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  • 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.

  • Judy Zhou ’19 and her virtual reality project that is focused on empathy is one illustration of how digital technology is integrated across campus, a key priority of the College's Because Hamilton campaign.

  • David Solomon '84 and Thomas Tull '92 gave a Hamilton audience a glimpse of their first-hand insights into the ways new technologies have revolutionized business and finance and what might come next.

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  • It was a chance to spend quality time on campus with an ultra-successful Hamilton graduate, and computer science major Grace Woolson ’21 took a front-and-center seat for a classroom question-and-answer session with Thomas Tull ’92, who founded and led Legendary Entertainment.

  • It’s a research-based love match, and Kathryn Kearney ’21 is about to make it official with the College Registrar. After much deliberation, she’s declaring American studies as her major.

  • Achievement. Ambition. American Dream. Capitalism. Free Competition. Free Enterprise. Maybe the most challenging part of the research for Andrew Wei ’20 was constructing the dictionary of terms he would use to mine Google News data. But on the trail of research, Wei is seemingly unstoppable. He created a dictionary of not the typical one or two search terms but 38. That brought him some 30,000 data sets with which to work.

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  • At first, you hear just a voice. The screen is black, then fills with the pink-purple-blue motion of an otherworldly night sky. From the bottom of the screen, a solitary figure in a hoodie rises, back to the camera, to speak the next line of his spoken-word poem. It’s Sacharja Cunningham ’19.

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  • To set foot in India’s Vishnupada temple, the most important site in the sacred city of Gaya, is to absorb a sense of place and purpose. With its niches, shrines, and statues, the temple is rich with information, and every object tells a story about Gaya’s complex history. This is why Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar wants students in his Dying, Death, and Afterlife course to experience Vishnupada inside and out.

  • Barbara Stein K’72 is one of 10 individuals who used College Hill as a launching pad, and who are championing new ideas, challenging old conventions, pushing boundaries, and, in doing so, advancing their professions.

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  • Government and theatre majors in hand, Niels Lesniewski ’07 launched his career in political journalism just in time for the 2008 financial crisis. After he took a job at Roll Call, in Washington, D.C., the first big Senate story he covered was the crash and the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was meant to stabilize the financial system and economy.

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