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In a year of back-to-back overseas programs, Charlotte Freed '20 spent fall semester in Dakar, Senegal. From there, she traveled to Spain What more could a foreign languages and world politics major ask? How about a State Department internship?

Six Hamilton juniors have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad during the spring 2019 semester.

She gets a lot of questions about her majors — neuroscience and dance — because they seem divergent, but in a classroom discussion with other dance students Katie McMorrow ’20 discovered kindred academic spirits.

The sequence of events lined up perfectly. In July, Charlotte Carstens ’16 finished up a five-month fellowship at the German Bundestag in Berlin just in time to begin a two-year master’s program in German and European studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Keenan Burton ’16 discovered his love for French in high school; in College he glimpsed how much further he could go. Now he’s a student in a French doctoral program.

Diana Escorcia ’20 is learning isiXhosa, and it’s maybe the most exciting thing so far about her semester abroad in South Africa

As the semester wound down, students in the fall 2018 Hamilton Adirondack Program participated in a ceramics workshop at Craigardan where they got to learn how to sculpt and throw clay. The workshop was led by resident artists with Michele Drozd, co-founder and executive director of Craigardan.

In the final event of the Fall 2018 Washington D.C Program, Nathaniel Hurd ’99 met with the students on the program and recounted how his research at Hamilton led him to his current career.

Two students journeyed off the Hill and off the continent to travel as invited guests to the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLASCO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Savannah Kelly ‘21 and Kayla Self ‘21 spent Thanksgiving recess at the conference with support from the Kirkland Endowment.

Jared Belsky ’19 presented joint research at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, Calif., — and won an award for the work about winegrowers in Umbria, Italy.