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The Right Honourable David Cameron, former Prime Minster of the United Kingdom (2010-2016), participated in a question-and-answer session with Hamilton College President David Wippman on Oct. 15 for the 2018 Sacerdote Great Names series.
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This semester, the museum will host nearly 40 class sessions from 18 different courses that have incorporated Jeffrey Gibson’s work into their curriculum.
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Elise LePage ’18 earned national recognition as a finalist for the American Physical Society’s 2018 LeRoy Apker Award. The award recognizes undergraduate students for outstanding achievements in physics.
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More than 200 posters plus souvenir pins, banners, toys, even cigarettes, comprise Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca’s unparalleled collection of Soviet-era propaganda recently donated to the Burke Library Special Collections.
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When Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph ’81 first pitched the idea that would one day become the worldwide streaming service to his wife, she told him: “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”
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This September 2018 marks Google’s 20th anniversary. Chris LaRosa ’03, now a senior product manager at Google, joined the company as an intern on the technical writing team in 2007. To make the company’s milestone birthday, we asked him to share a little about his path to Google and his work at the company.
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On Sept. 21 to 23 Hamilton students flooded the Adirondack Park, hungry for the High Peaks. The Outing Club sent out 20 trips to conquer the 46 peaks above 4,000 feet in the Park as marked by the original surveying. The tradition started in 1995 and every year since, Hamilton students have been attempting this feat. This year the club managed to get a student on 40 of the 46 Peaks.
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Hockey’s Stanley Cup made an appearance at Sage Rink on Sept. 23 as part of Clinton’s Hockeyville celebration. Clinton, N.Y., winner of the Kraft Hockeyville USA contest, will host a preseason game between the Buffalo Sabres and Columbus Blue Jackets on Sept. 25 at the Clinton area.
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Nicole Taylor ’19 has been helping Hamilton students vote since her first year on campus. Taylor explained, “I would be talking to my new friends about politics and I’d say, ‘Well, you know, the only way you can really voice your opinion at this stage in your life is to vote. Are you registered to vote?’ and they’d be seniors and they’d say, ‘No.’” This led her to teach some of her peers about the registration process and ultimately helped foster her passion for campus voter engagement.
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The Right Honourable David Cameron, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010-2016), will be Hamilton College’s next Sacerdote Great Names speaker on Monday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. The program is free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Tickets are available through the college’s website.
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