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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.
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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.
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For her summer research fellowship, literature major Sabrina Boutselis ’19 is looking at inequities in teaching preschool reading.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Janet Halley, the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will present a lecture titled “Rethinking Campus Sexual Assault: Taking Stock of Obama-Era Reforms” on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ.
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