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A soft glow filled campus on Feb. 3 as the Hamilton community honored the Black Lives Matter movement through a virtual vigil. The event, which kicked off Black History Month, featured ice and paper bag luminarias that were lighted and placed outside the Days-Massolo Center, the Chapel, and Sadove Student Center.

Hamilton basketball all-American Kena Gilmour ’20 was selected the recipient of the 2020 Division III LGBTQ Student-Athlete of the Year Award on Jan. 13.

Riki Borders ’23 spent his earliest years in Japan, then moved to the U.S. Hamilton's open curriculum gives him the opportunity to pursue computer science and Japanese studies.

Although we have all faced the same pandemic and adapted to our own forms of isolation, we each have felt and experienced the past nine months in our own way. Debuted on Dec. 11, the visual, choral Twenty / Twenty project gives viewers a glimpse into both the individual and the collective, drawing from personal responses to COVID-19 in a collaborative and socially distant way.

How does a service internship program provide service during a pandemic? If you’re a COOP (Community Outreach and Opportunity Project) service intern you adjust, adapt, and take to Zoom. And then you expand programming to engage other Hamilton students eager to take on volunteering.

Each Thursday afternoon, Abigail Moone ’22 can be found on the third floor of the Chapel. Following social distancing guidelines, a dozen or so students sit in a circle and wait for Moone to begin the meeting. She reads a poem from the student literary publication Red Weather and sets a reflective mood that continues for the next 20 minutes.

Tucked away in the Taylor Science Center’s greenhouse, a new aquaponics system brims with tilapia, lettuce, and other developing life. Built in 2019 by Hamilton’s Aquaponics Club, the system promotes on-campus food sustainability while also providing a space for students and faculty to learn about aquaponics. And with its accessibility, regular maintenance, and potential to expand with student interest, the system does just that.

Shay Lashgari ’24 often says that the things she cares about most are basic human rights and needs — two things that influenced both her probable major and the work she did during gap years before enrolling at Hamilton this fall.

On Thanksgiving, Hamilton students share their gratitude with staff members who not only kept the campus clean and safe, but brightened their days and kept them fed during the first semester.