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Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen recognized 10 faculty members with Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards in three categories at the May 19 faculty meeting.

Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen read tributes to recipients of this year’s teaching awards at the May 19 faculty meeting. Winners were announced at Class and Charter Day on May 11.

Women's basketball guard Kelcie Zarle '22 (Wellesley Hills, Mass./Wellelsey HS) and football defensive lineman James Ball '22 (Saugerties, N.Y./Saugerties HS) were honored as Hamilton College's top athletes from the Class of 2022 at the Jack B. Riffle Celebration for senior varsity athletes on Tuesday, May 17.

Roger Danilek ’21 arrived on the Hill knowing he wanted to pursue either engineering or physics. Then, he took a computer science class and that changed everything.

Hillary Bisonó Ortega ’21, an art and cinema and media studies major, received a Smallen Creativity Grant for her project “A Tale of Two Bushwicks,” a photographic documentation of changes in the neighborhood where she grew up. She describes the project below. Her work and that of 12 other senior art majors is on display at the Wellin Museum through May 20.

Theatre and psychology double major Gus Gonzalez ’21 was recently accepted into the Atlantic Acting School, where he will enter a two-and-a-half-year program that focuses on acting and the theatre business. Here, Gonzalez discusses the application process and his time at Hamilton.

Alexander Jarman, assistant curator of exhibitions and academic outreach at the Wellin Museum of Art, writes here about student and faculty engagement with the exhibition Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud.

Lucille Kline ’22 has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian through a virtual program offered by the University of Nizhny Novgorod. The Critical Language Scholarship is a program run by the U.S. Department of State for intensive language study in 15 critical languages.

It was a return to semi-normal as academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships, and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at the annual Class & Charter Day convocation on May 11. President David Wippman announced the winners in a tent on Dunham Green as spectators watched online.

Family camping trips inspired a love of nature in Robbie Rioux ’21, and he studied environmental science in high school. Now he's pursuing a master's degree in the subject at Yale University.