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Last autumn, Andres “Fluffy” Aguilar ’19 embarked on an extensive year of study abroad in the Southern Hemisphere. Aguilar, a Gilman Scholarship recipient, spent his junior year studying all across South America, from comparative education studies in Chile and Argentina, to youth popular culture and youth media studies in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
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Nothing could have prepared Vince Sorrentino ’20 for what it was like to work in a hospital: grumpy patients, serious wound care, and lots of bodily fluids. It was an up close and personal look at hospital work for a student on the job—one of seven Hamilton students participating in a summer program with SUNY Upstate Medical University.
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Each summer, Opportunity Programs welcomes to campus a cohort of incoming students for an intensive academic college transition program. The newest group, members of the Class of 2022, arrived on campus on July 1.
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Princeton Theological Seminary gains a Hamilton alumna as Jackie Rodriguez begins her pursuit of her Master of Divinity degree in the fall. At Hamilton she minored in education studies and majored in government.
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Women's hockey goaltender Sam Walther '18 (Gambrills, Md./The Gunnery [Conn.]) and men's hockey goaltender Evan Buitenhuis '18 (Burlington, Ontario/Nelson HS) received the 2018 Jack B. Riffle Awards at Hamilton College's senior varsity athlete awards celebration on Tuesday, May 15.
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Several seniors were recently awarded teaching assistantships in France for next year by the French Ministry of Education.
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Academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships and other recognition of student accomplishments were announced at Hamilton’s 67th annual Class & Charter Day convocation on Monday, May 7, in the Chapel. Among the top prizes, Jenny Soonthornrangsan ’19 was awarded the Milton F. Fillius Jr. /Joseph Drown Prize Scholarship, and Marquis Palmer ’18 received the James Soper Merrill Prize.
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Marquis Palmer ’18 will explore “The Inner-World of Skateboarding Communities” in his Watson fellowship. Palmer, recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa, also received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to the Czech Republic.
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As a high school senior in the Bronx, Osvaldo Adames ’15 ran out of math courses to take. By his junior year at Hamilton, where he majored in math and minored in Chinese, he'd grown to understand the gap in resources and opportunity students faced at his former school, which hadn’t offered calculus, much less AP Calculus.
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What does it mean to have “equal access” to higher education in different cultures? Kureem Nugent ’18, recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship intends to spend the next year answering just that. He said his experience at a small liberal arts college as a first-generation student will lead him to explore how cultural capital plays a role in the path to higher education.
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