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A July 25 article in The Atlantic titled How Much More Merit Do You Need Than Saving American Lives? detailed the efforts of alumnus Matt Zeller’04 and his former U.S. Army translator Janis Shinwari, to help other former translators and their families, Afghan and Iraqi citizens, obtain special immigrant visas and resettle in the United States.

Stephana (Hayoung) Lim '21 never expected to be doing anything related to art in college. When she first came to Hamilton, she intended to major in physics, but soon switched over to computer science after taking a class with Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Perkins.

Doran Larson, the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, recently published a review of Scandinavian Penal History, Culture And Prison Practice.

For Ashley Ramcharan ’20, what began as a late night conversation with friends about being a racial minority on campus turned into a 10-week long research project.

XRF Senior Laboratory Technician Rick Conrey and XRF Laboratory Technician Laureen Wagoner recently attended the 10th International Conference on the Analysis of Geological and Environmental Materials.

A grant that would give him an entire summer to research his own project about Japan, working one-on-one with a professor? That sounded good to first-year student Shavell Jones ’21, so he went for it.

Here’s a lesson Konstantin Tokarr has learned thus far from doing his summer research on low-income housing development in Greater New York City suburbia: Getting the information you need can be difficult. But he’s not complaining.

Joining the ongoing examination and analysis of human-caused environmental changes in the Adirondacks, a group of Hamilton researchers spent four days taking sediment cores from four Adirondack lakes.

Sarah Kane ‘19 spent the spring semester in Bristol, England, in a behavioral biology program studying animal welfare and the laws that surround wild animals, and clinical animal behavior focusing on cats and dogs. Kane also wrote a dissertation with Dr. Nicola Rooney on the accuracy, or specificity and sensitivity of diabetic alert dogs.

It’s summer, and the stream of fervent energy that fuels life on the Hill for most of the year has slowed to a trickle. Much of campus lies dormant now: there is no smell of bacon wafting out of Commons or McEwen in the early morning, and times like 11:15 or 2:30 no longer draw hordes of backpack-wearing students walking from one class to another on Martin’s Way. In the back corner of campus, however, there is a familiar hum of activity rattling the lethargy of hot summer afternoons and evenings.