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Hamilton will celebrate its Class of 2020 graduates with an in-person Commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 4, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Marc Randolph ’81, co-founder of the online steaming service Netflix, will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree.

Twenty Hamilton students plus staff spent spring break hiking to the base camp of Annapurna in Nepal’s Himalaya. It’s an optional part of Professor Maurice Isserman’s course History of the Himalayan Mountaineering. Seniors Keeley Duran and Catherine McFarland are sharing periodic updates of the experience.

Hamilton College’s Alternative Break (AXB) service trips returned this year for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, with three student groups spending their time away from campus helping communities in North Carolina, Ohio, and Delaware.

Arianna Robertson ’23 recently presented her Emerson grant research project at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention.

After previously serving as an intern, Elizabeth “Tatie” Summers ’22 will continue her work with the Brastianos lab at Massachusetts General Cancer Center as a full-time research technician after graduation.

It was a big and historic win for Hamilton’s Mock Trial team as a successful outing at the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) resulted in a bid to the national Collegiate Mock Trial competition.

Jeremy Gordon ’22 will participate in a one-year teacher preparation program, while simultaneously obtaining an accelerated master’s in education from Lesley University.

When Wyn Pennybacker '19 was evacuated from Ukraine to Poland by her Fulbright program because of the Russia-Ukraine war, she continued to engage the students she had been teaching and took every opportunity to volunteer locally to help Ukrainian refugees.

For Rashveena Rajaram ’16, the world is indeed her oyster. Born and raised in the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, the Harvard Business School M.B.A. student and women’s financial podcast co-founder discovered her life’s work when she first ventured to Hamilton in 2012.

Sophia Ficarro ’22 will enroll at SUNY Upstate Medical University after graduation. She talks here about how her experiences at Hamilton prepared her for this path.