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As hundreds of thousands of college graduates enter the workforce this spring, Amy Goldstein ’11 is one of many recent Hamilton graduates who is sitting securely with a job in the tough economy. Goldstein will be spending the next two years working as a federal analyst for Deloitte Consulting’s Washington D.C. office.

Many Hamilton students take advantage of their junior year to spend a semester studying overseas. Affiliated programs with Hamilton provide myriad opportunities in every corner of the globe, so students have the freedom to choose a study abroad program specifically catered to their interests. For Gabe Hage ’12, a semester at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia, was a perfect fit—Hage is an Ultimate Frisbee fanatic and is dividing his time in Sydney between his studies, travel and his favorite sport.

Two members of Hamilton College Emergency Medical Service (HCEMS) were honored with awards at the annual spring EMT dinner on May 4. The dinner is held every year to honor graduating EMTs and thank them for their years of service to the Hamilton community.

Zarqa Nawaz, the creator and driving force behind the production company Fundamentalist Films accidentally took the world by storm when she created the Canadian sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, in 2007. To Nawaz, who spoke and screened an episode of her show in the Kennedy Auditorium on April 28 as part of the Humanities Forum, comedy is all about finding something funny to say that nobody has ever said before.

Sam Hincks ’11 was recently awarded first place in the student research poster competition at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Region Conference. His poster was titled "The Optimal Mind-Reader: Data Maining Schemes That Decipher FNIRS Output."  Hincks attended the conference at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass., on April 15-17, with Stephen Harper Kirner Chair of Computer Science Stuart Hirshfield.

Hamilton was recently recognized for its efforts to go green, receiving LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification from the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) for the energy-efficient and sustainably constructed Sadove Student Center. Sadove is the third building on campus to receive LEED certification and the second to be awarded LEED Gold.

Hamilton Environmental Action Group (HEAG) is inviting the Hamilton community to join together to celebrate the Earth and make a difference during Green Week, which kicks off on Monday, April 18, and will continue through next weekend. Green Week is HEAG’s biggest project of the semester, and will feature at least one new event every day.  

How has the process of ending a relationship been affected in the 21st century by the introduction of new media in communication? Has what it means to be “broken up” undergone a fundamental change after social networking sites like Facebook introduced the world to an “official” relationship status? These are the questions that author and linguistic anthropologist Ilana Gershon explored in a lecture on April 14.

 In his lecture in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium on April 11, Anders Halverson, author of An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World, discussed the history of the rainbow trout as a game fish and the environmental implications of massive, cross-country stocking in freshwater streams.

Nearly 80 Hamilton students and alumni participated on April 8-10 in the first Hamilton Pitch Competition. The event, the brainchild of successful entrepreneur and alumnus Mark Kasdorf ’06, challenged competitors to pitch their best, most marketable business concept to a judging panel of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.