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To set foot in India’s Vishnupada temple, the most important site in the sacred city of Gaya, is to absorb a sense of place and purpose. With its niches, shrines, and statues, the temple is rich with information, and every object tells a story about Gaya’s complex history. This is why Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar wants students in his Dying, Death, and Afterlife course to experience Vishnupada inside and out.

At first, you hear just a voice. The screen is black, then fills with the pink-purple-blue motion of an otherworldly night sky. From the bottom of the screen, a solitary figure in a hoodie rises, back to the camera, to speak the next line of his spoken-word poem. It’s Sacharja Cunningham ’19.

The Hamilton of 1837 was a staid, Presbyterian institution. Yet that year, a decade after the liberation of the last slaves in New York State, 58 Hamilton students — more than 60 percent of the student body — signed and sent to Congress a strongly worded petition to ban slavery in the United States. Their action would anger state legislators, jeopardize College funding, and trigger a crackdown on student abolitionists. The signers were members of the Hamilton Anti-Slavery Society, an affiliate of William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society.

She gets a lot of questions about her majors — neuroscience and dance — because they seem divergent, but in a classroom discussion with other dance students Katie McMorrow ’20 discovered kindred academic spirits.

Kayla Self ’21, a member of the women’s volleyball team, recently attended the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2019 convention in Orlando, Fla. The NCAA is a member-led organization dedicated to the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes. Hamilton is a member of the NCAA’s Division III.

More than 85 students got the chance to explore possible careers when they were matched with alumni and parents for a day of job shadowing during the recent winter break.

An article about the nesting ecology of tropical birds, co-authored by Supervisor of Introductory Laboratories and Lecturer in Environmental Studies Jason Townsend, was recently published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

Katherine H. Terrell, associate professor of literature and creative writing, published an edition and translation of the Middle English romance of Richard Coeur de Lion with Broadview Press.

The receipt of 8,338 applications, roughly one-third more than last year’s record total of 6,240, provided both an exhilarating and challenging start to the year for the Hamilton admission team.