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The Chapel is filled to the brim. Students and administrators fill the two floors; two students run up and down aisles to hand students microphones, and the line that had formed outside slowly disappears as people trickle into the crevices of the room, eager to stand and watch: everyone is here to take part in Hamilton’s first Town Hall.

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.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus recently attended the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in San Diego, where he presented a talk and chaired a session.

Deasia Hawkins ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. She studied abroad in Germany during the 2016-17 academic year and says she “looks forward to returning and immersing myself once again in the culture and history Germany has to offer.”

Assistant Professor of Music Jace Saplan, director of choral activities and vocal studies, along with choral program student leaders, presented a paper at the NY6 Spectrum Conference on March 23 at Colgate University.

Last Saturday’s International Student Festival – a rousing celebration of food, culture, geography, art, and more food for hundreds of students, faculty, and staff – was followed on Sunday by a tasty sampling of offerings from restaurants owned by or employing refugees at the Refugee Food Festival.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas was awarded a 2018 Franklin Research grant by the American Philosophical Society for her research on "Federal Employee Responsiveness and Resistance during Unsettled Times."

Rather than spend the first week of spring break basking in the sun on a beach, four pre-health Hamilton students elected to shadow family medicine program residents at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica, N.Y.

Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley recently presented a paper titled “Elizabethan Traces in Appalachia? How Critics (Mis)Understand Dolly Parton’s Songs and Voice” at the national meeting of the Society for American Music in Kansas City, Mo.

Bernardine Dias ’98 is one of 10 individuals who used College Hill as a launching pad, and who are championing new ideas, challenging old conventions, pushing boundaries, and, in doing so, advancing their professions.