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In his address at Hamilton’s commencement, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker urged graduates to embrace history – good and bad – and lead the way forward with empathy, courage, and compassion.

Associate Professor of Literature Katherine Terrell presented a paper at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, which met May 9-13 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Terrell's paper, "Reevaluating Bannatyne's Chaucer," examined the role of Geoffrey Chaucer's poems in the Bannatyne Manuscript (1568), one of the most important manuscripts for the preservation of older Scottish poetry.

The Hamilton in NYC program went on a tour of the High Line with Class of 1960 alumnus John Allen and his wife Beth, long-time residents of the Chelsea neighborhood where the Highline is located. The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan.

Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich and Tina Naston ’20 began work this week at archaeological excavation sites in Pylos, Greece. Jessica Williams ’18 will join them after graduation.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz recently presented a paper titled “Sedimental Education; or, The Ethics of Aging” at the International Conference on Narrative in Montréal.

Women's hockey goaltender Sam Walther '18 (Gambrills, Md./The Gunnery [Conn.]) and men's hockey goaltender Evan Buitenhuis '18 (Burlington, Ontario/Nelson HS) received the 2018 Jack B. Riffle Awards at Hamilton College's senior varsity athlete awards celebration on Tuesday, May 15.

Through funding from the Levitt Center, Arthur Williams ’16, a native of Jamaica, will create a socially oriented agricultural enterprise called FreshLife.

Associate Professor of History John Eldevik presented a paper recently at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, which met May 9-13 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo

Several seniors were recently awarded teaching assistantships in France for next year by the French Ministry of Education.

“Eleni’s dedication to her friends and family, to the Hamilton community, to the refugees she worked with over the summer in Greece…. comes not from a place of ticking something off a list but from a place of passion and compassion. She is all in: heart and mind. How she does anything is how she does everything. I feel confident that Leni will take that way of being into the world and do big things.” - Amy James, director of community outreach.