Internships

With the support of many Hamiltonians from across campus, a small cohort of interns spent the summer developing a plan for how the College can use green landscaping as a tool in its sustainability efforts.

Physics major Jacob Sichlau ’23 interned this summer at Varian Medical Systems on the microwave ablation team. The experience solidified his interest in pursuing a master’s degree in mechanical engineering after Hamilton.

Caroline Casey ’23 has spent the summer working as an intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She tells what led her to this position and how it’s helped solidify her career goals.

As an art history major on the pre-med track, Miriam Lerner ’24 believes that college is a time to explore your passions — even if they differ from your career goals. She has taken advantage of the open curriculum and at the same time, her interest in medicine has grown through her biology research at Hamilton. That research led her to a summer internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Niamh McDade-Clay ’25 spent the summer as an intern at the New York State Division of Human Rights in its Rochester regional office. She was supported by Summer Internship Funding Committee and the Diversity and Social Justice Project Fund. Here she tells what drew her to this opportunity and how it fits with her future plans.

Olivia Davis ’23 is an asset management operations summer analyst at Goldman Sachs. As she unravels financial information, she learns the nuances of fixed income insurance and bilateral products. They’re complicated concepts to understand — and even more complicated to manage — but she appreciates the challenge.

Mia Horvath ’25 has always been interested in the arts, but it wasn’t until she arrived at Hamilton that she began considering an art-related career.

Jack Riffle ’12 was teaching in New York City when the reality of the climate crisis hit. It was something he’d recognized for years, but it was no longer something he could ignore.

Surya Gowda ’23 is editing the UNITAR midterm report, writing newsletters, and working on an e-learning platform based around UN sustainability missions as part of her internship at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

At his current internship at Kingsize Soundlabs, a small recording studio in Los Angeles, Julian Arky ’25 is learning how recording in a studio works and the various equipment and processes involved.