News

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. April’s news topics included coverage of former President Obama’s visit to Hamilton as well as subjects from diversity on bank boards to a new Levitt Center study on gun violence.

A constellation of affinities and engagement keeps Peggy Malloy Garte ’01’s heart on the Hill.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. March’s news topics included varied subjects from gambling during March Madness to a possible third term for President Donald Trump.

For Karthik Ravishankar ’19, his five-year reunion in 2024 was a uniquely enjoyable experience. The intervening years saw his classmates diverge in their paths in life and then converge again on the campus they so recently called home.

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, recently presented at the University of Colorado at Boulder with Andrew Wei ’20 and former Hamilton professor Judit Temesvary.

Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite K’74 is 72 and she’s good with that. The Decade of Healthy Ageing, a U.N. collaboration with the World Health Organization, recently honored her as one of its Healthy Ageing 50.

Fabulous — that’s the word Nanelle Napp K’74 uses to describe the Alumni Colleges and author talks presented by her classmates at their 50th reunion in 2024. Napp has always learned and taken inspiration from fellow Kirkland women, from her first semester at the College to her reunions and beyond.

Individuality. Creativity. Collaboration. Dependence. To Charlie Ratner ’23, lacrosse has always provided the perfect blend of striving for success both as an individual and working together as a cohesive team. These qualities have been the building blocks of Ratner’s life; in fact, he describes his lacrosse stick as an inherent part of his very being.

Cosmo Castellano ’74, P’11 is committed to keeping his class connected. In addition to his involvement in planning class reunions, including serving as co-chair for his 50th reunion committee, Castellano and classmates started facilitating regular online gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Samantha Koss ’95 has attended Reunions every year since Hamilton’s bicentennial in 2012, and by now, she has packing for the weekend down to a science. And her packing list isn’t the only thing that stays consistent.