Stories
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Paula Ortiz ’18 will explore practices of active meditation in India, Japan, New Zealand, and Bolivia next year as the recipient of a Watson Fellowship.
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Audrey Nadler ’18 is eager to return to Spain after graduation as the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA). She spent her junior year abroad in Madrid with Hamilton's Academic Year in Spain program. She is a world politics and Hispanic studies major.
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Philosophy major Carter Sanders ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Malaysia.
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Allison Zuckerman ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. A history and German studies major at Hamilton, she studied at the University of Munich in 2016-17.
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Rachel Alatalo ’18 will combine a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship with an independent research project in Argentina following her graduation from Hamilton in May.
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What does it mean to have “equal access” to higher education in different cultures? Kureem Nugent ’18, recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship intends to spend the next year answering just that. He said his experience at a small liberal arts college as a first-generation student will lead him to explore how cultural capital plays a role in the path to higher education.
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Deasia Hawkins ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. She studied abroad in Germany during the 2016-17 academic year and says she “looks forward to returning and immersing myself once again in the culture and history Germany has to offer.”
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History major Elza Harb ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Cyprus.
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The serendipitous discovery of a passion for computer science has opened many doors for Eseosa Asiruwa ’18, who will head to Adobe to become a software engineer in tools after graduation. “I’ll be helping to build the software that releases new software and updates to the digital imaging operations Adobe has. Photoshop and Illustrator, work like that,” she explained.
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Kureem Nugent ’18, Isabel O'Malley ’18, Paula Ortiz ’18, and Marquis Palmer ’18 have been named Watson Fellows providing them a $30,000 stipend to pursue a “year of independent, purposeful exploration” abroad. Although students from 40 peer schools are eligible to receive these awards, no other school had more than three recipients this year.