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Six current students, six Hamilton alumni, and four employees attended the Northeast Regional Association for Experiential Education (AEE) Conference in Becket, Mass., from April 21 to 23. The regional conference draws educators and students who use experiential methodology to engage with students and participants in and out of the classroom.

In a demonstration of intercollegiate collaboration, President David Wippman, Colgate President Brian Casey and Hamilton alumnus and Colgate employee Brian Grady ’00 joined together to win HamTrek’s men’s relay competition with a time of 1:05:45. Casey swam the sprint triathlon’s 21 lengths in the pool, Wippman biked nine miles (two times around the Griffin Road loop) and Grady ran five kilometers around the cross-country course at the Friday, April 28, event.

Olivia Valcarce, who graduated from Hamilton in 2015, is currently an editorial assistant with Scholastic.

James Crafa '12 graduated from Hamilton with a major in economics and minor in history. James lives in Park City, Utah, and works as a manager of corporate sales for Qualtrics.

Cailin Chang '13, who was co-chair of the Campus Activities Board (CAB), says being part of CAB made her marketable because it represented her willingness to be a team player, her strong work ethic, and reliability.

The Career Center’s Student Connect Team led an overnight trip to Boston designed to offer fellow students the opportunity to explore potential careers through site visits, panel discussions and networking with alumni employees at various companies and organizations.

Four young Hamilton alumnae revealed the ins and outs of the publishing industry and shared their personal experiences on working in various publishing roles at the Explorations in Publishing: How to Publish a Novel panel on April 22. The event was organized by the Career Center and the Novelists’ Support Group.

Tori Morrow ’14 works at an executive recruitment firm in Chicago, handling digital marketing and social media. Nights and weekends she’s completing a novel and working for The Nerd Stash, a website that focuses on TV and video game news, comics and movies.

Florence “Flo” Turiaf ’17 has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Removed Yet Within: An Exploration of Identities Within Non-Sovereign Territories.”

International alumni returned to Hamilton to impart a few words of wisdom - and caution – to their successors, who make up roughly 6% of the entire student body. Members of the International Students Association were joined by Sadiq Abubakar ’16, Ujjawal Pradhan ’15, Zak Cherrabi ’12 and Isaac Mboutidem ’15 who Skyped in to participate in the panel.