L'artiste saphique et sa muse, 2024, an oil on linen painting by Professor of Art Katharine Kuharic, is on display in Art Basel Paris through Oct. 26.

Professor of History Ty Seidule has spoken to national and local media outlets about issues of historical misrepresentations and racial discrimination throughout the year. He has challenged many audiences to consider our nation’s values as represented by whom, as a country, we honor.

Professor of Religious Studies S.B. Rodríguez-Plate recently presented an invited keynote lecture titled “Carnal Cinema” at Amsterdam’s Vrije University.

Fresh off his second term in the White House as U.S. secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack ’72 has joined the World Food Prize Foundation as CEO. The organization is devoted to driving transformative change in food security and sustainable agriculture.

Ian N. Mills, visiting professor of classics and religious studies, has been awarded the DeGruyter Prize for Biblical Studies and Reception History for his article “Canonizing Laodiceans: Paratextual Negotiations of Authority and Authenticity in the Latin Bible.”

“Generalized Quandle Polynomials and Their Applications to Stuquandles, Stuck Links, and RNA Folding,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Mathematics José Ceniceros, Ekaterina Bondarenko ’25, and colleagues at the University of South Florida (USF), was recently published in Open Mathematics.

Director of Opportunity Programs Aaron Ray recently received the Arthur O. Eve Human Relations Award from the Higher Education Opportunity Program Professional Organization.

The Chautauqua Institute emphasizes holistic lifelong learning in all disciplines, from politics and history to art and spirituality. This summer, Susie Anderson ’27 became part of that history as a staff writer for The Chautauquan Daily, shining a light on the happenings of its 2025 season.

Colleen Hallagan Preuninger ’06 has returned to College Hill for her first semester as Hamilton’s inaugural dean of spiritual and religious life. We asked her to share some initial thoughts about her new role and what she’s heard already from students. (Full interview to appear in the Winter edition of Hamilton Magazine.)

Associate Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz recently presented “Good Vibes: How to Take Apart a Resonator System Without Dismantling It” for the physics colloquium at Smith College.