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In the summer of 2022, Professor of Biology Mike McCormick began research on a green beach in Long Island, N.Y.

Islamic and Jewish Political Philosophy. Visual Culture and the Jewish Experience. Judaism and Social Justice. These are just a few of the courses students can select to fulfill Hamilton’s new minor in Jewish Studies.

A classics and archaeology major, Kayley Boddy ’22 initially thought she’d one day be working in a museum dusting off artifacts. Today, you’ll find her in the weathered orange landscape of Utah’s Arches National Park where she works as a backcountry ranger.

Installed last spring and calibrated over the summer, the new 20-inch Planewave telescope at Peters Observatory is three times as powerful as the previous 12-inch Meade telescope.

On a rare day off from pitching for the Vermont Mountaineers last summer, Jack Eshleman ’25 was on his way to Burlington with his mom, who had traveled from their hometown in Collegeville, Pa., to watch as he played in one of the top summer baseball leagues in the country. His phone buzzed. It was former Continental baseball player John Shinn ’02.

“Creativity and innovation are in the DNA of Hamilton College,” says Steven Tepper, Hamilton's 21st president. “Our namesake and original trustee, Alexander Hamilton, was our nation’s creative founding father. Other founding fathers were content with borrowed models or sticking to the old agrarian order. Hamilton knew that a new nation needed new ideas. Ever since, the College’s history has been punctuated by moments of innovation and creativity and invention.”

Sam Pitter ’07 recently added two “work experience” entries to her résumé — head swimming and diving coach at Miami University Ohio and assistant coach of the Cape Verde Olympic swimming team.

Ciere Boatright ’05, Chicago’s new commissioner of the Department of Planning & Development, calls herself a “firecracker.” Born on the Fourth of July, she says, “I have a fiery personality ... I have this desire to light up spaces in a positive way.”

For the past 33 years, Jeffrey Greene ’91 has been freeing incarcerated people in Connecticut’s prisons.

Adam Lewkowicz ’02 is in his 16th season with the Rangers, who won the 2023 World Series after a roller coaster season. We caught up with Lewkowicz in his Fort Worth, Texas, home during the off season.