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Thirteen Hamilton students received college funding to pursue an unpaid internship over the summer. While pursuing internships is an increasingly popular move for students, the realities pose certain problems. Most available positions are unpaid, requiring students to fund their own housing and living expenses as well as working for free, all in pursuit of relevant work experience. Thanks to grants from alumni and parents, Hamilton students can apply for funding to support their unpaid summer internships. For many students, these grants allow them to pursue an internship they could not otherwise accept.

Author and internationally recognized human rights attorney Geoffrey Robertson spoke at Hamilton on September 19. Robertson’s most recent book, The Tyrannicide Brief, recounts the story of John Cooke, the man who prosecuted Charles I for treason. In his lecture, Robertson recounted some of the story of Cooke and discussed the necessity and difficulty of bringing tyrants before the bar.

Hamilton’s newly-established Diversity and Social Justice Project awarded grants to three students to pursue “unpaid socially useful work” over the summer. The grants had matching funds from the Kirkland Endowment. The recipients were Pat Hodgens ’09, Jessica Yau ’08 and Joshua Cheung ’09.

Douglas Ambrose, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History, and Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin, editors of The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton, will discuss their research at an event hosted by the NYU Press and New York Historical Society on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at the NY Historical Society in New York City. Ambrose and Martin will be joined by noted Hamilton historian Richard Brookhiser to discuss Hamilton's legacy and consider why history has denied him the central place he occupied in his own time. Contact the Office of Alumni Relations for information about ticket information, regional@hamilton.edu, (866) 729-0314.

While many of her peers stayed on campus over the summer to pursue research in the sciences, Matroner George ’07 (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) traveled to South Africa to work in a research lab with Professor Kelly Chibale at the University of Capetown.

Dr. Alice D. Dreger, from the Department of Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, spoke at Hamilton on September 11 and 12. Her lecture on Monday, “The Role of Doctors in the Future of Normal,” focused on the medical community’s ideas about and treatment of individuals born with “socially-challenging bodies.” Dreger’s research has focused on such conditions as intersex, conjoined twins and cleft lip.

Elena Filekova ’08 spent her summer in New York City interning with the ING Funds of Funds Group. Filekova’s internship was one of 13 funded by a Hamilton grant this summer. While pursuing internships is an increasingly popular move for students, the realities pose certain problems. Most of the available positions are unpaid, requiring students to fund their own housing and living expenses as well as working for free, all in pursuit of the elusive resume-booster “work experience.”

“It is not every day that you wake up and find lion tracks all throughout your camp,” begins one of Caitlin Jacobs’ ’07 updates on her summer research. “But out here in the bush of South Africa, I have been lucky enough to have these experiences on a regular basis.” Jacobs spent her summer interning and learning at the Makalali Game Reserve in South Africa in South Africa, thanks to Hamilton’s Joseph F. Anderson Internship Fund.

Keya Advani ’08 spent her summer interning with The Global Justice Center (GJC) in New York City, a unique non-governmental organization dedicated to enforcing the affirmative rights of women to political representation. Advani was one of 13 Hamilton students who received college funding to conduct a summer internship. While pursuing internships is an increasingly popular move for students, the realities pose certain problems. Most of the available positions are unpaid, requiring students to fund their own housing and living expenses as well as working for free, all in pursuit of the elusive resume-booster “work experience.”

Physics students Michael Gregg ’08 (Albany, N.Y.), Yubo Lu ’07 (Shanghai, China) and Julia MacDougall ’09 (Wilmington, Mass.) are working on summer research projects involving the theory of Quantum Gravity with Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major. The theory of quantum gravity is the “missing link” in a unifying theory between quantum mechanics, which deals with a small scale, and the theory of general relativity, which looks at the larger scale.