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Philip O鈥橬eill 鈥73 gets around. His senior year winter study at Hamilton took the Soviet studies major to Uzbekistan, a Muslim republic then part of the U.S.S.R. There, looking at the distant mountains, he asked a local what was on the other side.
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Getting sent to the principal鈥檚 office in eighth grade might have been the best thing that ever happened to Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme 鈥92. Her offense? She stood up in class to defend a student who was being treated unfairly.
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Working to pay rent in New York City, Ondine Jean-Baptiste 鈥17 took a job as a real estate receptionist. As she fulfilled her duties, Jean-Baptiste also armed herself with the tools and mindset of an ambitious journalist.
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Creativity is a powerful force to advance our democracy and our planet because it helps us imagine alternative futures, fuels empathy and connection, drives civic engagement, and fosters adaptable and resilient individuals and communities. We asked several professors from various disciplines to share how creativity manifests itself in their interactions with students.
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In the summer of 2022, Professor of Biology Mike McCormick began research on a green beach in Long Island, N.Y.
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As part of a research project, Santiago 鈥淪anti鈥 Chamorro 鈥25 wrote and illustrated Shaken, a children鈥檚 book that tells the story of a family in Nicaragua who must adapt to change after an earthquake strikes their region.
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Islamic and Jewish Political Philosophy. Visual Culture and the Jewish Experience. Judaism and Social Justice. These are just a few of the courses students can select to fulfill Hamilton鈥檚 new minor in Jewish Studies.
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A classics and archaeology major, Kayley Boddy 鈥22 initially thought she鈥檇 one day be working in a museum dusting off artifacts. Today, you鈥檒l find her in the weathered orange landscape of Utah鈥檚 Arches National Park where she works as a backcountry ranger.
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Installed last spring and calibrated over the summer, the new 20-inch Planewave telescope at Peters Observatory is three times as powerful as the previous 12-inch Meade telescope.
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On a rare day off聽from pitching for the Vermont Mountaineers last summer, Jack Eshleman 鈥25 was on his way to Burlington with his mom, who had traveled from their hometown in Collegeville, Pa., to watch as he played in one of the top summer baseball leagues in the country. His phone buzzed. It was former Continental baseball player John Shinn 鈥02.
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