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Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, will deliver Hamilton College’s 2018 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.
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What does it mean to have “equal access” to higher education in different cultures? Kureem Nugent ’18, recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship intends to spend the next year answering just that. He said his experience at a small liberal arts college as a first-generation student will lead him to explore how cultural capital plays a role in the path to higher education.
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Deasia Hawkins ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. She studied abroad in Germany during the 2016-17 academic year and says she “looks forward to returning and immersing myself once again in the culture and history Germany has to offer.”
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Plastic tablecloths, can tabs, and foam packing material took on a new life in the form of a dress for 2018 Sustainability Trashion Show winner Sarah Magee ’18.
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The Hamilton choir’s annual spring break tour took on a new element this year with volunteer community service work in addition to choral performances.
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History major Elza Harb ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Cyprus.
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Hamilton has announced recipients of the 2018 Emerson Summer Grants. Created in 1997, the Emerson Foundation Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. Twenty-six Hamilton students and 26 faculty members will work on the following projects this summer. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the next academic year.
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Hamilton students are heading back to campus after spring break with tales of mountain climbing in Nepal, hiking the Shenandoah National Park with the Outing Club, and volunteering with Alternative Spring Break. But there’s no time for a post-spring break letdown because the college calendar is loaded with lectures, performances, and events from now until the end of the semester.
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More than 50 Hamilton students are forgoing warm beaches and powdery slopes to lend a hand to others through the 25th annual Alternative Spring Break (ASB). ASB is a volunteer venture that consists of five different community service trips this year.
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Amari Leigh ’21 has been named a 2018 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education.