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Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven recently co-organized and co-chaired a panel on “Issues of Power and Complicity in Psychiatry and Beyond” with her daughter Dr. Simha E. Ravven ’98.

The respiratory disease center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston seems to be a meeting point for Hamilton alumni, as Deb Gakpo ’19 is the third alumna to take a job there.

Kamila Shamsie ’94 has been awarded the UK’s 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Home Fire.

Jim Eisenberg '98 has joined Preti Strategies as policy advisor of their Public Affairs Firm. The former chief of staff and chief policy advisor to the Massachusetts Speaker, Eisenberg has served in public affairs since 1999.

It can be hard enough to get a table at New York City's Prune during the dinner rush or for weekend brunch, much less midday on Wednesday, when it isn't even open. A popular East Village spot, the cozily cramped restaurant seats just 30 people.

The Career Center’s Student Connect Team led an overnight trip to Boston designed to offer fellow students the opportunity to explore potential careers through site visits, panel discussions and networking with alumni employees at various companies and organizations.

Steve Cunden ’18 has an unusual lab partner this summer. Baxter is pretty quiet and lacking personality, but he is very intelligent. Cunden is an intern at TechBridgeWorld lab at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, and Baxter, his partner, is a robot.  TechBridgeWorld, founded by Mary Bernardine Dias ’98, is a lab dedicated to bringing robotics to underdeveloped/developing countries and disadvantaged communities.

Everett W. Young ’98 is currently a fellow and a regional director of the Startup Leadership Program. He is also the co-director of the San Francisco Chapter of the Hamilton Venture Network, an organization that has a resource of networks and events, which allow Hamilton College entrepreneurs to connect.

Disadvantaged children in struggling schools are often not given a chance to succeed, and public school systems are sometimes unable to find the resources to encourage or inspire some of their students. Emma Simmons ’11 is working as a teaching fellow for Citizen Schools, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering students from struggling schools across the country.

Bravo TV recently announced the names of seventeen gourmets who will vie for the title of “Top Chef” on Top Chef: Las Vegas, the sixth and yet most sinful season of the cable network’s popular culinary reality show. Among the contestants is Ashley Merriman ’98, who brings years of restaurant experience in New York City and Seattle, Wash., to the chopping block.