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For Ashley Ramcharan ’20, what began as a late night conversation with friends about being a racial minority on campus turned into a 10-week long research project.

XRF Senior Laboratory Technician Rick Conrey and XRF Laboratory Technician Laureen Wagoner recently attended the 10th International Conference on the Analysis of Geological and Environmental Materials.

A grant that would give him an entire summer to research his own project about Japan, working one-on-one with a professor? That sounded good to first-year student Shavell Jones ’21, so he went for it.

Here’s a lesson Konstantin Tokarr has learned thus far from doing his summer research on low-income housing development in Greater New York City suburbia: Getting the information you need can be difficult. But he’s not complaining.

Joining the ongoing examination and analysis of human-caused environmental changes in the Adirondacks, a group of Hamilton researchers spent four days taking sediment cores from four Adirondack lakes.

Sarah Kane ‘19 spent the spring semester in Bristol, England, in a behavioral biology program studying animal welfare and the laws that surround wild animals, and clinical animal behavior focusing on cats and dogs. Kane also wrote a dissertation with Dr. Nicola Rooney on the accuracy, or specificity and sensitivity of diabetic alert dogs.

It’s summer, and the stream of fervent energy that fuels life on the Hill for most of the year has slowed to a trickle. Much of campus lies dormant now: there is no smell of bacon wafting out of Commons or McEwen in the early morning, and times like 11:15 or 2:30 no longer draw hordes of backpack-wearing students walking from one class to another on Martin’s Way. In the back corner of campus, however, there is a familiar hum of activity rattling the lethargy of hot summer afternoons and evenings.

The June issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (JASREP) contained a special section on landscape archaeology that highlighted the research of several Hamilton faculty and alumni.

Looking for an internship that fit his love for biology, Jesse Yu ’19, came upon an opportunity in a lab at New York University’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, and he snagged a position there spring semester. Later he was off to STARS, a program in California.

Kayla Self ’21 has been listening to her Puerto Rican mother speak Spanish at home since she was a child, but she didn’t get much practice speaking it herself. After enrolling in a few Spanish courses at Hamilton, she decided to take her oral communication skills to the next level.