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“We have been building bridges,” says Professor of Government Frank Anechiarico, who has been leading the College/Community Partnership for Racial Justice since its inception last summer.
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Due to the extended break between the fall and spring semesters, Hamilton’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center offered students the opportunity to spend the time conducting research. Some 39 students and 13 faculty-led groups – with an additional 40 students doing research as part of team – collaborated on a variety of projects that ranged from the philosophical endeavor of community-based teaching to militarized policing and political stability.
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While COVID-19 may have changed the way we work, socialize, and learn, problem solvers like Patricia Shiebler ’21 have tapped their creativity to make the most out of the challenging “new normal” created by the pandemic.
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Twelve Hamilton students joined Nichols in developing and delivering weekly lessons exploring age-appropriate topics in philosophy with groups of Clinton elementary and middle school students.
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Thinking it presented an opportunity, Assistant Professor of Sociology Alex Manning alerted students in his Sports and Society course to an upcoming conference sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society, and Social Change. The institute, a project of the University of San Jose, was inviting undergraduate and grad students to submit recorded presentations for the November remote conference.
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Erica Ivins ’21 first read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in a high school AP class, and it became her favorite book. She carried that interest with her to Hamilton, where her research into the novel earned a prestigious prize in the undergraduate essay contest.
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For their summer research project Emnet Sisay ’22 and Mckela Kanu ’22 decided to create a podcast rather than a paper so their work would be more accessible. That’s how they discovered how hard it is to create a podcast, even with support. But it was worth it.
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As a math major considering a graduate degree in applied mathematics, it didn’t take Summer Sheng '21 long to realize that a pandemic-based project would be relevant to the emerging crisis and to him personally.
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In 2019, Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie and Photography and Digital Imagery Specialist Marianita Peaslee visited Nevis, Alexander Hamilton’s birthplace, with three students to begin the process of digitizing historical documents. The manuscripts are now available online.
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What if artificial intelligence machines could learn from each other? Or talk to each other, without human input? That’s what Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Perkins and his research group are exploring this summer.
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