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Four Library and Information Technology Services staff members recently presented at the annual Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) Conference.

During the COVID-19 quarantine, Kristen Eignor DiCerbo ’95 foresaw the impact of technology in education. “There was a huge increase in usage as teachers and learners looked for online tools,” says DiCerbo, chief learning officer for the Khan Academy.

Fueled by a dual passion for production value and the Middle Ages, Ryan Mayhan ’22 created a video about how cartographers created ideological maps of the medieval mind.

For more than 20 years, Jeff McMahon ’97 has been part of an entrepreneurial trio that successfully launches start-ups, swapping an occasional Hamilton story en route. His classmates Nick Laidlaw and Robert Naughton round out the partnership.

Library Information Technology Services (LITS) has awarded Innovations in Digital Pedagogy Fellowships for the 2021-22 academic year to three faculty members: Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lacey Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Sociology Alex Manning, and Associate Professor of Biology Michael McCormick.

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.

Within the first five minutes of our conversation, art major Luke Bernard ’21 admitted that he does not consider himself to be good at art. The creative aspect, he clarifies. He approaches art from a technical standpoint — he can’t paint or draw, but give him a topic and a camera, and he’ll be fine, he said.

Convinced of the importance of digital technologies to the future of Hamilton and its students, two alumni with careers in finance each have endowed a professorship in computer science, a major boost for a department with a growing enrollment.

Lisa McFall, associate director, metadata and digital initiatives in LITS, published a chapter in Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers, recently released by Indiana University Press.

To all you majors in history, sociology, literature, economics, Africana studies, and sundry other subjects — welcome to Computer Science 101.