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  • As new and returning members of our community made their way back to the Hill this fall, they were greeted by new spaces, programs, and people. Here’s a look at what’s new and what’s ahead.

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  • Preston Sutton ’97 follows where science, the wind, and his interests take him. As operations manager at Sail & Explore, this polymer physicist does field work and expedition planning for a Switzerland-based nonprofit that explores the possible effects of micro- and nanoplastics on human health.

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  • In its first meeting of the 2025-26 academic year, the Hamilton Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 10 members of the Class of 2026.

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  • Winning a NESCAC championship requires a bit of travel, and climate action requires a bit of cooperation. Carson Hall ’26 and Ben Zimmerman ’26 understand this, and are doing something about it. On a Saturday in early September, the men’s hockey team planted over 50 trees in Utica. The initiative seeks to offset the emissions of athletics travel.

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  • Thirty-three trips into the wilderness, 68 student leaders, 287 student participants. Plus dozens of canoes, tents, sleeping bags, rain gear, pounds of cheese, and other essentials. The planning that goes into Hamilton’s Adirondack Adventure (AA) orientation program is extensive, and the process has run like a proverbial well-oiled machine for the past four decades thanks in large part to Director of Outdoor Leadership Andrew Jillings, who came on board in 1997 to expand the program from a modest six trips.

  • Through Emerson Foundation Grants and Levitt Summer Research Fellowships, Hamilton students forge their own research paths, from studying environmental justice and exploring the intersections of art and mathematics in AI, to promoting better understanding of pediatric cancer patients’ experiences. Here are what three summer grantees said about the inspiration and significance of their projects.

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  • In 2020, when the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War forced Nana Hayrumyan ’27 and her family to flee to Armenia from their home in the Republic of Artsakh, her schooling was put on hold. But Hayrumyan never gave up her belief in the value of education.

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  • The Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy (HCSPiP), founded in 2018, has been a success from the beginning. First featured in an article in the American Philosophical Association Studies in Teaching in Philosophy, this year the Chronicle of Higher Education spotlighted the program in July.

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  • Eric Kuhn ’09 has been at the cutting edge of social media strategy and content production since his time as a student on College Hill. Now he is preparing for yet another on-stage responsibility: hosting Hamilton musical composer, creator, and star Lin-Manuel Miranda for the Sacerdote Great Names series.

  • This summer, Levitt Center student researchers Luke Hanson ’26, Delaney Patterson ’26, Samuel Low ’28, and Ton Somnug ’27 joined forces with Griffiss Institute CEO and Hamilton alumna Heather Hage ’02 to investigate the holistic impact of federal spending on the local economy.

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