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Stephana (Hayoung) Lim '21 never expected to be doing anything related to art in college. When she first came to Hamilton, she intended to major in physics, but soon switched over to computer science after taking a class with Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Perkins.

For Ashley Ramcharan ’20, what began as a late night conversation with friends about being a racial minority on campus turned into a 10-week long research project.

Sarah Kane ‘19 spent the spring semester in Bristol, England, in a behavioral biology program studying animal welfare and the laws that surround wild animals, and clinical animal behavior focusing on cats and dogs. Kane also wrote a dissertation with Dr. Nicola Rooney on the accuracy, or specificity and sensitivity of diabetic alert dogs.

Kayla Self ’21 has been listening to her Puerto Rican mother speak Spanish at home since she was a child, but she didn’t get much practice speaking it herself. After enrolling in a few Spanish courses at Hamilton, she decided to take her oral communication skills to the next level.

As an activist and a trauma survivor, Emily Aviles ’19 is always looking for new ways to find healing. When she first came to Hamilton, she planned to major in creative writing, but everything changed after she took her first theatre class.

While he was working on the lighting design for last fall’s main stage theatre production, Adrian Summers ’19 became fascinated with the manipulation of light and color on set, particularly how it interacted with the different hues of the performers’ skin.

Nick Pace '19 is interning at New York Restoration Project, a land conservancy agency in NYC that oversees 80 acres of parkland and 52 community gardens in all five boroughs.

Eddie Brennan '19, an Hispanic studies major, is the "influencer talent management intern" at the Los Angeles-based Digital Brand Architects, which manages a roster of leaders in the social space.

After psychology major Aoife Thomas ’20 took the class “Education, Teaching, and Social Change” with Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies Meredith Madden, she noticed something about the curriculum she had learned as a child.

This summer, Kyra Richardson ’21 joined 23 students from around the world at Osakikamijima island in Japan for a two-week program. The Human Ecology Lab and Island Odyssey (HELIO) focuses on the intersection of human ecology and Japanese higher education. Over 10 days, students participated in workshops, trainings, and hands-on meetings with local communities in Japan.