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Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were announced at Hamilton’s annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 13, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, David Gagnidze ‘20 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Jonathan Stickel ’19 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Rebecca Loescher recently presented her research at an invited talk for Colgate University’s Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series.

Swedish electronic dance music duo Galantis was the headliner at the annual Class & Charter Day concert on May 10. A severe weather threat forced the concert indoors but that didn’t stop the student audience from appreciating the show.

Students in the Washington, D.C., Program recently spent some time at the Capitol where they visited with Rep. Anthony Brindisi of New York’s 22nd Congressional District.

Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890-1948 by Kevin Grant, the Edgar B. Graves Professor of History, was recently published by the University of California Press.

Students on the Hamilton NYC program were busy with a rather unusual activity last week - The NYC Rat Safari. Under the guidance of Dr. Robert ‘Bobby’ Corrigan, a world-renowned authority on urban rat behavior, we went around the city looking at rat habitats and learning more about these interesting creatures. Accompanying us was Matt Combs '13, now a graduate student in Biology at Fordham University; Dr. Corrigan is his thesis advisor.

Madeline Carlman ’19 has been awarded the college’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Creating Community in Book Places.” She’ll examine how book places such as libraries, book shops, book clubs, and book fairs work to create community.

Samantha D'Angelo ’21 has been awarded a Coccia Foundation Scholarship for study in Italy. She is a physics major and Italian and history minor who plans to pursue her passions for Italian language and culture by studying in Taormina, Sicily, through the API Babilonia Institute Program.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley recently presented classics lectures at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference and Wake Forest University.