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Alumna author Annie Hartnett ’08 returned to Hamilton for a reading of her novel Rabbit Cake on March 6. After her reading she sat down to talk about how Hamilton helped her find her voice as a writer.

“Public Philosophy Is Good—For Philosophy and For the Public,” co-authored by Todd Franklin, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Philosophy, recently appeared on the APA blog.

A panel sponsored by the Career Center’s Connect Team gave students the opportunity to learn first-hand about the career paths of three Hamilton alumni who had one thing in common — a passion for foreign languages and cultures.

Hamilton is one of a handful of academic institutions to offer its faculty and students an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer and two experts to operate it.

Hamilton College is among U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. students, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Top-producing institutions are highlighted annually in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley recently presented a lecture on “The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, & the Renaissance Invention of Race” at Harvard University.

Leading Change through Peer Conversations, a Title IX education and prevention program engineered by Title IX Education and Compliance Coordinator Cori Smith ’17 has been awarded the Gold NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Excellence Award for violence education and prevention, crisis management, and campus security. The program, which has been conducted since January 2018, has been engaging student groups through peer discussion and scenario-based role-playing.

Inspired an Introduction to Photography class last year, sophomore Amy Harff used her acquired skills to examine and document the different facets of food waste in her Adirondack Program independent research project this past fall

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Alexandra Plakias ’02 recently published a book titled Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction.

Hamilton's Oral Communication Center organized the annual Public Speaking Competition where students compete for more than $12,000 in prizes.