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Bridget Lavin ’18's summer research stretches from the federal statute that covers sexual violence at schools to the stories of survivors of that violence.

After taking The American Founding, a history course taught by Douglas Ambrose and Robert Martin, Kyung Noh ’18 began to examine more closely the differences between human and civil rights.

Her personal history, worldview and some classroom inspiration shaped Kaygon Finakin ’19’s summer research project — drilling down into the underdevelopment of several Caribbean countries.

For her summer research fellowship, literature major Sabrina Boutselis ’19 is looking at inequities in teaching preschool reading.

Sarah Hogoboom ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Vietnam. A world politics major, she studied in Nepal, Jordan and Chile through the School for International Training Honors Program in Human Rights in 2016.

On any given day throughout the region, Hamilton students can be seen tutoring secondary school students, providing clean-up crews for elderly homeowners, and helping local agencies with everything from preparing grants to painting buildings. In 2016, students spent 25,643 hours volunteering.

Afghan combat veteran Matt Zeller ’04 and Janis Shinwari, a former Afghan interpreter, will present a lecture, “No One Left Behind: A Bond Forged in Combat,” on Monday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.

How to be resilient during a period of major change was among timely lessons learned by 20 students in Hamilton’s Levitt Leadership Institute during their visit to Washington, D.C., during spring break.

Civil rights activist Diane Nash spoke to the Hamilton community about her experience as a civil rights leader in the South, the nature and strength of nonviolent protest, and the current political sphere in a lecture on Feb. 27. She broadly covered recollections of fear, violence, cooperation, and success during her early days of activism and leadership.

Al Tillery, a professor of political science at Northwestern University spoke at Hamilton about “The Legacy of Barack Obama” in a lecture on Feb. 6.