicized.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz recently gave an invited research presentation titled “Confining colloids: From dynamic artificial cells to luminescent nanodiamond sensors” at Union College.
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Published novelist Amy Zhang '18 has been named a Hamilton Senior Fellow, which means she can spend her senior year studying a project she developed. Its title:“ Birds of the Body: a Poetic Exploration of the Performance of Asian-American Femininity.”
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Janice Kang ’20, Kalvin Nash ’18 and Allen Park ’18 presented the results of their summer computational chemistry research at the 16th Annual MERCURY conference.
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