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As an art history major on the pre-med track, Miriam Lerner ’24 believes that college is a time to explore your passions — even if they differ from your career goals. She has taken advantage of the open curriculum and at the same time, her interest in medicine has grown through her biology research at Hamilton. That research led her to a summer internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Hamilton has added an interdisciplinary concentration in data science to its areas of study beginning this fall.

In an email to the Hamilton community on Aug. 11, President David Wippman shared news of the death of life trustee David Mason ’61.

John Myles ’24 has now spent two summers in Utqiagvik, Alaska, a small city in northern Alaska with a dense and unique shorebird population. As part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research team, he searched for shorebird nests, monitored chick hatches, and tagged adult birds.

Niamh McDade-Clay ’25 spent the summer as an intern at the New York State Division of Human Rights in its Rochester regional office. She was supported by Summer Internship Funding Committee and the Diversity and Social Justice Project Fund. Here she tells what drew her to this opportunity and how it fits with her future plans.

With apologies to the Bard, all the world’s a stage — and Yina Luo Moore ’03 is ensuring that professional performers have their forum in Adams, Mass.

In an email to the Hamilton community on Aug. 8, President David Wippman announced the death of John W. Chandler, the College’s 15th president.

Olivia Davis ’23 is an asset management operations summer analyst at Goldman Sachs. As she unravels financial information, she learns the nuances of fixed income insurance and bilateral products. They’re complicated concepts to understand — and even more complicated to manage — but she appreciates the challenge.

Should college presidents weigh in on hotly contested public controversies? In an essay titled “Speaking up about college presidents speaking out” published in The Hill, President David Wippman and his co-author, Cornell American Studies Professor Glenn Altschuler, addressed the question.

“The home” cannot be defined by one thing. As a place of significance to billions of people, it takes on different meanings in different contexts, transforming walls and floors into a dimensional concept that is ripe for philosophical study.