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Here are some of the highlights of the 2021 second quarter’s news coverage of the College.

Colorful artwork, fresh food, and a lively conversation with a renowned champion for same-sex marriage were among the highlights of Hamilton’s first Pride Month celebration sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center (DMC).

COVID-19 put a pause on Hamilton College athletics for almost 13 months, but when the NESCAC decided sports could begin again with competition in early April, the Continentals responded with some outstanding individual performances.

Breaking into the entertainment industry might sound like an ambition so grand that it’s almost unattainable. But Danielle Hirsch ’21 worked her way up to an externship with United Talent Agency (UTA), where she was soon offered a desk opening in the theatre department.

Attorney Olabisi “Bisi” Ladeji Okubadejo ’95 sees her job as an opportunity to transform the educational experience for students and the work experience for employees at Georgetown University. She’s Georgetown’s associate vice president for equal opportunity, affirmative action, and compliance.

Continuing a project that began last summer, four Hamilton students are working with Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Mahala Stewart to study how families have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Shania Kuo ’23, Caroline Freundel ’24, Kaela Dunne ’22, and Steven Campos ’22 are interviewing local parents, mostly mothers, to gain a better understanding of how their lives and households have changed over the course of the past year. The research is being supported by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

Library Information Technology Services (LITS) has awarded Innovations in Digital Pedagogy Fellowships for the 2021-22 academic year to three faculty members: Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lacey Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Sociology Alex Manning, and Associate Professor of Biology Michael McCormick.

Will Richardson ’21 is spending his summer working in the clinical pharmacology program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) through a research fellowship.

The idea for Luis Colli’s ’22 Emerson Grant research project has been years in the making. After immigrating to the United States from Venezuela, he noticed parallels between the 18th-century South and North American revolutions — but when he pointed these connections out, Americans tended to resist them.

After a comprehensive search process, FoJo Beans, a coffee roaster from Hamilton, N.Y., has been selected as the successor to Café Opus and will open two locations on campus. Work on the new cafés is underway, and an opening date for FoJo South (McEwen Dining Hall) and FoJo North (Taylor Science Center) will be announced closer to the start of the academic year.