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Pointed toward law school, Grecia Santos ’20 secured a summer internship at a small immigration law firm in her hometown of Miami. She finds herself immersed in a learning experience far more intense than she’d expected. “Because I thought it would just be looking at laws and reading very dry language, but what we’re dealing with is people talking about the experiences that they had in their home countries, why they left, the fear that they have, hope that they can stay here and rebuild their lives. It’s just very emotional at times,” Santos explains

Students weren’t limited to learning the intricacies of human anatomy via illustrations in a textbook in Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Jessica Fellmeth’s Survey of Human Anatomy class.

An article by Assistant Professor of Government Heather Sullivan was recently published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

While most underclassmen left campus after their final exams, a group of 69 students stayed around to take part in Orientation Leader training. The students will be among those leading Adirondack (AA), Outreach (OA), and Exploration Adventure (XA) trips for members of the class of 2022 in August.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Vikranth Bejjanki recently discussed “Perceptual learning as enhanced connectivity between early sensory areas” in an invited talk at Durham University, United Kingdom.

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.”