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Ty Kunzman ’20 plans to celebrate his Hamilton graduation by heading right back to school. In June he’ll begin work on his Master of Education in Student Affairs Practice in Higher Education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Development.

Hamilton is a member of the American Talent Initiative (ATI), a national alliance of leading colleges and universities that released a new report this week showing it is on track to enroll 50,000 more lower-income students by 2025.

Anyi Rescalvo was selected as a Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) student cabinet member representing Hamilton. In that role, she attended CICU’s Student Cabinet and Student Aid Advocacy Days on Feb. 10 and 11 in Albany, N.Y.

Four students represented Hamilton, as well as their countries, at the recent Harvard Africa Business Conference (HABC) at the Harvard Business School. They included Christopher Akuleme ’23 from Ghana; Ian Nduhiu ’22 from Kenya; Ade Sotinwa ’21 from Nigeria; and Mariam Ben Slama, an exchange student from Tunisia.

The Hamilton Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 15 members of the class of 2020 at a recent meeting: Sara Carle, Kailey Carlson, Cameron DiGiovanni, Eric Fischer, Charlotte Freed, Theodore Golden, Taomi Kenny, Lantz Kilburn, Matthew Kraemer, Julianna Larson, Alexandra Stetter, Sarah Swinson, Stephen Wisser, Sarah Young, and Francis Zuroski.

Ask the recently retired president of Purchase College, State University of New, what he’ll miss most about his position, and he distills it into two words: “The kids.”

In his Marrow of African American Literature class, Professor Vincent Odamtten wants students to see that African American writers, in describing their own experiences, are writing about the American experience.

Snow – and plenty of it – came to the Hill just in time for Hamilton’s annual FebFest. Just when it looked like FebFest activities would be centered indoors, The Outing Club encouraged everyone to get outdoors on Valentine’s Day and take part in a snowshoe relay.

Hamilton TEDx welcomed Erik Wemple ’86, a media critic with The Washington Post, and Yael Bromberg, chief counsel of voting rights at the Andrew Goodman Foundation, on Feb. 15 to explore issues of political polarization, voter disenfranchisement, and the role of the media in the United States. The program, titled “20/20: Political Divisions,” proved especially relevant in the context of the seminal election coming up in November.

Hamilton is one of only nine institutions that have been top producers of Fulbright U.S. students every year for the last 10 years.