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An article by Assistant Professor of Government Heather Sullivan was recently published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

While most underclassmen left campus after their final exams, a group of 69 students stayed around to take part in Orientation Leader training. The students will be among those leading Adirondack (AA), Outreach (OA), and Exploration Adventure (XA) trips for members of the class of 2022 in August.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Vikranth Bejjanki recently discussed “Perceptual learning as enhanced connectivity between early sensory areas” in an invited talk at Durham University, United Kingdom.

Seraphina Buckholtz ’20 has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for study abroad this summer. She’ll study in Amman, Jordan, through the Council for Educational Travel, Intensive language and internship program. Buckholtz will study modern standard Arabic, and the Jordanian dialect and will intern with a refugee settlement.

“If you wait for things to happen to you, they aren’t going to happen. You have to know what you want, and go for it, and take it because it’s yours,” said David Dacres ’18 on his successful Hamilton career.

Hamilton Education Studies students enrolled in Education, Teaching and Social Change with Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies Meredith Madden concluded an experiential learning project that partnered them with Central New York high schools during the spring semester.

Before the semester ended, some Hamilton Outing Club members took a breather and participated in the Round the Mountain Canoe and Kayak Races in Saranac Lake.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alexandra Plakias ’02 recently moderated a panel discussion exploring the history, psychology, and ethics of entomophagy, as well as culinary uses of “the most delicious insects.”

Damhnait McHugh, the Raab Family Professor of Biology at Colgate University, spoke with students in the New York City Program about her research on invasive species and the role that New York City plays as a port-of-entry for them. She told students about recently introduced species like the Crazy Jumping Worm and the Asian Long-horned Beetle that can wreak havoc on forests across the Northeast.

The Hamilton College Chapter of Sigma Xi, the international science research society, initiated several new members at a meeting that took place on May 18.