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More than 75 members of the Hamilton community gathered via Zoom on April 29 to hear alumni experts discuss the challenges and realities of governing amidst a pandemic. The virtual panel, hosted by the Hamilton Career Network, featured Tom Vilsack ’72, former U.S. secretary of agriculture and governor of Iowa; Bill Purcell ’76, former mayor of Nashville; and Maura Calsyn ’95, managing director of health policy at the Center for American Progress.

Owen McCarthy ’20 has always enjoyed working with his hands. After Hamilton, he will have the opportunity to do just that as a rotational project engineer at New York City-based Structure Tone, a global leader in general contracting and construction management.

In the fall of his junior year, Robert Welch ’20 attended a weekly “geo-lunch” meeting hosted by the Geosciences Department. The speaker, who was discussing the value of attending graduate school, imparted the following advice to the students sitting around the lunch table: “You must have the urge to ask the question ‘why?’”

Hamilton’s Common Ground program ventured to the nation’s capital on Jan. 29 where a dozen students in the Washington, D.C., program and about 20 area alumni area engaged in discussion around impeachment.

"I’m admittedly only familiar with a handful of universities, but this is the first place I have been where it feels like everyone — students, faculty, staff, administrators — is on some sort of big team trying to make something great happen."

With a semester to go before she graduates, public policy major Shadae Tingman ’20 has already landed a job as Consumer and Investment Management Operations Analyst at Goldman Sachs.

'Teaching a language is really exciting in that you get these raw, unmolded people who don’t understand any of the language, and within a few months they’re already understanding quite a lot.'

This past summer, numerous Hamilton students watched presidential candidates travel the country debating, meeting voters, and addressing some of the most pressing issues facing America. Peri Kessler ’22, Jarrod Gerstein ’20, Gabrielle Colchete ’21, and Sarine Arzoumanian ’22 did more than follow the action—they were on the ground organizing, fundraising, and spreading the messages of their respective candidates. Through their internships, each student had the opportunity to connect with the American political process and make a difference in the 2020 election cycle.

While many students spent a recent break at home, a group of 40 students remained on campus to participate in a rigorous two-day event designed to prepare them for careers in finance.

Equality, loss, neglect, legacy. These are just some of the unabashedly vulnerable topics Heidi Wong ’20 addresses in her latest collection of poetry and paintings, The Blue Velvet Dress Says I Told You So, published by 777.