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Estella Brenneman ’20, a religious studies major, walked 300 miles along the Camino de Santiago, a historic pilgrimage route in Spain as part of her Levitt Center research project. The College provided the resources for Estella to go, and she talks about how much she loved returning “home” to the Co-Op, a campus residential option located in Woollcott House.
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Her Hamilton-funded research project took her to Belize. Savannah Kelly ’21 looked at the effects of the Guatemala-Belize border dispute on Belize’s indigenous communities.
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While governmental use of technology to monitor and manage citizens may seem like something straight out of an Orwellian novel, Joel Harper ’21 knows that “high-tech tools” are used by governments all around the world.
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Tessa Lavan ’20 spends most of her days in Lourdes, France, stationed at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, observing the people who pass through the Sanctuary and near the Grotto, a Catholic shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.
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Alex Cook ’20 is spending his summer researching a project he devised: “Combating Deception in Genocide.” His work is taking him from case studies to interviews with reporters and staff at NGOs, nonprofits, and government organizations.
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A couple of weeks into his summer research project, David Gagnidze ’20 had attended a social dance and dinner at the Oneida Indian Nation and helped the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community get ready for its annual Strawberry Festival. Both events unfolded within an easy drive of Hamilton; the College itself is located in the Oneida ancestral homeland.
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Economics major Jesse Bennett ’19 is spending his summer analyzing the effects that various policies have on the diffusion of photovoltaic cells (solar panels) in the United States. The focus of his research is to contrast the effectiveness of production subsidies versus consumption subsidies.
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Kayla Self ’21 has been listening to her Puerto Rican mother speak Spanish at home since she was a child, but she didn’t get much practice speaking it herself. After enrolling in a few Spanish courses at Hamilton, she decided to take her oral communication skills to the next level.
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His stack of transcripts is 120 pages deep. Erich Wohl ’18 interviewed 16 African American Hamilton alumni about their experiences with race in the workplace for his summer research project.
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Bridget Lavin ’18's summer research stretches from the federal statute that covers sexual violence at schools to the stories of survivors of that violence.
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