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During his time at Hamilton, Jonathan Michel ’13 proved himself to be highly motivated and organized. A four-year starter on the offensive line of the football team, he also found time to play club hockey and serve as the chair of the Judicial Board. Michel describes balancing his extracurricular commitments with coursework as “an exercise in discipline and time management.” He put those skills to good use and applied for dental school beginning directly after Hamilton.
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It might sound surprising, but studying two neurotransmitters found in drosophila, a genus of small flies, may help us better understand human brain chemistry. While most people may not regularly think about neurotransmitters in our brains, these chemicals are the stimuli behind our frustrations when stuck in traffic or our elevated stress levels when facing a seemingly never-ending pile of assignments. Ashley Perritt ’14 and Niko Wagner ’14 are studying tyramine beta hydroxylase (TBh) and TBh-Related (TBhR) neurotransmitter genes in drosophila to better understand their functions.
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Hamilton Against Hunger, a program started by Hamilton College men's lacrosse alum Corbin Brown '11 in 2009, was included in a recent Huffington Post article titled "Twenty Athletes Who Are Changing the Way We Eat".
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In its quarterly Education Life section published on Aug. 4, The New York Times featured Bret Turner ’13 and his goal of interviewing every faculty member on campus about their research. According to the article, by the time he graduated, he had spoken with 200 of 223 faculty members, a half-hour to an hour each.
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Two Hamilton College football players have been selected to the 2013 USA Football Network Division III Preseason All-America Team.
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Two Hamilton College women's lacrosse alumnae were recently named assistant coaches at NCAA Division III programs that happen to be members of the Centennial Conference.
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Hamilton College's indoor and outdoor track and field teams have been honored by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for academic performance.
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When an average customer walks into a mall or grocery store, he or she probably doesn’t think about the planning and strategy that goes on behind the scenes to meet the needs of both companies and consumers. Rachel Friedman ’13, however, will be concentrating on just those aspects of retail as she begins a job as an analyst at Kantar Retail.
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Hamilton College men's crew alum Willy Cowles '09 (Farmington, Conn.) raced for the U.S. in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2013 Samsung World Rowing Cup #3 in Lucerne, Switzerland, which was held from July 12 to July 14.
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Associate Professor of Chemistry Ian Rosenstein attended the National Organic Symposium from June 25-28 at the University of Washington in Seattle. This biennial conference, held by the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, features invited talks on cutting edge research in all aspects of organic chemistry plus several hundred poster presentations.
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