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More than 75 members of the Hamilton community gathered via Zoom on April 29 to hear alumni experts discuss the challenges and realities of governing amidst a pandemic. The virtual panel, hosted by the Hamilton Career Network, featured Tom Vilsack ’72, former U.S. secretary of agriculture and governor of Iowa; Bill Purcell ’76, former mayor of Nashville; and Maura Calsyn ’95, managing director of health policy at the Center for American Progress.

Now that religious studies major Pheobe Duke-Mosier ’19 has been out of Hamilton for a little more than a year, she’s gained a deeper appreciation for her liberal arts education. She agreed to answer these questions about Hamilton and beyond.

History major Olivia Maddox ’20 is excited to begin work as an educational consultant at Apolish, a New York City branch of the Chinese consulting firm Thinktown.

Owen McCarthy ’20 has always enjoyed working with his hands. After Hamilton, he will have the opportunity to do just that as a rotational project engineer at New York City-based Structure Tone, a global leader in general contracting and construction management.

Avery Cook ’21 is using her study break time to do something constructive. She’s sewing masks for healthcare workers.

President David Wippman co-authored opinion pieces for both Inside Higher Ed and The Hill in the last week.

There were (unexpected) lessons learned and knowledge gained during her abbreviated Fulbright Binational Internship in Mexico City, and Micaela Rostov ’19 is determined to make the best of the opportunity cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brad Smallwood ’90 joined Facebook in 2008, just as it was beginning to run advertisements on its platform and its annual revenues had not yet topped $100 million. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg recruited him away from Yahoo.

This week’s Hamilton Encore features the Hamilton College Saxophone Ensemble performing the toe-tapping tune “Blister in the Sun,” arranged by saxophonist Tyler Boudreau ’20. The Sax Ensemble is part of the music department’s chamber ensemble program and is directed by Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and lecturer in saxophone.

In the fall of his junior year, Robert Welch ’20 attended a weekly “geo-lunch” meeting hosted by the Geosciences Department. The speaker, who was discussing the value of attending graduate school, imparted the following advice to the students sitting around the lunch table: “You must have the urge to ask the question ‘why?’”