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After a semester in Madrid last year through Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain, Sabrina Boutselis ’19 fell in love with Spanish culture and became fascinated with the growing emphasis on Spanish-English bilingual education. As a result, she applied for and was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Galicia, Spain.

Peuo Tuy, an award-winning Khmer-American modern poet, told her story, “Past, Present, Future Refugee Experience in America,” to a group of students in the SHINE program classes working with Associate Professor of Russian John Bartle and Britt Hysell, director of the ESOL program, on April 5.

Assistant Professor of French Claire Mouflard recently presented the research for her upcoming manuscript titled The “Black-Blanc-Beur” Utopia: Publishing Practices and Identity Formation in Metropolitan French Women Writing (1998-2005) at Penn State University as part of the French and Francophone Studies Graduate Organization's lecture series.

The sixth annual Animal Rescue Law Forum, organized by Kevan Cleary P’12 and Tami Aisenson K’75 from New York County Lawyers Association, took place on March 14 in New York City. Each year, Hamilton students work as social media/communication interns to help promote the event.

The weather at Hamilton. Students and alumni talk about it all the time, and others wonder what it’s really like on campus. Watch this video to see what students say about the seasons here on the Hill.

The Hamilton community warmly welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen on April 9 as part of the Winton Tolles Lecture Series. A group of students and faculty members joined Nguyen for dinner in the Philip Spencer House to talk before convening in the Chapel for his presentation titled “Refugee Stories and American Greatness.”

Nanaka Suzuki ‘20 is spending her semester in Hamilton’s Washington, D.C., Program interning for Search For Common Ground’s Production Team. Search For Common Ground is a non-profit that works to resolve foreign conflicts through peaceful dialogue and discussion. Although peacemaking might not get as much public attention as more visible approaches such as protesting, it has contributed to many examples of slow yet sustainable social change in conflict-ridden countries.

Upstate New York is birthplace of the women’s rights movement and continues to live up to its legacy today. On April 8, New York State Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul visited campus to confirm her commitment to the state’s mission and share the 2019 Women’s Justice Agenda.

Take a virtual tour of the Johnson Center for Health and Wellness, a new building in the heart of campus that allows the College to provide personal service to students in one shared space.

Associate Director for Digital Learning and Research Nhora Lucía Serrano recently published a book chapter on “Columbia and the Editorial Cartoon” in The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies.