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Hamilton College is among U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. students, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Top-producing institutions are highlighted annually in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley recently presented a lecture on “The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, & the Renaissance Invention of Race” at Harvard University.

Leading Change through Peer Conversations, a Title IX education and prevention program engineered by Title IX Education and Compliance Coordinator Cori Smith ’17 has been awarded the Gold NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Excellence Award for violence education and prevention, crisis management, and campus security. The program, which has been conducted since January 2018, has been engaging student groups through peer discussion and scenario-based role-playing.

Inspired an Introduction to Photography class last year, sophomore Amy Harff used her acquired skills to examine and document the different facets of food waste in her Adirondack Program independent research project this past fall

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alexandra Plakias ’02 recently published a book titled Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction.

Hamilton's Oral Communication Center organized the annual Public Speaking Competition where students compete for more than $12,000 in prizes.

Despite what team captain Jay Carhart ’21 describes as “a strange year for Hamilton curling,” the team is headed for the USA Curling College Championship March 8 to 12 in Wayland, Mass.

“Abandoned Factory in Utica,” an oil painting by Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead, is included in an exhibition at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) in Utica, N.Y.

One of Ferdous Dehqan’s earliest memories is one of fear. He recalls holding hands with his mother while walking past a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan. “What if they stop us?” he thought to himself. “What if they hit my mother?” Dehqan is one of five young Muslims participating in an interview-based theater production —“Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity”— which focuses on their experiences both before and after the morning of September 11, 2001.

Engaged Philosophy, a website highlighting what is sometimes called experiential philosophy, interviewed Russell Marcus, associate professor of philosophy.