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Jacob (Jake) Colangelo ’20 and Cameron DiGiovanni ’20 have been awarded Coccia Foundation Scholarships for study abroad in Italy. They will use the $2,000 scholarships to study in Italy this summer at the CET Siena Program.

On April 12-14, Martine Guyot-Bender, Claire Mouflard, and Rebecca Loescher from the Department of French and Francophone Studies, gave presentations at the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, hosted this year by Brown University and entitled "Sous les pavés," in reference to the 50th anniversary of the 1968 French protests.

Viva R. Horowitz presented a paper, "Active colloidal particles in emulsion droplets: a model system for cytoplasm" for the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., in March.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were announced at Hamilton’s 67th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 7, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, Jenny Soonthornrangsan ’19 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Marquis Palmer ’18 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.

An article co-authored by Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons appears in the May issue of the Journal of Algebra and Its Applications (JAA).

Managing Editor of FRONTLINE Andrew Metz ’91 recently returned to Hamilton for a screening of Exodus, a documentary about the stories of refugees and migrants fleeing challenges like war and persecution, told from their personal perspectives.

Charli XCX headlined the annual Class and Charter Day concert that took place on May 4 in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Senior Fellow Ben Mittman, who has a post-Hamilton job in a neuroscience lab at MIT, spent his final year at Hamilton studying how the brain collects and processes information related to social interaction.

Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Chair of Philosophy and director of the Levitt Center, and Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kyoko Omori recently visited Japan to discuss a new program focused on social innovation and leadership.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek S. Amar was recently awarded The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowship in Buddhist Studies. Amar’s selection was through an open, international competition.