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As we conclude 2020, please enjoy this short reflection from College Hill, with special thanks to Ben Leit ’23 for his arrangement of Carissima.
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As students and faculty adapted to new ways of learning and teaching, hundreds of staff members worked behind the scenes this semester to ensure that campus operated as smoothly and safely as possible.
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What did it take for Hamilton to successfully finish the fall semester in the midst of a global pandemic? First and foremost, student resiliency, faculty adjusting to new teaching environments, staff reinventing how campus operates, and alumni, parents, and friends who provided the resources and support to open safely.
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Chemistry major Will Richardson ’21 never had a science course like it: Instead of doing lab work and problem-solving, the 11 students pored over scientific literature and then presented about what they’d read. Much of it was newly published work on COVID-19.
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Convinced of the importance of digital technologies to the future of Hamilton and its students, two alumni with careers in finance each have endowed a professorship in computer science, a major boost for a department with a growing enrollment.
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In June, as the pandemic blanketed much of the country, Dave Steadman ’03 started a job as the chief development officer of the venerable National Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Although we have all faced the same pandemic and adapted to our own forms of isolation, we each have felt and experienced the past nine months in our own way. Debuted on Dec. 11, the visual, choral Twenty / Twenty project gives viewers a glimpse into both the individual and the collective, drawing from personal responses to COVID-19 in a collaborative and socially distant way.
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How does a service internship program provide service during a pandemic? If you’re a COOP (Community Outreach and Opportunity Project) service intern you adjust, adapt, and take to Zoom. And then you expand programming to engage other Hamilton students eager to take on volunteering.
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In an essay titled Getting around anti-Democratic obstacles to addressing climate change, Professor of Government Peter Cannavò explains how a fundamental problem in our system of governance stands in the way of enacting climate change legislation.
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Back in Bundy West, government major Tracee Plowell ’95 was bent on going to law school, then running for mayor in her hometown. But she would answer a different call to public service — with the Department of Justice.
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