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If you walked around campus on a nice day this summer, you would likely have seen a pair of Hamilton students hammering metal tags onto trees. You might well have seen them doing it over, and over, and over again.

Because Hamiltonians remain committed to supporting the College’s mission through their generosity, the 2022-23 Hamilton Fund has exceeded its goal of $7.25 million.

“Worries about a gender gap on campuses oversimplify the situation,” an essay co-authored by President David Wippman in The Washington Post, provided an overview of women’s participation in higher education beginning in the colonial period.

Being tapped into the University of California at Berkeley Lacrosse Hall of Fame this year is a career-topping field goal for William “Bill” Barton ’69.

Artificial intelligence and climate change are among the very foremost hot-button issues of today. This summer, a project by Adam Koplik ’25 and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Heather Kropp is using one to explore the other—by employing machine learning to measure vegetation change in the Arctic.

A chance foray into a ceramics class at Hamilton transformed the intended career path for Mark Castro ’05, director of curatorial affairs at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va.

Stephen Wu, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics at Hamilton, recently teamed with former student Qi Ge ’06, assistant professor of economics at Vassar College, on the study “How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-to-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes.”

In an op-ed appearing in The Hill, President David Wippman and Cornell professor Glenn Altschuler discussed Oklahoma’s law targeting “critical race theory” and how it forbids teaching students about historic events including the Tulsa Massacre, one of the worst instances of racially motivated violence in U.S. history.

For some students, summer is a time to relax and decompress; for others, it is a time to develop résumés and professional qualifications. For a few members of the Hamilton baseball team, it offers the perfect opportunity to improve their game — only a few minutes from campus.

For an undergraduate student interested in theatre, the opportunity to contribute to every aspect of a production is invaluable. Interns at square product theatre in Boulder, Colo., get to do exactly that — just ask Del Gonzales ’25 who is spending the summer working with and learning from professionals in the field he plans to pursue at Hamilton and beyond.