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Hamilton’s 43 new faculty members for the 2025-26 academic year include eight tenure-track faculty, 30 visiting professors and lecturers, and five teaching fellows.

Jampel Payldon ’27 hails from the Kingdom of Bhutan, a small nation nestled in the Himalayas. This summer, Payldon had the opportunity to represent her country on the world stage as an intern at the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations.

With 26 locations needing a different number of food pallets each day — and 10 trucks each with their own capacity limits — designing an efficient route had been an arduous task for the Food Bank of Central New York (FBCNY). That’s where Hughes “Hugh” Williams ’26 came in. This summer he created an algorithm that can determine each day’s optimal route within seconds.

When someone learns that I’m a film history professor, the question, “What’s your favorite film?” is rarely long in coming.

Cars, SUVs, minivans, and airport shuttles filled with new students and families were greeted by raucous singing and cheering Orientation leaders and President Steven Tepper in his full Alexander Hamilton costume. The Class of 2029 and transfer students arrived on College Hill on Aug. 19 to begin Orientation, embark on adventure trips, and matriculate into Hamilton.

The College will receive a $464,145 grant from the New York State Education Department over the course of five years that will support up to 37 students annually who are interested in STEM or health-related professions.

In an email to the Hamilton community on Aug. 21, Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo announced the passing of Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics and Statistics emerita Debra Boutin on Aug. 20.

We reconnected with some members of the Class of ’25 to ask a different question: What are you taking away from Hamilton?

Allie Ennis ’25 may have been singled out by the Class of 2025 as its student Commencement speaker, but when she stepped up to the podium, her remarks were all about community.

Parks, playgrounds, community centers, libraries, and cafés are the backdrop for many cherished memories, from chatting over coffee to playing tag. These places occupy a third sphere outside of the home and the workplace, a space emphasizing friendship and connection. Victoria “Vicky” Holland Oliveira ’26, Nicholas Kreidler ’28, and Chloe Root ’28 embarked on an investigation of these “third spaces” through a Levitt research grant this summer, seeking to understand the status and history of recreation and community in Utica, our neighboring city.