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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.

Juniors Andre Burnham and Derian De La Torre have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad this summer. Burnham will attend the Babilonia Language School in Sicily and De La Torre will study in Hamilton’s Associated Colleges in China program in Beijing.

Students and faculty in the Classics Department participated in the annual Parilia conference, held this year at Skidmore College on April 21. Each year the Classics Departments from Hamilton, Skidmore and Union Colleges come together in late April for an undergraduate research conference. The Parilia conference is named after a Roman rural spring festival celebrated on April 21.

Sarah Hogoboom ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Vietnam. A world politics major, she studied in Nepal, Jordan and Chile through the School for International Training Honors Program in Human Rights in 2016.

Florence “Flo” Turiaf ’17 has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Removed Yet Within: An Exploration of Identities Within Non-Sovereign Territories.”

Derian De La Torre ’18 and Jie Ying Mei ’19 have been awarded Freeman-ASIA awards for study abroad in China this summer.

For the second consecutive year Hamilton’s Mathletics Team has won the Snow Bowl competition, edging out teams from Colgate University, Skidmore College and St. Lawrence University. Each team’s top five scores on the William Lowell Putnam Exam, given in December, were added together to determine the winner.

Julie Lin ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan. She's a literature and studio art major who studied at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Rome.

Michael Lubelczyk ’17 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. A history major minoring in German, he studied at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, in 2016.