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Recipients of the 2017 Emerson Summer Grants were recently announced. Created in 1997, the Emerson Foundation Grant program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. Twenty-eight Hamilton students and 25 faculty members will work on the following projects this summer. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the academic year.

Kathryn “Katie” Veasey ’17 will link her concentration in environmental studies to her love for golf in a project for which she has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at the 67th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 8.

Hamilton's highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members during the annual Class & Charter Day ceremony on May 8.

Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Margaret Gentry on Class & Charter Day on May 8.

Rapper Lupe Fiasco headlined the annual Class & Charter concert on May 5 in the Field House. Rapper Luke Christopher opened the show and DJ Bradley was selected from among Hamilton student DJs to do a 20-minute set to start off the event.

A class in meteorology with Professor of Geosciences Cynthia Domack led not only a spring internship with a local TV meteorologist, but a summer internship in the field for Michael Hosek ’19.

Hamilton College’s Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year, will take place Monday, May 8, at 4:15 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Taryn Ruf ’17 has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “The Whey Forward: Exploring Cheese Producers’ Blending of Tradition and Modernity.”

Jack Wright ’19, last year’s winner of the Adirondack Council’s Wilderness Writing Contest, collected on his prize of an airplane flight over the Adirondacks on April 23. He was chosen based on a letter he wrote to Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressing reasons why the state should expand the High Peaks Wilderness area.