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National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. June’s news topics included varied subjects from Ukraine and the economy to summer reading and admissions essays.

Major national and international media outlets and leading publications turned to Hamilton College faculty, staff, and alumni for their expertise and thought leadership on a broad range of topics during the 2023-2024 academic year.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. May’s news topics included varied subjects from twin co-valedictorians to communism to the consumer price index.

Students kept busy as they wrapped up the fall semester and over winter break. Read about what some of them did.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. December’s news topics included Moms for Liberty, spirituality, and the war in Ukraine, among others.

Some 159 students were honored with academic prizes and scholarships, and faculty were recognized for receiving teaching awards and dean’s scholarly achievement prizes, at Hamilton’s annual Class & Charter Day convocation on May 9. Earning special recognition were Ryan Smolarsky ’23, who received the James Soper Merrill Prize, and Eleanor “Ellie” Sangree ’24, who was awarded the Fillius Drown Scholarship.

“Robust training and oversight [are] key,” said Hamilton Counseling Center Director David Walden as he described the College’s peer counselor program in a recent Wall Street Journal article. “With Therapists in Short Supply, College Students Counsel Each Other,” published on Feb. 12, provided an in-depth look into how Hamilton’s peer counselor program works, how peer counselors are able to “provide a supportive ear and not actual therapy [and] relieve some of the demand on the licensed therapists.”

February’s news highlights ranged from features on career connections and peer-counseling to immersive education and academic freedom.

Six Hamilton students recently shared their work at Parilia, an undergraduate classics conference in honor of the founding of Rome, traditionally dated to April 21, 753 BCE.

Hamilton students often have opportunities to interact with experts in professional settings. Over Spring Break, I joined several other aspiring chemists at the American Chemical Society convention in San Diego.