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President David Wippman stopped by to have lunch with Hamilton in France students on Nov. 21. The visit took place at Reid Hall, in the center of Paris.

During my semester abroad in Paris, I interned at TRINOV, a French waste management company that helped its clients become more sustainable and more cost-effective in their waste disposal practices. The company did this through software that organized the types of waste clients produced, determined what amount of the waste was recycled, and found better ways to dispose of each type of waste.

Students in Hamilton’s Program in France recently attended a round table on the upcoming French presidential election. The event was organized by Hamilton in France on behalf of the Francophone programs at Reid Hall in Paris, where HiF is located. The roundtable attracted a full house, especially since it followed closely the first televised three-and-a- half-hour log debate of all candidates in the April 23 first round of voting.

Five Hamilton juniors have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad in the spring 2017 semester. Recipients are Natasha Espinosa, Daiyan Hossain, Kalvin Nash, Kureem Nugent and Chidera Onyeoziri.

Students in the Hamilton in France program recently traveled to the Alsace region to visit Strasbourg, the capital, and a number of picturesque villages.

* Editor's note. This activity took place before the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. All Hamilton in France Program  students are accounted for and safe. Hamilton in France Program students recently visited the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France. The Palais des Papes was home to nine popes during the 14th century, and remains the largest Gothic palace in Europe. Students observed the impressive palace constructed out of limestone native to southern France.

Graduating seniors Ryan Dorey, Victoria Lin, Sara Kleinman and Isabel Oskwarek were chosen by the French Ministry of Education to participate in the Teaching Assistants in France Program for 2015-16.

While many Hamilton students spent Thanksgiving in study abroad programs on other continents far from home, faculty and program directors did their best to bring a bit of the American holiday to the students.

Students in the Hamilton College Junior Year in France spent the weekend of March 23-24 in Normandy where they visited the World War II Memorial Museum in Caen, the American cemetery facing Omaha Beach, and the cliff top battle site of the Pointe du Hoc, a point of attack by the United States Rangers on June 6, 1944.

Students on the Hamilton Junior Year in France program escaped the four inches of snow that fell on Paris during the weekend of January 19-20 to travel to Provence.