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Will Whalen’23 is a mild-mannered world politics major by day, but master of the mean, meowing Chess bot Mittens by night. Whalen, who moonlighted at Chess.com as a creative strategy lead while on campus, had the idea to create the cute kitty chess master that played an aggressive game of chess. Mittens has proven to be a formidable and frustrating opponent on the Chess.com website. Whalen will join Chess.com as director of audience development after graduation.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Rachel White and Kate Bruno ’23 recently presented a poster at the Society for Research in Child Development conference in Salt Lake City.
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Retired Navy Adm. Michelle J. Howard will deliver Hamilton’s 2023 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 21, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Howard chaired the 2020-22 Congressional Naming Commission that identified and made recommendations to remove, rename, or modify Department of Defense assets that commemorated the Confederacy or those who voluntarily served it.
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In its second meeting of the 2022-23 academic year, the Hamilton chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 15 members of the Class of 2023.
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In its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year, the Hamilton Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 10 members of the Class of 2023.
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Senior class president Felix Tager ’23 spent a busy summer in Washington, D.C., pursuing two internships. He worked with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s (PCRM) nutrition program and ran communications for Yadira Caraveo, the Democratic House of Representative nominee for the new Colorado district (CO-8).
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Professor of Mathematics Sally Cockburn and Sean McAvoy ’23 worked on a research project exploring what happens when graph automorphisms that are usually applied to vertices are instead applied to edges.
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Qian Ren ’23 knows the value of a liberal arts education. An environmental studies and economics double major, she has fostered interdisciplinary skills that she hopes to use in the field of climate finance. This emerging field aims to support climate actions by drawing on public, private, and alternative sources of funding, according to the United Nations. But before she enters the profession, Ren has her eyes set on an MBA as a means to increase preparedness for her prospective career.
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Olivia Davis ’23 is an asset management operations summer analyst at Goldman Sachs. As she unravels financial information, she learns the nuances of fixed income insurance and bilateral products. They’re complicated concepts to understand — and even more complicated to manage — but she appreciates the challenge.
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Assistant Professor of Art History Nadya Bair, recently published a feature article in American Art and launched an updated website related to her book about Magnum Photos.
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