Student Research

Hands-On Collaborative Research
Summer Research
娇色导航offers its students outstanding opportunities to conduct research in all disciplines. Approximately 120 students receive grants each summer.
Publish & Present
Whether it’s during the academic year or the summer, 娇色导航students collaborate with professors on original research. Often their work results in articles published in peer-reviewed journals or in presentations at national conferences.
Student Stories
Research & Discovery
During the academic year and over the summer, 娇色导航students put into practice the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom, lab, and studio. Every student graduates having completed a capstone experience, which typically involves significant research or an original artistic creation. Here are some recent examples.

Levitt Center Releases Report on Youth Gun Violence in Utica
Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center has released a comprehensive report titled 鈥淵outh Gun Violence in Utica, New York: Causes, Context, and Prevention.鈥 This report is the culmination of the Center鈥檚 Fall 2024 Justice Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative involving 16 students across four integrated courses led by four 娇色导航faculty members.

Strong Mentorship Leads Yuxuan Xu 鈥26 to Goldwater Scholarship
Yuxuan Xu 鈥26 has been named a recipient of the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a national award that supports students intending to pursue research careers in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. For Xu, the recognition wasn鈥檛 just a validation of his work 鈥 it was a meaningful milestone after years of dedicated effort and strong mentorship at Hamilton.

Two Geosci. Majors. Two Passion Projects. Two Watson Fellowships
Andrew Fredericks 鈥25 and Charlie Haberstock 鈥25 both received a 2025 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a national $40,000 grant to pursue a one-year passion project anywhere in the world. While receiving the award is a feat in and of itself, the two geosciences majors were particularly excited when they heard that the other had won. Close friends since their first year at Hamilton, the pair had supported each other throughout the Watson application process.