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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Hamilton College a $150,000 grant for a new curricular effort that will connect students and faculty with four regional cultural institutions, as well as the College’s Wellin Museum of Art and Burke Library’s Special Collections.
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Expanding knowledge of our universe has led to academic and professional recognition for Peter Schloerb ’73 for his work on the advancement of powerful millimeter-wave telescopes.
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Melissa Williams’ ’89 path to Sierra Club and a career in environmentalism has had a few twists and turns, almost like the trip down a river — the French Broad River to be exact.
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Reaching for the sky, Tracey Stroock McFarland ’90 recently floated a turn as an actress to lead producer with The Kite Runner on Broadway. The play, an adaptation of the bestselling 2003 novel about atonement for a childhood betrayal between friends in Afghanistan, played a limited run on the Great White Way last summer.
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When he looks to the sky it’s not a plane or Superman in his sights for ornithologist Craig Caldwell ’73, who resumed pandemic-restricted travel in 2022 in search of birds — Guatemala in April, a fourth trip to Brazil in June, and Australia in October.
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Dave Lahey ’83 was lying in a hospital bed in Toronto, more than a little unsure of his future — or if he had any future at all. The long-ago Hamilton hockey captain was in trouble. Cancer had grabbed him hard the year before and wasn’t letting go. One afternoon, he was asked to watch a Continental game online.
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Flipping a coin is not a game of chance but a beloved avocation for numismatics expert Bill Fivaz ’56, who has been collecting coins since 1950.
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As the Alaska regional administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Jon Kurland ’90 oversees the management of commercial fisheries, marine mammals, and ocean habitats.
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Retired U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Chris Woodbridge ’87 is humbled to be entrusted with the stewardship of what he calls one of the U.S. Marines Corps’ “family treasures.”
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Working as one of the area’s two female oncologists/hematologists in a field traditionally made up of men, Alicia Favale DeTraglia ’93 has become a standout in her Central New York community.
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