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Vice President of Administration and Finance Karen Leach announced that Mike Klapmeyer will join Hamilton on August 1 as the College’s new associate vice president for facilities and planning.

The Alumni Council nominated and elected three alumni trustees to serve on the Board of Trustees for four-year terms beginning July 1. They are Kathleen Corsi ’82, P’23, Monique Lui Holloway ’87, P’14,’18, and Marc Randolph ’80. In addition, John Christopher ’83, P’14 was elected president of the Alumni Association for a two-year term.

As Fiona Murphy ’23 creates her comics, she pulls her mental state into the physical world. Each blurred line or harsh impression is purposeful, constructed to evoke a certain psychological experience: gender dysphoria, body dysmorphia, or sleep deprivation.

Neuroscience, Dance, Mathematics, Music. Recent graduates Toscana Ogihara ’22 and Anthony Christiana ’22 took this unlikely combination of majors and collaborated on creating an original score for Ogihara’s dance thesis.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. Here are the second quarter’s news coverage highlights.

In 2019, a team of Hamilton College staff and students traveled to the island of Nevis, birthplace of the College’s namesake Alexander Hamilton, to collaborate with staff members from the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society.  A team returned in June to continue work on the project.

Andy Jian ’23 explores the question: what happens to the environment in a closed system?

Striving for justice reform is the mission of Robert Sand ’80, a professor at Vermont Law School, who also holds the title of high bailiff of Windsor County, Vt.

“…The constantly expanding and contracting scope of the federal mandate creates confusion, uncertainty, and expense,” wrote President David Wippman in a co-authored essay published in The Hill.

The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium, of which Hamilton College is a member, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the Mellon Foundation to create the NY6 Mellon Academic Leadership Fellows Program, a three-year program to provide an intensive leadership experience for faculty in the humanities who aspire to academic leadership roles.