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Angelique Archer and William Benthem de Grave, both members of the Class of 2020, share dual passions — economics and theatre — and found a way to develop them both, in part because Hamilton has an open curriculum.

Hamilton in France students embarked on their last excursion of the academic year, a two-day long an excursion to Normandy.

The Hamilton in NYC program recently visited The New School to meet and learn about the work of Timon McPhearson, director of the Urban Systems Lab (urbansystemslab.com) and recent appointee to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (www.ipcc.ch).

Isabel O’Malley ’18, recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, will travel abroad to study the production and effects of therapeutic radio next year. Hamilton had four recipients in 2018.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages Zhuoyi Wang was recently invited to co-organize a workshop and present at the annual conference of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CTLA).

Twelve seniors have been elected to associate membership in Sigma Xi, the international Science Research Society.

Jacob (Jake) Colangelo ’20 and Cameron DiGiovanni ’20 have been awarded Coccia Foundation Scholarships for study abroad in Italy. They will use the $2,000 scholarships to study in Italy this summer at the CET Siena Program.

On April 12-14, Martine Guyot-Bender, Claire Mouflard, and Rebecca Loescher from the Department of French and Francophone Studies, gave presentations at the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, hosted this year by Brown University and entitled "Sous les pavés," in reference to the 50th anniversary of the 1968 French protests.

Viva R. Horowitz presented a paper, "Active colloidal particles in emulsion droplets: a model system for cytoplasm" for the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., in March.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were announced at Hamilton’s 67th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 7, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, Jenny Soonthornrangsan ’19 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Marquis Palmer ’18 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.