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Some stories are told through words; others through music. This summer, Macy Carter ’28 is exploring the latter.

A lifelong passion for soccer gave Finn Norsen ’28 the opportunity to combine his love of the game with his growing interest in photography. This summer, Norsen served as the photographer and multimedia creator for the Western Mass Pioneers, documenting everything from pregame preparations to match-winning celebrations, while gaining firsthand experience in the fast-paced world of sports media.

At 10 a.m., the cast and crew of The Tempest began rehearsing. They shifted between dissecting Shakespeare’s text, blocking scenes, experimenting with movement, and figuring out how to bring a century old story to life in a barn.

On Florida’s Wakulla and St. Marks rivers, a group of Hamilton researchers spent their summer snorkeling for freshwater snails, watching for alligators and manatees, and collecting samples that preserve thousands of years of environmental history.

Professor of French and Francophone Studies Martine Guyot-Bender will spend this fall in Cambodia studying the country’s emerging art-house cinema and teaching screenwriting at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, after having been selected for the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Her research will explore how a new generation of Cambodian filmmakers represents a society still navigating the legacy of the Khmer Rouge while moving toward modernization.

For Paige Hescock ’27, every day as a newspaper reporter brings a new story to tell. This summer, Hescock is interning as a news reporter at the Daily Sentinel in Rome, N.Y., where she covers local news, interviews community members, photographs events, and writes stories for both print and online publication. From tracking down sources over the phone to covering events in person, the internship has immersed her in the fast-paced world of daily journalism.

A growing partnership between Hamilton College and the Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI) is giving students the opportunity to pursue biomedical research. This summer, Lydia DeTraglia ’28 and Aksel Reid ’27 are spending 10 weeks at the institute in Utica conducting independent research projects while gaining firsthand experience in a professional laboratory.

For Olivia Piersall ’27, history is not simply confined to textbooks. This summer, she’s helping to preserve one of the nation’s most significant historical archives at the world’s largest library. Piersall is serving as a junior fellow in the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress, where she is processing the library’s 9/11 newspaper collection.

For Evan Fernando ’29, writing has never been simply about getting published. It has been a way to understand himself, advocate for others, and explore the issues that matter most to him.

While most of campus is asleep, the lights inside Hamilton’s Peters Observatory are still on. This summer, Associate Professor of Instruction for Physics Adam Lark and students Marcus Raabe ’27 and John Fitzgerald ’27 spend their nights tracking distant stars, searching for tiny flickers that reveal exoplanets: planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system.