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The Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy (HCSPiP) recently welcomed George Yancy to campus for a public lecture and discussion on “A Letter of Love: And the Return of White Backlash.” Yancy, a professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow in Residence at Dartmouth College, is one of the most influential thinkers today on critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, and the philosophy of race.

Six faculty members were approved for tenure by Hamilton’s Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The board awarded tenure to Katherine Brown (physics), Courtney Gibbons (mathematics), Gbemende Johnson (government), Alexandra List (psychology), Max Majireck (chemistry), and Seth Schermerhorn (religious studies).

The Sherman Fairchild Foundation has awarded a grant to Hamilton College for Immersive Experiences in Arts and Technology.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang was invited to give a talk to Chinese language and culture instructors in Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, on July 10.

For Natalie Halpin ’21, legal studies and the arts are not mutually exclusive, and in her internship with The Wardrobe Union (Local 764), she demonstrates just that.

Katherine Alcauskas, collections curator and exhibitions manager at the Wellin Museum of Art, recently participated in a professional workshop on “The Potential of Technical Studies and Conservation for Prints and Drawings Curatorship.”

Amy Glanzer ’21 and Holly Hutchinson ’21 both find chemistry challenging — and incredibly rewarding. They work 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as summer research assistants for Associate Professor of Chemistry Max Majireck.

Most people would agree that history should be accessible, and for Zhaosen Guo ’21, digitizing the past is the way to make that happen. He's spent the summer as a Digital Humanities Initiative research fellow.

Using skills she learned in a Hamilton first-year career development program, Fabiola (Faby) Alvarez ’22 secured two summer internships: teaching children how to dance and helping Japanese students learn English.