Outcomes

Over the past year, Hamilton students, faculty, staff, and alumni came together to think about the future, tackle challenges, and celebrate each other. From a historic NCAA title to research, creative work, and partnerships that reached across the Mohawk Valley and around the world, these stories capture some of the moments that defined the 2025-26 academic year.

For Mia Wrisley ’26 finding the right career path meant finding a way to bring together her many interests. After graduation, with a computer science and world politics double concentration, she joined the Home Depot’s inaugural associate product management program in a role she says brings together both the technical and interpersonal skills she developed during at Hamilton.

Edo Spadaccini ’26, an economics and Hispanic studies major from Lexington, Mass., and a Hamilton baseball pitcher, is taking his passion for sports and his own journey back from two injuries as motivation to pursue an master’s degree in strength and conditioning at Springfield College this fall. This summer, he’s interning with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

ll students at Hamilton complete a senior project, a capstone experience in which they integrate, extend, critique, and apply knowledge gained during their four years on College Hill. The topics vary as much as the students who pursue them — and so do the lessons learned. See the list of senior projects for 2026.

Hamilton College happens to be less than 20 minutes from Waterville, N.Y., where Beau Sinardo ’26 attended high school, but convenience was not the primary appeal for him. In comparison to Sinardo’s other in-state choices, “It felt more like home here [at Hamilton],” he said.

For Jun Reiss ’26, his experience at Hamilton and his goals for life beyond can be described by three words: service, community, and belonging. The sociology major from Brooklyn, N.Y., was the recipient of Hamilton’s prestigious James Soper Merrill Prize for his personification of the College’s ideals.

Madison Harland ’26 doesn’t see perfection as a goal. “You learn a lot from failure, from not being perfect,” she said. “If I had taken classes just to get perfect grades, my learning experience would’ve been entirely different.”

Hamilton’s Class of 2026 has been celebrated, and now its grads are setting off to explore what’s next. They’re launching careers, starting grad school, and pursuing internships to further explore interests they discovered on the Hill. We asked a few recent graduates to tell us about who influenced them, memorable moments, and proudest accomplishments.

In his time at Hamilton, Aubrey Campbell ’26 left no stage unconquered, whether it’s the Barrett and Romano performance spaces for productions with the Theatre Department or Wellin Hall and the Chapel for concerts with the Music Department. With Hamilton graduation now behind him, he looks toward pursuing a master’s of music in voice at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

Emily Pogozelski ’26, Analisa Lona ’26, and Elijah “Eli” King-Bond ’26 will be taking what they’ve learned at Hamilton to Teach for America and AmeriCorps, respectively.