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Student and faculty academic and service accomplishments were recognized and President Joan Hinde Stewart was honored at the 66th annual Class & Charter Day on May 9. President Stewart will retire from Hamilton on June 30 after serving the College for 13 years.

Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at Hamilton’s 66th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 9, in Wellin Hall. Among the top prizes, Bryan Ferguson ’17 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Alex Mitko ’16 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.

Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members during the annual Class & Charter Day ceremony on May 9.

Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds on Class & Charter Day on May 9.

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 9, at 4:15 p.m., in Wellin Hall. This year’s ceremony will also celebrate the tenure of President Joan Hinde Stewart, who is retiring on June 30.

President Joan Hinde Stewart was awarded an honorary degree during the 2016 commencement ceremony of Hobart and William Smith (HWS) Colleges on Sunday, May 15, in Geneva, N.Y.

Fifty-one members of the Hamilton Continentals football team recently spent a day doing yard clean-up at homes in Clinton.  Community Clean-Up day is a service project that originated with Coach Dave Murray when he coached at Alfred University. 

John Hartpence, assistant cross country & track and field coach, was the overall winner of the 2016 HamTrek triathlon with a time of 55:20.15. Lauren King ’16 was the top female individual at 01:03:32.95, and Team Hooper won the co-ed relay clocking in at 01:02:42.12.

Laura Becker ’16 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan. A Chinese major at Hamilton, she studied in Beijing during her junior year.

 A team of Hamilton students won the programming competition at the 21st annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Northeastern Region, held at Hamilton on April 29 -30. Linnea Sahlberg ’17, Ryan Woo ’17 and Alex Dennis ’18 were the winners from among 39 teams.