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As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, one Hamilton College student is getting intimately acquainted with our nation’s deep and storied history. Lily Watts ’26 spent her summer on the National Mall working as a curatorial exhibition development intern at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. By sifting through troves of ancient documents and designing object display layouts, Watts reanimated the past two-and-a-half centuries of American life in preparation for 2026’s celebration.

While Charli XCX may have started the movement, Brat Summer found an unlikely new figurehead in presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Carter Higgins ’26 returns to the scene of Harris’ Brat era to perform a digital and linguistic autopsy, revealing the unstable nature of modern political marketing in the Internet Age.

Scott Kleinklaus ’11, a longtime Formula 1 racing fan, saw an opportunity to turn his passion into a profession.

The creatures great and small of the campus glens find themselves with company this summer through the presence of Professor Pete Guiden’s motley crew of researchers.

From groundbreaking ideas to game-winning goals, the 2024-25 academic year was full of energy and momentum.

Thanks to the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Professor of Government Kira Jumet will spend the coming academic year in Morocco conducting research on combined military exercises and their side events as multinational spaces of soft power and public diplomacy through the African Lion joint military exercises co-organized by the U.S. and Morocco. She will also connect directly with Moroccan students and academics through teaching at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P).

Since the launch of the World Wide Web, Hamiltonians have been at the forefront of digital entrepreneurship, creating and funding a number of tech companies — perhaps you’ve heard of a few.

A graduate of the French Culinary Institute, Elizabeth Palmer Starnes Califano ’11 teaches culinary skills to aspiring cooks of all ages. We asked her to share ideas for how to get kids involved in the kitchen.

Hamilton’s Alumni Council has elected two alumni trustees to serve on the Board of Trustees for four-year terms beginning July 1. They are Alice Davis Tornquist ’86 and Vidal Torres ’00, P’29.