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Assistant Professor of Literature Stephanie Bahr recently published a personal essay about reading and teaching as a scholar with a disability.

Looking to use her legal expertise to fight domestic violence, attorney Stephanie Nilva ’88 in 2003 launched the nonprofit organization Day One, which serves young people in New York City. She’s been its executive director since the beginning.

Hamilton students volunteered at more than 20 non-profit agencies in Oneida County for Make A Difference Day. The students provided a variety of services ranging from cleaning the Utica Children’s Museum, polishing the kitchen at Hope House, weeding the garden at Clinton Elementary School, and leading activities at Lutheran Care Nursing Home.

If you know Roz Chast’s cartoons, you know Roz Chast. You know she’s funny. And perceptive. And prone to outbursts of delicious quirk. You also know she’s every inch the Big Apple native, her New Yorker bona fides evident in her New Yorker cartoons — the streets, the subways, the apartments crammed with odd ducks and overstuffed couches. You know she doesn’t shy from the weirdness or kerfuffle of everyday life.

Participating in the Digestive Disease Summer Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital this summer has solidified Ishan Bhatia’s ’20 desire to conduct cancer research and attend medical school.

While students generally frequent the Clinton Farmer’s Market during the summer and at the beginning of the fall semester, few probably know the market and farming community like Haley Tietz ’19, who works there every Thursday. An employee at Common Thread Community Farm based in Madison, N.Y., Tietz has spent the few months since her graduation further immersing herself in local farm life.

The Hamilton College Department of Music starts of the semester with two faculty concerts in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The faculty artists of the Department of Music present the Fall Faculty Concert on Friday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p,m. This concert will feature solo performances by Sar-Shalom Strong, piano; Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Monk Rowe, saxophone; Tina Toglia, piano; Katie Martins, oboe; and others.

When most people stop by the baseball stadium over the summer, they find their seats, grab a hot dog, watch the game, and hope a foul ball flies their way. But when Justin Leigh ’20 goes to the stadium, he means business. Specifically, sales business.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College will present the work of contemporary Ethiopian artist Elias Sime (b. 1968) in an exhibition titled Elias Sime: Tightrope opening Saturday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Dec. 8.

This summer, Kelli Mackey ’20 is participating in an educational internship with St. Paul’s School. She helps teach summer boarding school students and supervises them outside of classes, developing her leadership and instruction capabilities.