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As part of Hamilton’s annual Feb Fest celebration, the Hamilton Outing Club led six students on a winter camping trip in the Kirkland Glen.
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It was a pretty great winter-break job for a student of cinema: A Chicago musician hired Devin Mendelson ’22 to create videos for a website that remembers victims of the pandemic. As it turned out, his work was widely viewed.
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Immediately after arriving on College Hill, students took their first tests of the spring semester — for COVID-19. After a period of quarantining, classes began on Feb. 1.
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The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund honored one of its original committee members by making a $5,000 grant to the Country Pantry in his memory.
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Emily Rivito ’21 spent her winter break revisiting high school, from phys ed to physics, this time on the assigning end of homework. When an administrator at her alma mater put out a call for substitute teachers, Rivito stepped up.
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Students in this fall’s Forever Wild: Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondack Park explored the social, political, and environmental issues and debates within the largest state park in the U.S. and presented their thoughts and findings online. Taught by Onno Oerlemans, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of Literature, the course gave students a closer look at the geologic and conservation marvel that, in a non-pandemic semester, provides recreation and adventuring opportunities to many Hamilton students.
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Based on both institutions’ methods for success, President David Wippman and Cornell Professor of American Studies Glenn Altschuler co-authored an essay outlining key lessons learned in the process in an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed.
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From climate change to Title IX, from coups to international recruitment, faculty have presented their views in major news outlets throughout the year.
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As students and faculty adapted to new ways of learning and teaching, hundreds of staff members worked behind the scenes this semester to ensure that campus operated as smoothly and safely as possible.
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What did it take for Hamilton to successfully finish the fall semester in the midst of a global pandemic? First and foremost, student resiliency, faculty adjusting to new teaching environments, staff reinventing how campus operates, and alumni, parents, and friends who provided the resources and support to open safely.
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