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Retired Navy Adm. Michelle J. Howard will deliver Hamilton’s 2023 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 21, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Howard chaired the 2020-22 Congressional Naming Commission that identified and made recommendations to remove, rename, or modify Department of Defense assets that commemorated the Confederacy or those who voluntarily served it.

As professor and co-chair in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, Rebecca Heald ’85 works to empower basic research and pave the way for those underrepresented in scientific fields.

The Common Ground series returned to Hamilton on February 22 with panelists discussing the question, "Who should set the rules regarding privacy and data? "

Expanding knowledge of our universe has led to academic and professional recognition for Peter Schloerb ’73 for his work on the advancement of powerful millimeter-wave telescopes.

Nine students spent part of their winter break teaming up with Maxwell Akuamoah-Boateng ’09 on a community service project in Philadelphia. Akuamoah-Boateng, who serves as the city’s director of operations for community schools, organized the Alternate Break (AXB) trip that focused on youth engagement/urban service.

Melissa Williams’ ’89 path to Sierra Club and a career in environmentalism has had a few twists and turns, almost like the trip down a river — the French Broad River to be exact.

One of Hamilton College’s most generous benefactors and a leading businessman and philanthropist in the Utica community has died. F. Eugene Romano, a Utica native and a 1949 Hamilton graduate, passed away on Saturday, Jan.7. He was 94.

Reaching for the sky, Tracey Stroock McFarland ’90 recently floated a turn as an actress to lead producer with The Kite Runner on Broadway. The play, an adaptation of the bestselling 2003 novel about atonement for a childhood betrayal between friends in Afghanistan, played a limited run on the Great White Way last summer.

College videographer Zack Stanek takes a look back at 2022 at Hamilton.

When he looks to the sky it’s not a plane or Superman in his sights for ornithologist Craig Caldwell ’73, who resumed pandemic-restricted travel in 2022 in search of birds — Guatemala in April, a fourth trip to Brazil in June, and Australia in October.