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The college semester Beth Merrill ’94 spent in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, would shape her life’s work — a nonprofit that sows literacy.
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She picked Hamilton partly because she loved to write, but Helen Santoro ’15 majored in neuroscience and figured she would eventually earn a doctorate in that subject. She was well on her way when she flipped her career — now she's a medical journalist.
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As the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center marks its 40th anniversary, it is simultaneously celebrating the continued generosity of the Levitt family in support of the center’s public service-focused endeavors. The Winston Foundation and the Levitt family have committed to a significant gift to establish the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center Fund, which will provide students with enhanced immersive public policy experiences, direct access to policy innovators, additional summer research fellowships, new public service internships, and an annual post-graduate fellowship.
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Torrence Moore ’92 is approaching his 30th year on the board of LINK Scholars Unlimited, a Chicago nonprofit that helps promising Black high school students gain access to college. Moore was once one of those students, and through LINK he met the man who would become his mentor and introduce him to Hamilton — Art Massolo ’64.
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Sarah Damaske ’99 has long been interested in understanding and ameliorating class and race inequalities. Her research culminated in the book , "The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America."
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John Brisotti ’73 played guitar at Hamilton and had a mandolin that he picked up on occasion. After College he kept learning, mostly by ear, before taking lessons with Mike Compton, perhaps the foremost Bill Monroe-style mandolinist today.
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After roughly four years of work, filmmakers Loch Phillipps ’83 and Adam Bedient ’04 will screen their documentary for what may be the most discerning audience they’ll ever face — the hometown crowd at the Stanley Theater in Utica.
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Part computer scientist, part cognitive scientist, Tom Williams ’11 uses insights from cognitive psychology to design and enable language-based interaction between humans and robots.
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An article about student-graduate committee matching and job market outcomes, co-authored by Stephen Wu, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, and Qi Ge ’06, appears in the October issue of Southern Economic Journal.
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As someone who assesses his work by the good it achieves, school social worker Chris Walsh ’80 had more successes than he will ever know; he’s also had plenty of affirmation.
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