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Earlier this month, College Chaplain Jeff McArn wrote to the campus community with some news: “After 38 years of faithfully offering care – spiritual and otherwise – for our campus community, Fr. John Croghan, our Catholic Chaplain and priest at St. Mary’s Church in Clinton, retired this week.

Crafting Criminal Justice Reform in Response to Black Lives Matter, an experiential learning practicum in the government department, is a timely offering in this evolving environment.

Her senior year at Hamilton that Jesica Lindor ’12 committed to a career in education, and now she's a teacher at a Brooklyn charter school, where students are back in the classroom.

The Physics Department is taking learning out of the lab and into the field. Physics 100/200 and Physics 190 classes have been experimenting with launching pressure rockets behind the campus athletic fields. Faculty members Kristen Burson, Viva Horowitz, and Seth Major, and Director of Laboratories/Head Technician Adam Lark are making the most of this outdoor lab to teach the concepts of pressure and distance.

Traci Burch, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University, gave Hamilton’s annual Constitution Day Lecture with a talk titled “Public and Media Attention to Officer-Involved Killings.” The lecture detailed the constitutional right to protest, and examined the effectivity of protests in holding police accountable for officer-involved killings, drawing on the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement.

Professor of Biology Herm Lehman discussed “The Fundamentals of COVID-19, Contact-Tracing, and Campus Safety” in a Zoom lecture on Sept. 16. He provided background information on the virus, before explaining the role of contact-tracing and detailing his work with Oneida County over the summer.

Given the chance to serve as a Young Ambassador for The German Academic Exchange Service, Eamon Gibbons ’21, a biology major and German minor, eagerly said yes.

It’s an unexpected career for someone who once thought she’d be a creative writer, so maybe it’s fitting that The Trustworthy Accountability Group used a vivid metaphor to announced that it hired Danielle Raulli Meah ’10 as its first director of threat intelligence.

As a math major considering a graduate degree in applied mathematics, it didn’t take Summer Sheng '21 long to realize that a pandemic-based project would be relevant to the emerging crisis and to him personally.

In 2019, Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie and Photography and Digital Imagery Specialist Marianita Peaslee visited Nevis, Alexander Hamilton’s birthplace, with three students to begin the process of digitizing historical documents. The manuscripts are now available online.