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For much of the summer, home base for Lilly Yangchen ’20 is a wildlife reserve in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. She has a grant to examine the prospects for expanding ecotourism in the Himalayan country.
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With the recent kickoff of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, soccer fans across the world are dying to know: Who will capture the coveted trophy? Shanay Wadhwani ’19 has an idea.
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Two current religious studies majors and one religious studies alumna presented papers at the recent annual meeting of the Eastern-International Region of the American Academy of Religion, hosted by Syracuse University.
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Hamilton has announced recipients of the 2018 Emerson Summer Grants. Created in 1997, the Emerson Foundation Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. Twenty-six Hamilton students and 26 faculty members will work on the following projects this summer. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the next academic year.
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Jamaica’s Prime Minister, The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, recently awarded alumnus Arthur Williams ’16 with the Youth Award for Excellence in the International Achievement category, acknowledging Williams’ accomplishments while at Hamilton and in the years following his graduation.
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Jackson Herndon ’17 is exploring the work of Marx, Nietzsche and Foucault, philosophers who step outside familiar, logical thinking systems and perceive events beyond their immediate and obvious cause and effects.
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When Steven Falco ’19 couldn't find a philosophy course that included all the 19th- and 20th-century philosophers he wanted to study, he applied for a Hamilton grant to create his own course.
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Inspired by writer Kathy Acker, Joe Rupprecht ’19 crafted a summer research project he called "Art as Resistance: New Narrative Writers and Queer Zine Culture of the 1980s."
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As a student art assistant in the Kennedy Arts Center, Marisabel Rey ’19 spent hours loading and unloading kilns in the ceramics studio. Her interest grew, and eventually she would devote a summer to exploring the glazing process.
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For his 2017 Emerson project, Marquis Palmer ’18 is filming a short documentary, based in his home city of Utica, about the experience of losing a loved one to the prison system.
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