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Amy Gaffney, Director of the Oral Communication Center, co-authored a chapter in a volume focused on integrating communication across the curriculum.

Kate Burnham ’23 won the top prize in the Oral Communication Center’s Three Minute Thesis Competition on April 29. The sociology major’s topic was “What Does it Mean to be Spicy Smart? Elucidating the Experiences of Students with Learning Disabilities at an Academically Rigorous College.”

Four students were awarded prizes in three categories in the annual Public Speaking Competition held on March 4. Presentations were either persuasive or informative in nature, and in one category, students addressed an assigned topic.

Director of the Oral Communication Center Amy Gaffney was recently invited to present a keynote session and workshop about communication-intensive courses for the University of Hong Kong.

Sarah Gyurina ’22 won the top prize in the Oral Communication Center’s Three Minute Thesis Competition on May 7.

Three Hamilton students were recently awarded the top prizes at the College’s popular Public Speaking Competition, and they have shared their best tips for educating, entertaining, and persuading their audiences.

Five students were awarded prizes in three categories in the annual Public Speaking Competition that took place this year over Zoom. Presentations were either persuasive or informative in nature, and in one category, students addressed an assigned topic.

Bioethics students try their hand at podcasting to address topics such as stem cell therapy, predicting criminality, and data privacy.

Loving math and persuasively sharing the love are two different things, which is why students in Math 235 present research projects to their classmates and take a 25-minute oral exam one-on-one with their professor.

Amy Gaffney, director of the Oral Communications Center (OCC), was recently invited to present at the 2nd Annual Symposium on College Internship Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.