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Roger Danilek 鈥21 arrived on the Hill knowing he wanted to pursue either engineering or physics. Then, he took a computer science class and that changed everything.
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Hillary Bison贸 Ortega 鈥21, an art and cinema and media studies major, received a Smallen Creativity Grant for her project 鈥淎 Tale of Two Bushwicks,鈥 a photographic documentation of changes in the neighborhood where she grew up. She describes the project below. Her work and that of 12 other senior art majors is on display at the Wellin Museum through May 20.
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Theatre and psychology double major Gus Gonzalez 鈥21 was recently accepted into the Atlantic Acting School, where he will enter a two-and-a-half-year program that focuses on acting and the theatre business. Here, Gonzalez discusses the application process and his time at Hamilton.
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Alexander Jarman, assistant curator of exhibitions and academic outreach at the Wellin Museum of Art, writes here about student and faculty engagement with the exhibition Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud.
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Lucille Kline 鈥22 has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian through a virtual program offered by the University of Nizhny Novgorod. The Critical Language Scholarship is a program run by the U.S. Department of State for intensive language study in 15 critical languages.
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It was a return to semi-normal as academic achievement prizes, prize scholarships, and other recognition of student accomplishments were awarded at the annual Class & Charter Day convocation on May 11. President David Wippman announced the winners in a tent on Dunham Green as spectators watched online.
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Family camping trips inspired a love of nature in Robbie Rioux 鈥21, and he studied environmental science in high school. Now he's pursuing a master's degree in the subject at Yale University.
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Jeremy Mathurin 鈥16 graduated from Hamilton and into a job at the formidable consulting firm Deloitte.,He noted on his resume that he'd taken an advanced statistical modeling course at Hamilton that focused largely on 鈥淩,鈥 a programming language for big data.
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Will Andriola is eager to share his Hamilton Debate Team experience with debate students in Bulgaria over the next year while serving there as the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA). Bulgarian Fulbright ETAs contribute to coaching BEST (Bulgarian English Speech and Debate Tournament) Foundation debate teams. 鈥淎fter three years competing on Hamilton鈥檚 debate team, I thought it would be a great way to help students improve their confidence and public speaking skills,鈥 said Andriola.
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Reflecting on the most recent analysis by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, that revealed that less than a quarter of U.S. high school seniors demonstrate proficiency in civics, and just 12 percent of them meet that standard for U.S. history, President David Wippman and co-author Glenn Altschuler penned an essay for The Hill published on May 2.
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