News at Hamilton
Winning a NESCAC championship requires a bit of travel, and climate action requires a bit of cooperation. Carson Hall ’26 and Ben Zimmerman ’26 understand this, and are doing something about it. On a Saturday in early September, the men’s hockey team planted over 50 trees in Utica. The initiative seeks to offset the emissions of athletics travel.
Hamilton Creator, Original Star Lin-Manuel Miranda is Next Great Names Guest
Hamilton College is thrilled to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hamilton by welcoming Lin-Manuel Miranda as the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series. The composer, creator, and star of the Tony Award-winning musical will give a talk on Monday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
Adirondack Adventure Alumni: Bringing that ‘Big Andrew Energy’
Thirty-three trips into the wilderness, 68 student leaders, 287 student participants. The planning that goes into Hamilton’s Adirondack Adventure (AA) orientation program is extensive, and the process has run like a proverbial well-oiled machine for the past four decades thanks in large part to Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings, who came on board in 1997 to expand the program from a modest six trips.
Summer Researchers Delve Into Projects That Inspire Them
Through Emerson Foundation Grants and Levitt Summer Research Fellowships, Hamilton students forge their own research paths, from studying environmental justice and exploring the intersections of art and mathematics in AI, to promoting better understanding of pediatric cancer patients’ experiences. Here are what three summer grantees said about the inspiration and significance of their projects.
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Winning a NESCAC championship requires a bit of travel, and climate action requires a bit of cooperation. Carson Hall ’26 and Ben Zimmerman ’26 understand this, and are doing something about it. On a Saturday in early September, the men’s hockey team planted over 50 trees in Utica. The initiative seeks to offset the emissions of athletics travel.
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Thirty-three trips into the wilderness, 68 student leaders, 287 student participants. Plus dozens of canoes, tents, sleeping bags, rain gear, pounds of cheese, and other essentials. The planning that goes into Hamilton’s Adirondack Adventure (AA) orientation program is extensive, and the process has run like a proverbial well-oiled machine for the past four decades thanks in large part to Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings, who came on board in 1997 to expand the program from a modest six trips.
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Through Emerson Foundation Grants and Levitt Summer Research Fellowships, Hamilton students forge their own research paths, from studying environmental justice and exploring the intersections of art and mathematics in AI, to promoting better understanding of pediatric cancer patients’ experiences. Here are what three summer grantees said about the inspiration and significance of their projects.
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In 2020, when the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War forced Nana Hayrumyan ’27 and her family to flee to Armenia from their home in the Republic of Artsakh, her schooling was put on hold. But Hayrumyan never gave up her belief in the value of education.
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The Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy (HCSPiP), founded in 2018, has been a success from the beginning. First featured in an article in the American Philosophical Association Studies in Teaching in Philosophy, this year the Chronicle of Higher Education spotlighted the program in July.
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