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Enzo Battaglia ’26 entered Columbia Law School this fall through the highly selective Accelerated Interdisciplinary Legal Education (AILE) program, which permits students to earn both a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton and a juris doctor degree from Columbia after three years of study at each institution.

Professor of Art Robert Knight and Michael Shapiro ’71, director emeritus of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, first taught From Collecting to Curating five years ago, but it has returned this year with a twist. The course is divided into three parts with one new goal: to curate an exhibition at the Munson in Utica, N.Y.

Organic Chemistry is a course with a reputation, striking fear in the hearts of pre-med, biology, and chemistry students due to its notorious difficulty. However, Associate Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck is bringing a little light into the dark trenches of “Orgo” through a most unlikely medium — song lyric parodies in assignment emails.

Organizing events ranging from on-campus scavenger hunts and merch drops, to excursions off-campus to apple orchards and Syracuse’s Destiny USA mall, the First-Year Experience (FYE) student leaders are experts in making all the “new” of college life exciting. FYE leaders support first-year students through the difficulties of transitioning to college by providing ample opportunities for socializing, destressing, and recharging. We asked Dana Blatte ’26, a FYE leader since fall 2024, to share her experience with the program.

As November wraps up, we take a look back at the Continentals’ fall seasons, highlighted by the field hockey team's advancing to the second round of the NCAA Division III championship. Here’s a look at some of photographer Josh McKee’s favorite action shots from the fall. For more on the Continentals’ fall season, visit the Athletics site.

In celebration of National First-Gen Student Week, we are recognizing our many students who identify as “first-generation” — the first in their families to complete or pursue a bachelor’s degree. Alejandro Sosa Hernández ’26 recently interviewed several of our first-gens to get their thoughts on being college trailblazers.

Student research and publications are among achievements in the fall 2025 semester.

Communications and Marketing office student writer Dehler Ingham ’27 is a literature and government concentrator, but he has found plenty of reasons to visit and enjoy the Wellin Museum. Here are five of them.

Alejandro Sosa Hernández ’26, a creative writing and Japanese double major who discovered an interest in theatre while at Hamilton, was recently called upon to write something he never expected. Read about his experience here.

Thirty-three trips into the wilderness, 68 student leaders, 287 student participants. Plus dozens of canoes, tents, sleeping bags, rain gear, pounds of cheese, and other essentials. The planning that goes into Hamilton’s Adirondack Adventure (AA) orientation program is extensive, and the process has run like a proverbial well-oiled machine for the past four decades thanks in large part to Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings, who came on board in 1997 to expand the program from a modest six trips.