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It was a pretty great winter-break job for a student of cinema: A Chicago musician hired Devin Mendelson ’22 to create videos for a website that remembers victims of the pandemic. As it turned out, his work was widely viewed.

Fr. Peter (Boutros) El Hachem will serve the Hamilton community this semester as Catholic chaplain. He is the pastor at St. Louis Gonzaga Maronite Church in Utica, where he’s been administrator since 2019, having come to the U.S. from his native Lebanon.

Time to grab a blanket, pop some popcorn, and curl up on the couch to enjoy a movie or TV show with a Hamilton connection!

Immediately after arriving on College Hill, students took their first tests of the spring semester — for COVID-19. After a period of quarantining, classes began on Feb. 1.

After graduation, Ade Sotinwa ’21 will have the opportunity to begin a new chapter of his professional career, expand his network, and gain myriad valuable experiences—all while enjoying much warmer weather.

Eseosa Asiruwa ’18 graduated from Hamilton into a job as a software engineer at Adobe, and now she reaches back to help students break into her field.

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund honored one of its original committee members by making a $5,000 grant to the Country Pantry in his memory.

Last fall, the College-Community Partnership for Racial Justice assembled a series of eight webinars focused on racial equity and police reform, sponsored by the Levitt Center Law and Justice Lab. Since then, the Partnership has collected and organized data from multiple surveys aimed at gauging public opinion on these issues. The results of these surveys were discussed in a virtual town hall on Feb. 11.

Associate Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson has received a $242, 810 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine what happens when a Freedom of Information request ends up in court.

A math major with an environmental studies minor, Rachel Pike ’21 saw data science as a natural combination of her interests, and a new course gave her a chance to confirm that. She enrolled in ENVST 206 Environmental Data Science.