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In an email to the Hamilton community on Oct. 15, Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen announced the passing of Gregory Pierce, Professor of Psychology emeritus.

Sitting in the boardroom of The Whitney Museum of American Art, overlooking the West Side Highway and the Hudson River, are the students of Art History 310 and Scott Rothkopf, chief curator of The Whitney.

Determined to change the education system for low-income students and students of color, Osvaldo Adames ’15 took a job teaching eighth-grade math at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice — his alma mater. There, he quietly nurtured a goal: to have his students take the state Algebra 1 exam in eighth-grade rather than ninth, which was typical at the school.

Near the back of the 1979 hamilton yearbook, 14 pages titled “Campus Life” feature a collection of black-and-white photos without captions, leaving it to readers to posit the who, what, why: three laughing women in silly hats, a guy at a pottery wheel, a student bent over a book at a library table, etc. The story behind a photo on page 143 belongs to David Balog ’79. He alluded to it when he was interviewed for a new and developing oral history archive of LGBTQ Hamilton alumni.

A business on the rocks isn’t always a bad thing. “I love seeing our cocktails in consumers’ hands — the Aperol Spritz (orange) and Negroni (red) are very distinctive and very visible,” says Bob Kunze-Concewitz ’88, CEO of the Campari Group.

A paper co-authored by Derek Jones and Partick Sen ’15 was recently published in the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership.

In a recent guest post on Daily Nous, a news website for and about the philosophy profession, Mercy Corredor ’15 wrote about the value of apprenticeships for graduate students planning to teach.

Joe Gilbert ’87, Hamilton’s first football player to earn first-team All-America honors, is the new offensive line coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He started the job in January, the latest move in a coaching career that has taken him back and forth between colleges and the NFL. 

Economics major Christian Hansson ’19, who minored in Africana studies, recently began work at Goldman Sachs. Here he tells how he got there.