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Seraphina Buckholtz ’20 has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for study abroad this summer. She’ll study in Amman, Jordan, through the Council for Educational Travel, Intensive language and internship program. Buckholtz will study modern standard Arabic, and the Jordanian dialect and will intern with a refugee settlement.

“If you wait for things to happen to you, they aren’t going to happen. You have to know what you want, and go for it, and take it because it’s yours,” said David Dacres ’18 on his successful Hamilton career.

Hamilton Education Studies students enrolled in Education, Teaching and Social Change with Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies Meredith Madden concluded an experiential learning project that partnered them with Central New York high schools during the spring semester.

Before the semester ended, some Hamilton Outing Club members took a breather and participated in the Round the Mountain Canoe and Kayak Races in Saranac Lake.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alexandra Plakias ’02 recently moderated a panel discussion exploring the history, psychology, and ethics of entomophagy, as well as culinary uses of “the most delicious insects.”

Damhnait McHugh, the Raab Family Professor of Biology at Colgate University, spoke with students in the New York City Program about her research on invasive species and the role that New York City plays as a port-of-entry for them. She told students about recently introduced species like the Crazy Jumping Worm and the Asian Long-horned Beetle that can wreak havoc on forests across the Northeast.

The Hamilton College Chapter of Sigma Xi, the international science research society, initiated several new members at a meeting that took place on May 18.

Seventeen senior docents at the Wellin Museum of Art graduated this past weekend, one of the largest groups since the museum’s opening five years ago.

For Samantha Donohue ’18, communication is key to success at her new position as a project manager with Epic, a health software company. Much of Donohue’s responsibilities will include traveling to hospitals to assist medical professionals in better understanding and using Epic’s software.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, presented “The Performance Effects of Gender Diversity on Bank Boards” at the Gender and Career Progression Conference that took place at the Bank of England on May 14.