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Big — in fact GREAT — Names on campus. Student research with a practical use. Memorable seasons for the Continentals. Check out our most popular stories from 2025.

Tom Ducibella ’69 and his wife, Angela Nannini, believe strongly in the power of mentorship. They know firsthand how the profound relationships between professors and students, mentors and mentees, foster the passage of expertise, guidance, and knowledge across time. In alignment with this value, the couple initiated the Tom Ducibella and Angela Nannini Distinguished Professorship in spring 2025. This fund will support a professorship in the Biology Department to be awarded to a tenured faculty member at Hamilton.

91ÖÆƬ³§ faculty, staff, and alumni continued to appear in national media outlets and prominent higher education publications in 2025 as thought leaders, providing their expertise on a wide range of topics.

Trustee David Blood ’81, founding and senior partner of Generation Investment Management and a leader in establishing Hamilton’s need-blind admission policy, received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College on Dec. 5 at the annual 1812 Leadership Circle dinner in New York City.

Max Girard '24, Charlotte Clark '25 and Assistant Professor of Biology Ariel Kahrl recently published work in the journal Integrative and Organismal Biology that began as a summer science research project lead by Girard.

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. In November, the Griffiss Institute released findings from the research study.

Professor of Art Robert Knight and Michael Shapiro ’71, director emeritus of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, first taught From Collecting to Curating five years ago, but it has returned this year with a twist. The course is divided into three parts with one new goal: to curate an exhibition at the Munson in Utica, N.Y.

Community is a theme that shows up again and again for Sam Besca ’22. Community is what she has fostered with fellow artists in New York City since graduation, and community is what she was seeking — and found — when she transferred to Hamilton from New York University as a sophomore.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. October’s news topics included coverage of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Great Names appearance, Democratic Socialists and Secretary of War Hegseth, among others.

Fresh off his second term in the White House as U.S. secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack ’72 has joined the World Food Prize Foundation as CEO. The organization is devoted to driving transformative change in food security and sustainable agriculture.