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When part of a 25-year-old press at Hamilton’s Print Shop unexpectedly broke down, the machine quickly became inoperable. Townsend Industries, the manufacturer of this T-51 printer, closed down in mid-2010, making it nearly impossible to find replacement parts for the press. Thanks to help from LITS and a student though, the machine is now back in service.

Judy Zhou ’19 and her virtual reality project that is focused on empathy is one illustration of how digital technology is integrated across campus, a key priority of the College's Because Hamilton campaign.

David Solomon '84 and Thomas Tull '92 gave a Hamilton audience a glimpse of their first-hand insights into the ways new technologies have revolutionized business and finance and what might come next.

It was a chance to spend quality time on campus with an ultra-successful Hamilton graduate, and computer science major Grace Woolson ’21 took a front-and-center seat for a classroom question-and-answer session with Thomas Tull ’92, who founded and led Legendary Entertainment.

Hamilton has announced an additional participant for the technology and business discussion featuring the chairmen and CEOs of Goldman Sachs and Tulco on Tuesday, March 12.

Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon ’84 and Thomas Tull ’92, chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based investment-holding company Tulco, will discuss how emerging technologies are revolutionizing today’s businesses in a special program at Hamilton College.

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.

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.

Achievement. Ambition. American Dream. Capitalism. Free Competition. Free Enterprise. Maybe the most challenging part of the research for Andrew Wei ’20 was constructing the dictionary of terms he would use to mine Google News data. But on the trail of research, Wei is seemingly unstoppable. He created a dictionary of not the typical one or two search terms but 38. That brought him some 30,000 data sets with which to work.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Manuel Barrantes brings a new course to the Hill and examines the morality of technology.