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A music major, Melo Albino ’20 commits himself to music studies during the school year. And as an intern for Red Roof Records, a broadcasting station and record label, he’s spent the summer continuing that commitment.

In January, three Hamilton students abandoned the frosty Upstate New York winter for the tropical climate of Nevis, the Caribbean birthplace of the College’s namesake Alexander Hamilton.

Associate Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Colin Quinn published chapters in the Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology.

From “Jam Camp” in Clinton to kayaking in the Adirondacks, Hamilton’s 61 orientation adventure trips helped ease members of the Class of ’23 into life at Hamilton. The five-day trips gave Hamilton’s newest students an opportunity to get to know their classmates and explore the area.

Assistant Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend and her colleagues sampled the blood cholesterol levels of 140 crow nestlings along an urban-to-rural gradient in California, returning to track their survival rates after they fledged. They found that the more urban the environment, the higher the blood cholesterol of the crow nestlings raised there.

Maggie Horne '19, who has a job teaching math to high school students, learned she wanted to be an educator through Hamilton's Community Outreach & Opportunity Project.

Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald' s book The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama, featuring interviews with avant-garde filmmakers, was recently published by Oxford University Press.

Her Hamilton-funded research project took her to Belize. Savannah Kelly ’21 looked at the effects of the Guatemala-Belize border dispute on Belize’s indigenous communities.

Nicholas Walters ’20 spent the summer conducting research about the impact of medieval and Renaissance music on more modern pieces. With the aid of his adviser, he will write an essay that reflects his research and academic interests.