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Baillie Riggs ’20 has been awarded a Freeman-ASIA grant for study abroad through Hamilton’s Associated Colleges in China (ACC) program during this summer and the 2018-19 academic year.
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It’s akin to a double major plus, but to Mercedes Girona ’20, that’s just extra fun. She majors in foreign languages, studying French and Spanish. Her second major is anthropology. We asked Girona what it’s like to be that busy as she was looking ahead to a year of study abroad in Hamilton programs.
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Seraphina Buckholtz ’20 has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for study abroad this summer. She’ll study in Amman, Jordan, through the Council for Educational Travel, Intensive language and internship program. Buckholtz will study modern standard Arabic, and the Jordanian dialect and will intern with a refugee settlement.
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Damhnait McHugh, the Raab Family Professor of Biology at Colgate University, spoke with students in the New York City Program about her research on invasive species and the role that New York City plays as a port-of-entry for them. She told students about recently introduced species like the Crazy Jumping Worm and the Asian Long-horned Beetle that can wreak havoc on forests across the Northeast.
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Jacob (Jake) Colangelo ’20 and Cameron DiGiovanni ’20 have been awarded Coccia Foundation Scholarships for study abroad in Italy. They will use the $2,000 scholarships to study in Italy this summer at the CET Siena Program.
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Olivia Melodia ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Bulgaria. A philosophy major, she studied at Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina, last spring where she was an English teaching assistant and intern at Bachillerato Popular Trans, in Buenos Aires.
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Hamilton College students in the New York City Program engaged with two extreme elements of the Big Apple – baseball and rats – on April 4. In the afternoon, the class attended a New York Mets game at Citi Field, where they watched the home team defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-2.
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Audrey Nadler ’18 is eager to return to Spain after graduation as the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA). She spent her junior year abroad in Madrid with Hamilton's Academic Year in Spain program. She is a world politics and Hispanic studies major.
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Allison Zuckerman ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. A history and German studies major at Hamilton, she studied at the University of Munich in 2016-17.
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The Hamilton in NYC Program visited the Department of City Planning and heard from Director of Waterfront and Open Space Planning Michael Marella on March 28. He spoke about the role of the department in building the coastal resiliency of the city to naturally caused crises, such as extreme weather events related to climate change like Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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