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In an email to the Hamilton community on Aug. 11, President David Wippman shared news of the death of life trustee David Mason ’61.

John Myles ’24 has now spent two summers in Utqiagvik, Alaska, a small city in northern Alaska with a dense and unique shorebird population. As part of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research team, he searched for shorebird nests, monitored chick hatches, and tagged adult birds.

Niamh McDade-Clay ’25 spent the summer as an intern at the New York State Division of Human Rights in its Rochester regional office. She was supported by Summer Internship Funding Committee and the Diversity and Social Justice Project Fund. Here she tells what drew her to this opportunity and how it fits with her future plans.

With apologies to the Bard, all the world’s a stage — and Yina Luo Moore ’03 is ensuring that professional performers have their forum in Adams, Mass.

In an email to the Hamilton community on Aug. 8, President David Wippman announced the death of John W. Chandler, the College’s 15th president.

Olivia Davis ’23 is an asset management operations summer analyst at Goldman Sachs. As she unravels financial information, she learns the nuances of fixed income insurance and bilateral products. They’re complicated concepts to understand — and even more complicated to manage — but she appreciates the challenge.

Should college presidents weigh in on hotly contested public controversies? In an essay titled “Speaking up about college presidents speaking out” published in The Hill, President David Wippman and his co-author, Cornell American Studies Professor Glenn Altschuler, addressed the question.

“The home” cannot be defined by one thing. As a place of significance to billions of people, it takes on different meanings in different contexts, transforming walls and floors into a dimensional concept that is ripe for philosophical study.

The world of chemists can be broadly divided into three groups: molecule modelers, measurers, and makers. Max Majireck, associate professor of chemistry and director of biochemistry, is a part of the third group. As he works to synthetically construct molecules, he lets new chemical developments guide him to discoveries with medical potential.

Hamilton College has joined 32 peer schools in signing an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in support of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina and the legality of a “race-conscious” admissions process.