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Over her four years at Hamilton, Sophia Wang has done it all. With classes in math, history, languages, economics, and art, Wang’s liberal arts education sparked her passion for independent research and eventually lead her down the path toward a senior fellowship.

Hamilton is working with public radio's StoryCorps on a new initiative, One Small Step, to solicit community members in the Mohawk Valley and Hamilton students who hold opposing views to participate in a one-hour, facilitated, and recorded conversation to get to know each other a bit as people.

Gillian King, a business executive with broad experience in finance-based decision making, operations, human resources, and organizational management, has been named chief of staff and secretary to the Board of Trustees at Hamilton College.

Nine Hamilton students traveled to Kure Beach, N. C., over winter break to help community members clean up houses that still have damage from Hurricane Florence. The Alternative Winter Break service trip worked with Community Collaborations International. Students built a fence for a horse pasture, cleaned out flooded shelves, packed belongings prior to house renovations, and dug a trench to help with rainwater drainage.

He began with a piece of advice spoken by Prophet Muhammad: Have your heart be where your feet are. Omid Safi is director of the Islamic Studies Center and professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, specializing in contemporary Islamic thought and Islamic spirituality. He visited Hamilton on Jan 23 to discuss “Radical Love: Rumi as an Islamic Voice of Divine Love” as a part of Spirituality 101, a week of programs to deepen the Hamilton community’s spiritual understanding.

Two years ago during her summer break, Christine Walsh ’20 interned for Benjamin Blake, mayor of her hometown, Milford, Conn. This past fall semester, after sustaining a concussion prior to the start of classes, she thought she would be stuck at home, recovering and then waiting for the next semester to begin. She had no idea that she would be returning to work with Blake, this time, with her own office. After all – the assistant mayor would need an office.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President David Wippman, Dean of Students Terri Martinez and leaders of the Days-Massolo Center hosted “We Are His Dream,” an event to make a conscious effort as a community to keep King’s vision alive.

“Don’t be afraid what your first job is, because it won’t be your career or your last job,” said one alumnus, pointing out his transition from a business analyst to an architect. The sentiment was reiterated throughout the NYC Immersion Trip, as students saw how Hamilton’s liberal arts education and network prepared them for diverse career choices after college.

The assignment, layered with challenges, united students from two courses: Advanced Video and Introduction to Music, Sound, and Technology. Professor of Art Ella Gant, who teaches the video course, dubbed the project “Drone on Drone.”

A paper titled “A phylogenomic resolution of the sea urchin tree of life,” co-authored by Scholar-in-Residence Simon Coppard, was recently published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.