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On any long-distance trek, the path climbs, dips, and turns, as Robin Dropkin K’74 P ’05 ’09 has experienced during her 25 years at the nonprofit Parks & Trails New York, based in Albany. Dropkin is the longtime executive director, leading efforts to support state parks and trails in lean times and in fatter ones.

While researching a project about Mrs. Frank Leslie, a 19th-century publisher who bequeathed her fortune to a leading suffragist, journalist Elaine Weiss K’73, P’07 encountered a rivulet of history she couldn’t resist. Mrs. Leslie’s story was big and bold — fabulous wealth, business success, notorious love life — but Weiss followed the rivulet.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave two presentations at the Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Noelani Stevenson ’19 starts training for her new job in July. Exercises will include physical training, accent training, and combat training. By August, she will have improved her sword fighting, cockney accent, and fortunetelling abilities, preparing her for her job’s main event.

A paper by Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Tiao-Guan Huang was recently published in the Taiwan Journal of Chinese as a Second Language.

Hamilton College Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen announced the death of Professor of Chemistry Emeritus Leland “Bud” Cratty Jr. in an email to the Hamilton community on May 30.

Religious studies majors Phoebe Duke-Mosier ’19 and Estella Brenneman ’20 recently presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion.

A Chronicle of Higher Education article provides a detailed look at Hamilton’s use of digital technology in the classroom.

“The River and Back,” a poem by Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman, was recently published in The Briar Cliff Review.

Twelve members of the Class of 2019 were recently initiated into the Hamilton College Chapter of Sigma Xi, the international research honor society for science and engineering.