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Freeman Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), will deliver Hamilton College’s 2019 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 26, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

Hamilton College is among U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. students, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Top-producing institutions are highlighted annually in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Hamilton's Oral Communication Center organized the annual Public Speaking Competition where students compete for more than $12,000 in prizes.

Despite what team captain Jay Carhart ’21 describes as “a strange year for Hamilton curling,” the team is headed for the USA Curling College Championship March 8 to 12 in Wayland, Mass.

Tsion Tesfaye ’16 has been selected as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University. Knight-Hennessy Scholars receive full funding for graduate study at Stanford. The program aims to develop an interdisciplinary community of future global leaders to address the world’s most complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.

Among the biggest fans for this weekend’s men’s hockey NESCAC playoffs will be volunteers from Arc, an organization for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The volunteers, who come to campus on Thursdays to help out with the Athletic Department, have formed a special bond with members of Hamilton’s men’s hockey team.

Six Hamilton juniors have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad during the spring 2019 semester.

Three Continentals teams will be hosting championship round games the weekend of Feb. 23 to 24. Men’s basketball, women’s hockey, and men’s hockey earned hosting rights after big victories last weekend.

Robert Moses ’56, one of the most influential black leaders of the civil rights struggle, founder of The Algebra Project, Inc., and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, will return to Hamilton for a four-day visit and full slate of activities from Feb. 18 to 21.

Kayla Self ’21, a member of the women’s volleyball team, recently attended the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2019 convention in Orlando, Fla. The NCAA is a member-led organization dedicated to the well-being and lifelong success of college athletes. Hamilton is a member of the NCAA’s Division III.