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Twenty-five Hamilton students returned to campus a week early to participate in the 8th Levitt Leadership Institute (LLI). The focus of the weeklong program is understanding how teams and team leadership works.
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Hamilton’s Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center has joined the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP), a collaboration among 26 other colleges and universities that integrates classroom study of poverty with summer internships and co-curricular activities.
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Several faculty members and students were part of an all-Hamilton panel at the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference in Atlanta.
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A group of Hamilton students recently joined other students, faculty, and activists for the 2018 Seneca Falls Dialogues: “Race and Intersecting Feminist Futures.” Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar brought her class, “Indians, Aliens, and Others,” to the conference with support from a Social Innovation and Transformational Leadership Grant from the Levitt Center.
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The man is 60 years old when the state police show up at his door. He came to the U.K. in 1984 and lived there nearly 30 years, working first as a journalist and then as a plumber. He was invited here to work, his daughter was born in the country, and for a half a lifetime, this was the place where he made his home.
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Michael Klosson ’71, former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus and director of relief operations of Save the Children, will discuss “Children and the Refugee Crisis” on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 4:15 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ.
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As Ishan Mainali ’21 grew up in what he calls a “Kathmandu bubble” he only heard vague explanations for his homeland’s social and economic problems. Then he came to Hamilton and became involved in the Levitt Center’s Social Innovation Lab where his work finally gave him “the knowledge and vocabulary to think about social problems and ... potential innovative solutions.”
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Economics major Jesse Bennett ’19 is spending his summer analyzing the effects that various policies have on the diffusion of photovoltaic cells (solar panels) in the United States. The focus of his research is to contrast the effectiveness of production subsidies versus consumption subsidies.
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Kayla Self ’21 has been listening to her Puerto Rican mother speak Spanish at home since she was a child, but she didn’t get much practice speaking it herself. After enrolling in a few Spanish courses at Hamilton, she decided to take her oral communication skills to the next level.
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The Levitt Public Affairs Center’s Freedom of Expression Research Group is exploring the policies of institutions across the country including Hamilton's 1967 policy in order to make recommendations for revision.