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Marquis Palmer ’18 will explore “The Inner-World of Skateboarding Communities” in his Watson fellowship. Palmer, recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa, also received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to the Czech Republic.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication Timothy Recuber recently received the 2018 Recent Contribution award for his book Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster.

Fourteen chemistry and biochemistry/molecular biology majors presented posters at the 255th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in New Orleans in March.

As a high school senior in the Bronx, Osvaldo Adames ’15 ran out of math courses to take. By his junior year at Hamilton, where he majored in math and minored in Chinese, he'd grown to understand the gap in resources and opportunity students faced at his former school, which hadn’t offered calculus, much less AP Calculus.

Hamilton College has confirmed the presence of norovirus on campus and has implemented a plan to address it. More than two dozen students have become sick with symptoms consistent with the virus.

For 16-year-old Sadia Ambure, adjusting to life in America was anything but easy. After arriving in Utica from a Kenyan refugee camp, Sadia described the challenge of living through the harsh winters of Upstate New York. “I hate snow,” she said. “It hurts my skin. I’m like a snake—my face turns red, then ashy.”

Assistant Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson recently presented her research on the adjudication of executive privilege in federal district courts in a symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

“How I became an atheist,” a poem by Heidi Wong ’20 has been announced as the winner of the Button Poetry 2018 Short Form Contest.

In a “What I Did With My Major in Humanities” panel hosted by the Career Center, five alumni who majored in sociology, women’s studies, or Africana studies explained how their academics affected their careers. They shared stories on influential moments from Hamilton, skills that transferred from their major to their work, and critical pieces of advice that all 40 students in the room could use moving forward.

An article announcing the induction of new members of Hamilton’s recently chartered chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa was published in the Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa.