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Investigative reporters Kathleen “Kat” McGrory ’05 and Neil Bedi of the Tampa Bay Times were honored with a Pulitzer Prize in the Local Reporting category for a series on a powerful sheriff whose secretive operations harassed Pasco County, Fla., residents.

David Solomon ’84, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, has been unanimously elected to serve as chair of the Hamilton College Board of Trustees, effective July 1.

Co-managers Larry Bender and Sarah Goldstein remember traveling into town for ice every morning and keeping extra supplies in their car during the first days of Café Opus. Some 26 years later, the much beloved coffeehouse has grown — its original location below McEwen Dining Hall expanded and Opus 2 snug within the Taylor Science Center atrium since 2005 — and the café has developed a cult following among students, alumni, faculty, and staff alike.

Civil rights activist and math literacy pioneer Robert Moses ’56 was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in April.

Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen read tributes to recipients of this year’s teaching awards at the May 19 faculty meeting. Winners were announced at Class and Charter Day on May 11.

Roger Danilek ’21 arrived on the Hill knowing he wanted to pursue either engineering or physics. Then, he took a computer science class and that changed everything.

Jeremy Mathurin ’16 graduated from Hamilton and into a job at the formidable consulting firm Deloitte.,He noted on his resume that he'd taken an advanced statistical modeling course at Hamilton that focused largely on “R,” a programming language for big data.

Following the death of George Floyd, people worldwide gathered to protest racial injustice. Sakhile Matlhare ’10 was one of them. In Germany, she is co-founder of an art gallery that addresses issues of inequality, racism, and power imbalances.

Lorna Lightfoot-Ware ’88 introduces this feature — with illustration by Kirubel Tesfaye ’21 and a poem by Jahmali Matthews ’22 — in which Black alumni and students reflect on how Floyd's death has affected race relations in America.

As he rises through the ranks in real estate property management, Joshua Bruff ’05 is often reminded that he is Black. His anecdotes prompt the question: What would you do in the same scenarios?