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Supported by a $86,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation, Assistant Professor of Biology Natalie Nannas is on sabbatical studying an aspect of chromosomal cell division that could help inform fertility treatments and may also apply to cancer therapies.

From climate change to Title IX, from coups to international recruitment, faculty have presented their views in major news outlets throughout the year.

Each year, the Communications Office asks our photographer, Nancy Ford, to choose her favorite photos of the year. In a typical year, she covers a wide range of events on campus and captures scores of campus beauty and student life shots, in addition to specific photo assignments for our website, Hamilton magazine, and other publications.

In the course Suffrage & Comics, students examined political cartoons from the era of the American Civil War through the 2020 presidential election. They also created multi-panel comics of their own.

Find out what Anna Huff Mercovich, new assistant professor of digital arts, has discovered after her first semester at Hamilton, and learn about the technology she’ll be exploring with students in next semester’s New Frontiers and Storytelling.

Women comprise a little more than 14 percent of vascular surgeons in the U.S., and among that select sisterhood is Dr. Sara M. Edeiken ’03.

“The perfect applied and collaborative project for a semester wrecked by the pandemic.” That’s how Associate Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar described the fortuitous route her Lit 230 Bollywood Film course took this semester.

The Communications and Marketing Office staff writes hundreds of stories each year for Hamilton’s news page. And although 2020 was a year like no other, creative and resourceful students, faculty, and staff still managed to create, collaborate, volunteer, and celebrate. Here are a few of our staff’s favorite stories of 2020.

Thinking it presented an opportunity, Assistant Professor of Sociology Alex Manning alerted students in his Sports and Society course to an upcoming conference sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society, and Social Change. The institute, a project of the University of San Jose, was inviting undergraduate and grad students to submit recorded presentations for the November remote conference.