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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.