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Combine the pressure of midterms with the added stress of COVID-19, and life for students on College Hill can be more difficult than normal. That’s what motivated more than 1,700 alumni, parents, and friends to Send Some Love.
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Elizabeth McCormack, a trustee on College Hill for 45 years, was Kirkland and Hamilton’s E.F. Hutton. She died on Dec. 4, 2020, one month after learning she would receive the Bell Ringer Award, the Alumni Association’s highest honor.
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Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, has recently presented several virtual talks on a range of topics from social science research methods to his book How College Works, co-authored with Chris Takacs ’05.
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As a doctoral student whose research agenda was hobbled by the pandemic, the award was especially sweet: Nejla Asimovic ’16 recently received a prestigious grant from the American Political Science Association to expand the scope of her dissertation.
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Articles co-authored by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Colin Quinn were recently published in a special issue of the journal Bioarchaeology International. He also co-edited the issue with Jess Beck of Vassar College.
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Malaysian writer Preeta Samarasan ’98 is juggling projects of varied scope and heft, but her homeland is at the heart of them all.
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To many Hamilton students, the Days-Massolo Center may feel as familiar as the campus furniture. But 10 years ago, the Center didn’t even exist — it was in part through the efforts of the Social Justice Initiative (SJI) that the DMC opened its doors in 2011.
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Peter Kimball ’03, a self-identified computer geek with one master’s degree in security informatics and another in computer science, was working at his brother-in-law’s algorithmic equities trading firm when Kimball’s five-year-old nephew was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
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When the adapted 2020-21 academic calendar was released, I was both excited and wary about the two-month break between the fall and spring semesters. I worried that two months without classes or work — in addition to social distancing and COVID-19 lockdowns — was going to be a long period of enforced downtime. So when I read the Career Center email describing the new SnapShot virtual shadowing program, I knew that I had found the perfect solution.
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As a psychoanalyst working with patients or as a painter facing a canvas — she’s practiced both careers for decades — Kate Emlen K’72 P’14, traces her expansive way of thinking back to her Kirkland College experience.
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