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New student orientation begins this week, and more than 100 student trip leaders are ready to welcome the newest Hamiltonians. The upcoming week of introductions and new experiences will lay the foundation for the first-year students’ Hamilton career as they embark on Adirondack Adventure, Exploration Adventure, and Outreach Adventure trips.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival attracts thousands of people from all over the world each August. Known as the largest arts and culture festival in the world, the Fringe Festival comprises free and paid performances and occupies a myriad of venues in Edinburgh, Scotland. The festival likewise features performances by big names in comedy and theatre, most notably Jojo Rinehart-Jones ’20.

A solo exhibition featuring paintings by Professor of Art Katharine Kuharic will open on Aug. 20 at the Shircliff Gallery of Art at Vincennes University in Indiana.

It’s more than a job perk for Lauren Broadhurst Cook ’03 that the two floors below her office are populated by infants, toddlers, and sundry other children. She’s heading toward her first year anniversary as chief executive officer of Ellis, a nonprofit early education program on Boston’s South End.

This summer, Haruna Shimizu ’21 is interning at Columbia University Medical Center. There, she furthers her science writing abilities while learning about new developments in the medical world.

With a grant from Hamilton, Zachary Deming ’20 spent a summer immersed in an academic passion he expects he'll carry with him into grad school or whatever comes after College.

Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi was a member of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) investigative committee that reviewed reports of violations of academic governance at Vermont Law School.

As a premed student Maya Amy ’20 has spent hours immersed in science research, including a summer of teamwork with Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs and other students. That resulted in Amy being listed among the co-authors on a scholarly paper. This summer, she’s working on research that requires a new set of skills.

Tessa Lavan ’20 spends most of her days in Lourdes, France, stationed at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, observing the people who pass through the Sanctuary and near the Grotto, a Catholic shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas received an honorable mention for the ASA Sociology of Religion Section’s 2019 Distinguished Book Award.