Hamilton College elects three alumni to board of trustees

CLINTON — Hamilton College announced that its Alumni Council has nominated and elected three candidates to serve as members of the college’s board of trustees for four-year terms beginning on July 1. The new trustees are Elizabeth G. Bacot-Aigner, Aditya Bhasin, and Daniel I. Rifkin. 

Bacot-Aigner is a “generous supporter,” both of Hamilton College’s annual fund and of her family’s scholarship fund, the college said. She and her sister recently established a new scholarship in honor of their father. Bacot-Aigner was an art major when attending Hamilton.

Bhasin graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in chemistry and computer science before pursuing a master’s degree in computer engineering and a master’s  in engineering management from Dartmouth. He started his career with Booz Allen Hamilton before going to Bank of America (BofA) in 2004. Bhasin has been the chief information officer, head of consumer, small business, and wealth-management technology at BofA since 2015. Bhasin is actively involved in driving programs supporting women and underrepresented minorities pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines. 

After graduating from Hamilton College, Rifkin received his M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School and continued his education with a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and sleep medicine at the University of Michigan. He returned to Buffalo and opened a private practice specializing in sleep disorders. Rifkin completed an MPH degree recently, focused on the impact of climate change on sleep habits. He funded a “significant scholarship endowment fund” at Hamilton College.