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Award-winning author Kamila Shamsie ’94 wrote an op-ed for the British newspaper The Guardian titled “The UK once welcomed refugees - now we detain them indefinitely. It must end.”

The work of Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh and Jackie Brown '04 is featured in Relic Drift, a two-person sculptural ceramics exhibition at Sediment Arts in Richmond, Va. The artists will discuss their work in an artist talk on Zoom on Wednesday, July 8, at 5 p.m.

Fiction, including two novels and two O’Henry Awards, came first; then, late in his career, poetry became more important. Peter Weltner ’64 began writing poetry seriously in 2006 .

WHCL is Hamilton’s student-run radio station. Established in 1941, 88.7 on your FM radio dial provides the community with the opportunity to get their voices, and their music, heard. This summer, student DJs are broadcasting remotely, joined by alumni. Some of these DJs include Dave Bolger ’99, Zachary Franciose ’14, Kaye Kagaoan ’15, Austin Ford ’19, and, all co-hosting together, Tori Fukumitsu ’15, Caroline Grunewald ’15, Eliza Kenney ’15, and George Taliaferro ’15.

When Janis Avery K ’78 explains why she does what she does, she’s succinct and utterly convincing, ever the effective advocate for youth in foster care. Strategic support helps them get what they need to have a better life, she says.

When Josie Collier ’97, P’14 learned that she would be taking over as president of Hamilton’s Alumni Association starting next month, she was hit with a mix of emotions from excitement to anxiety. After all, her work as a longtime volunteer fostering connections among previously disengaged alumni had largely been done quietly behind the scenes. Now everyone would be looking to her to develop partnerships on a larger level.

The Alumni Council has nominated and elected three candidates to serve as members of Hamilton’s Board of Trustees who will serve four-year terms beginning on July 1, 2020.

Whether the audience is middle-schoolers or seminarians, lshaq Pathan ’16 delivers information as antidote and fuel for understanding. He is the Bay Area director of the Islamic Networks Group, a nonprofit organization that pursues peace.

Hamilton has committed to developing collectively a comprehensive plan of action, beginning with three steps identified by President Wippman, to set the College on a path toward healing and positive change.

“The English Galileo and His Vision of Projectile Motion under Air Resistance,” co-authored by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz ’82, was recently published in the International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences.