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Suzanne Keen, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, announced the appointment of new faculty for the 2018-19 academic year, including six tenure-track appointments.

Summer is here, and that can only mean one thing: camp. But this summer camp has nothing to do with lanyards or kayaking—it’s about code. This summer, Conor Courtney ’20 is attending Horizons School of Technology in San Francisco, Calif.

Stephana (Hayoung) Lim '21 never expected to be doing anything related to art in college. When she first came to Hamilton, she intended to major in physics, but soon switched over to computer science after taking a class with Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Perkins.

The serendipitous discovery of a passion for computer science has opened many doors for Eseosa Asiruwa ’18, who will head to Adobe to become a software engineer in tools after graduation. “I’ll be helping to build the software that releases new software and updates to the digital imaging operations Adobe has. Photoshop and Illustrator, work like that,” she explained.

In announcing the expansion of its applied research network “to explore the most effective and impactful use cases in virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D printing,” HP Inc, named Hamilton College among a group of “elite colleges and universities” as a participant in the program.

Hamilton’s two-year-old Coding Team, whose members represent a range of majors and interests, built apps and relationships at its first Hackathon, held at Boston University.

Hamilton students rubbed elbows with experts and immersed themselves in cutting-edge developments during the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer Conference.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Perkins recently published a paper on “The length distribution for burn-off chip-firing games on complete graphs" in the Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.

As a computer science major, Emily Buff ’19 is keenly aware of the intense sexism many women working in the technology industry face. This summer, she is doing her part to combat this inequality by working as a teacher’s assistant for Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology.

At Hamilton Minh To ’19 has devoured opportunities to further her passion for computer science. Now she is immersed in an intensive, full-stack web and mobile application development program at Horizons School of Technology.