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One of the first African American students to earn a philosophy degree at Hamilton, Alfred Prettyman ’56 became a guiding figure in African American philosophy.
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The respiratory disease center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston seems to be a meeting point for Hamilton alumni, as Deb Gakpo ’19 is the third alumna to take a job there.
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Women's track & field athlete Cat Berry '19 (Mansfield, Ohio/Western Reserve Academy) and men's basketball swingman Peter Hoffmann '19 (Putnam Valley, N.Y./Haldane HS) received the 2019 Jack B. Riffle Awards at Hamilton College's senior varsity athlete awards celebration on Tuesday, May 21.
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While finishing his master’s degree in 1996, Samuel Werberg ’94 says that it was then when he realized how big the world was and how little he’d seen of it. After three years volunteering for the Peace Corps, he briefly worked in the private sector before deciding he was meant to be abroad. He joined the U.S. State Department as a diplomat in 2004 and has been there ever since.
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Susan MacTavish Best ’95 has found her niche in cultivating connections and spreading ideas. After more than two decades working in Silicon Valley public relations, this year she founded Posthoc, which she describes as a “petri dish for ideas and thought-leaders.”
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As director-general of Sharjah Museums Authority, Manal Ataya ’01 manages a diverse range of museums in her native United Arab Emirates. France recently awarded Ataya its Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, one of the country’s highest awards for cultural contributions.
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On a family vacation to Nova Scotia in 1963, Jim Clough ’67 discovered bagpiping. The music moved his brother, and eventually him, when Clough heard his brother practicing at home. Two years later, Clough became a piper too, and he’s been cultivating and perfecting the art for nearly 53 years.
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Like most Haudenosaunee, Andrew Lee ’94 learned from an early age that when setting a course of action, one must consider the wisdom of seven generations who came before and the consequences that decisions will have on seven generations ahead. Lee takes that advice to heart as chairman of the board of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
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During a panel discussion, students heard from three alumni working in the field of policy and political research. Panelists included Ann Dubin ’06, a freelance political researcher and consultant, Marc Pitarresi ’10, a freelance political and communications consultant and researcher, and Cristina Garafola ’11, a research associate at RAND Corp. specializing in Chinese foreign policy.
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Willa Mihalyi-Koch ’19 and Hannah Zucker '15 have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. This is a highly competitive, prestigious, nationally recognized fellowship that is awarded to just under 2000 students in the natural and social sciences and engineering.