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Associate Professor of East Asian Languages Zhuoyi Wang recently gave invited lectures and presented a webinar about the Chinese sci-fi film, The Wandering Earth (2019).

Susan MacTavish Best ’95 has found her niche in cultivating connections and spreading ideas. After more than two decades working in Silicon Valley public relations, this year she founded Posthoc, which she describes as a “petri dish for ideas and thought-leaders.”

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair - International Affairs and Professor of Government; Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown; Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas; Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill; Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Jane Springer; and Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner were honored.

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented to Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz ’82, Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams, and Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were announced at Hamilton’s annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 13, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, David Gagnidze ‘20 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Jonathan Stickel ’19 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Rebecca Loescher recently presented her research at an invited talk for Colgate University’s Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series.

Swedish electronic dance music duo Galantis was the headliner at the annual Class & Charter Day concert on May 10. A severe weather threat forced the concert indoors but that didn’t stop the student audience from appreciating the show.

Students in the Washington, D.C., Program recently spent some time at the Capitol where they visited with Rep. Anthony Brindisi of New York’s 22nd Congressional District.

Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890-1948 by Kevin Grant, the Edgar B. Graves Professor of History, was recently published by the University of California Press.

Students on the Hamilton NYC program were busy with a rather unusual activity last week - The NYC Rat Safari. Under the guidance of Dr. Robert ‘Bobby’ Corrigan, a world-renowned authority on urban rat behavior, we went around the city looking at rat habitats and learning more about these interesting creatures. Accompanying us was Matt Combs '13, now a graduate student in Biology at Fordham University; Dr. Corrigan is his thesis advisor.