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From “Jam Camp” in Clinton to kayaking in the Adirondacks, Hamilton’s 61 orientation adventure trips helped ease members of the Class of ’23 into life at Hamilton. The five-day trips gave Hamilton’s newest students an opportunity to get to know their classmates and explore the area.

Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend and her colleagues sampled the blood cholesterol levels of 140 crow nestlings along an urban-to-rural gradient in California, returning to track their survival rates after they fledged. They found that the more urban the environment, the higher the blood cholesterol of the crow nestlings raised there.

Maggie Horne '19, who has a job teaching math to high school students, learned she wanted to be an educator through Hamilton's Community Outreach & Opportunity Project.

Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald' s book The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama, featuring interviews with avant-garde filmmakers, was recently published by Oxford University Press.

Her Hamilton-funded research project took her to Belize. Savannah Kelly ’21 looked at the effects of the Guatemala-Belize border dispute on Belize’s indigenous communities.

Nicholas Walters ’20 spent the summer conducting research about the impact of medieval and Renaissance music on more modern pieces. With the aid of his adviser, he will write an essay that reflects his research and academic interests.

For many students pursuing a higher education, a common goal relates to finding ways to give back upon graduation. At Hamilton, students like Anyi Rescalvo ’22 are able to get a jump-start on giving back through opportunities for career-related experiences during the summer.

In an opinion piece published by Inside Higher Ed, Doran Larson, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Literature, discusses the value of allowing the incarcerated to study in prison.

While governmental use of technology to monitor and manage citizens may seem like something straight out of an Orwellian novel, Joel Harper ’21 knows that “high-tech tools” are used by governments all around the world.