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Michael Klosson ’71, former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus and director of relief operations of Save the Children, will discuss “Children and the Refugee Crisis” on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.

Over fall break, Hamilton College hosted an intensive two-day seminar called “Wall Street Prep: Accounting & Financial Modeling Liberal Arts Boot Camp.” This program is made free to students by the generosity of Hamilton alumnus Howard Morgan '84 in honor of the Alexander Hamilton Institute.

Lauren Cupp rose from third place to the top slot in the World Championships held at Turning Stone Resort on Monday, Oct. 15.

Manal Ataya ’01 has been awarded the Chevaliers de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the ambassador of France to the UAE. The Knights of the Order of Arts and Letters is an award presented by the French ministry of culture.

One of the benefits of Hamilton's Washington, D.C. program is the ability to connect with Hamilton College’s vast alumni network in the capital. Taking advantage of this, the D.C. program students recently met with Matthew Zeller ’04. Zeller is the founder and CEO of No One Left Behind.

Christopher Wilkinson ’68 is the coauthor of a new book about West Virginia’s geology called Roadside Geology of West Virginia. Joseph G. Lebold, a geologist and professor at West Virginia University, cowrote the book with Wilkinson, and Maria af Rolén, a graduate of Stockholm School of Photography, provided the book’s photographs.

Elise LePage ’18 earned national recognition as a finalist for the American Physical Society’s 2018 LeRoy Apker Award. The award recognizes undergraduate students for outstanding achievements in physics.

When Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph ’81 first pitched the idea that would one day become the worldwide streaming service to his wife, she told him: “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Cyrus Boga ?90 recently returned to Hamilton College to speak to students as part of his Levitt Center Workshop series, “Novamaya- Designing a Social Innovation Project.”

Tarik Desire ’18, an Africana studies major, has just finished a five-month immersion program for software development. He answered three questions for us about his time at Hamilton and about his future.