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Pat Dunn ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Malaysia. He is an environmental studies and creative writing major at Hamilton.
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Laura Gilson ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia. A Dean’s List student, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in February. Gilson is an English literature major and art history minor at Hamilton.
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Caitlin Livsey, a senior geosciences major, presented a poster at the 47th Geological Society of America, Northeast Section meeting held March 18-20 in Hartford, Conn.
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Students from the Hamilton Mathletics team won first place in the annual Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and Saint Lawrence University. To determine the winner, each team in the competition added their top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam.
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Nicholas Green, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Nepal. A Dean’s List student, he is a philosophy major and geosciences minor at Hamilton.
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Three Hamilton students were among 50 recipients of competitive scholarships to the 2012 New York State Summer Writers Institute. Martin Cain ’13, Joseph Michaels ’14 and Sarah Sgro ’14 were chosen from among more than 375 applicants to the prestigious institute that will take place in July at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Students were nominated by creative writing faculty at their institutions; applicants included graduate writers in MFA and Ph.D. programs.
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Galia Slayen ’13, a Chinese and government major, has been accepted as a delegate to Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford University (FACES). FACES is an exchange program that sends 20 American and 20 Chinese students to Stanford University and then to China to promote cross-cultural exchange. Forty delegates were chosen from among 316 applicants.
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Hillary “Kip” Langat ’13 has been awarded a Davis Peace Project Fellowship program grant of $10,000. Through his project titled “Pulling Villages out of Poverty with a Community Tractor in Kenya,” Langat will help to empower people in three Kenyan villages by purchasing a community farming tractor and training them in farming techniques in an effort to break the cycle of poverty.
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Spencer Gulbronson, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2012-13. Her project, titled “The Universal Language: Exploring Creative Approaches to Math Education,” was among 40 national winners of the Fellowships.
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Victoria (Tori) Morrow ’14 has been awarded a summer fellowship at the University of Michigan to do work in classics and medieval studies through the university’s Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP). The SROP brings talented underrepresented students to Ann Arbor to work with faculty mentors on research projects during two months in the summer. Morrow is a classics major.
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