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Hamilton College Professor Doran Larson, Nation of Islam representative Courtney Muhammad, and re-entry educator Lee Carr spoke in a webinar moderated by Mohawk Valley Community College Trustee Tony Colón on Oct. 28. This was the sixth installment of eight webinars in the series “Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform in Oneida & Herkimer Counties.”

They are three seniors who share a major, but you’d never know it from the courses they’ve taken. You might be able to tell it by their level of satisfaction with their academic agendas — as interdisciplinary concentrators they built their own majors to what interested them most.

Journalist Antonia Noori Frazen ’11, who won a George Polk Award in 2018, works as a general-assignment reporter for The Washington Post, she agreed to answer some questions about her career.

A love for lab research has characterized Kaela Makins’ ’21 Hamilton experience, and she wants to ensure that other students of color can discover and maintain their own passion for STEM studies. That’s why she serves as an organizer for Black in Cancer.

Communications Office student writer Melissa (Aurelie) Kaleka ’24 recently took part in a Musical Alchemy songwriting session with professional songwriter Anne Buckle, offered by the Counseling Center. Here, she talks about the experience.

A recent afternoon celebration of Kevin ’70 and Karen Kennedy’s generosity and participation in American Art 1900-1950 offered all those involved, directly and tangentially, an opportunity to revisit the wealth of experiences incorporated in the course.

Oneida County (N.Y.) District Attorney Scott McNamara and Save Our Streets Program Director Patrick Johnson discussed how race and poverty intersect with the criminal justice system in a webinar moderated by SUNY Polytechnic Institute Professor Ronni Tichenor on Oct. 21. This was the latest in the collaboration with Colleges and Community for Unity and Change Lecture Series sponsored by Hamilton’s Levitt Center Law and Justice Lab.

Seven members of the Class of 2021 were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society on Oct. 19.

The Zo, a series of videos from The Marshall Project that takes a look at life inside prison received the 2020 Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling from the Online News Association. The series is based on the sentiments expressed in letters in the American Prison Writing Archive founded by Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Doran Larson.

It was a pivotal moment for Paul J. Iribe ’09. When he was chatting with a friend and colleague, the friend made a Dungeons & Dragons reference. A new career would follow.