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As a high school senior in the Bronx, Osvaldo Adames ’15 ran out of math courses to take. By his junior year at Hamilton, where he majored in math and minored in Chinese, he'd grown to understand the gap in resources and opportunity students faced at his former school, which hadn’t offered calculus, much less AP Calculus.

Hamilton College has confirmed the presence of norovirus on campus and has implemented a plan to address it. More than two dozen students have become sick with symptoms consistent with the virus.

For 16-year-old Sadia Ambure, adjusting to life in America was anything but easy. After arriving in Utica from a Kenyan refugee camp, Sadia described the challenge of living through the harsh winters of Upstate New York. “I hate snow,” she said. “It hurts my skin. I’m like a snake—my face turns red, then ashy.”

Assistant Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson recently presented her research on the adjudication of executive privilege in federal district courts in a symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

“How I became an atheist,” a poem by Heidi Wong ’20 has been announced as the winner of the Button Poetry 2018 Short Form Contest.

In a “What I Did With My Major in Humanities” panel hosted by the Career Center, five alumni who majored in sociology, women’s studies, or Africana studies explained how their academics affected their careers. They shared stories on influential moments from Hamilton, skills that transferred from their major to their work, and critical pieces of advice that all 40 students in the room could use moving forward.

An article announcing the induction of new members of Hamilton’s recently chartered chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa was published in the Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa.

Kyoko Omori, associate professor of Japanese and chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Hakuho Foundation Japanese Research Fellowship to support her research during her sabbatical in 2018-19.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera convened a conference on April 20 – 21 titled “Russian Elite Attitudes toward Conflict and the West,” one of two international meetings conducted on campus this past weekend.

“Know thyself” is the motto that guides Hamilton students, and Joe Pucci ’18 is living up to that in his Bristol Fellowship, “Values, Methodologies and Locales in Learning Environments: An Inquiry Into Knowing Thyself.”