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Professor of Biology Herm Lehman has been applying his professional academic interest in public health to the greater good as a volunteer COVID-19 contact tracer for Oneida County.

Claire Curran ’20, and Hamilton’s other student sustainability coordinators had put together a week’s worth of campus events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, but the COVID-19 pandemic swept them aside. Looking for a bit of inspiration, we asked Curran two questions related to Earth Day 2020.

During a fall semester in Hamilton’s New York City Program, economics major Bobby Finan ’13 discovered a) that investment banking wasn’t for him and b) the consumer products aspect of business was. At the time, craft distilleries were popping up everywhere, and Finan found them fascinating.

Deacon Lile ’09 had two senior theses to juggle at Hamilton, one in chemistry and the other, his clear favorite, in history. He was burrowing into the devastating impact of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic on Hamilton College and environs.

By the eighth month of his Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Colombia, the new environment felt like home to Henry Shuldiner ’19. Then the coronavirus forced a change of plans.

In consideration of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cancellation of spring SAT and ACT exams, the uncertainty of future test dates, and the overall extraordinary circumstances so many prospective families face, Hamilton has decided to temporarily change its testing stance from “test flexible” to “test optional” for all first-year and transfer applicants for the 2021-22 academic year.

Kyra Richardson ’21, a digital media intern in LITS and a student writer for the Communications office, describes her new role on LITS’ virtual Student Support Center.

Keith Ruggles ’20 is a longtime Hamilton Outing Club leader and officer, Adirondack Adventure orientation leader, and student writer for the Communications office. Here, he tells how the training he’s received as an outdoor leader has been valuable in helping him manage the uncertain current environment.

As he finishes his final semester at Hamilton online before starting as a software engineer position at J.P. Morgan, Chris Browne is volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and a volunteer firefighter in his home community.

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