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Pre-med Students Gaining Experience at Burke Rehabilitation Center

by Ben Dropkin '11

Some of Hamilton's pre-med students at Burke Rehabilitation Center

This summer, 10 pre-med students from Hamilton are gaining valuable clinical experience working directly with patients at the Burke Rehabilitation Center, in White Plains, N.Y. The students, Amy Rumack '09, Caroline Briggs '10, Mimi Briggs '10, Andrea DeSimone '10, Ben Saccamano '10, Nedzada Smajic '10, Valerie Valant '10, Elizabeth Wahl '10, Ben Dropkin '11, and Kristen Randolph '11, have been working as nurses' assistants at the hospital since the end of May. The hospital has generously provided housing for those students not from Westchester County. More ...

Hamilton Is Hub of Collaborative Consortium

Mellon Foundation $100K Grant Funds Project

The "New York Six," six liberal arts colleges in Upstate New York, has received a one-year planning grant of $100,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to begin collaborative work with the goals of controlling business costs and learning from each other's experience in areas of student life and staff development. Hamilton is the designated grantee for the project and will serve as a hub for the consortium with fiduciary and reporting responsibilities. More ...

Anoop Pandey '10 Studying Geology of Egypt

by Allison Eck '12

Anoop Pandey '10 and Prof. Barb Tewksbury. Photo: Dave Tewksbury Photoimaging.

Anoop Pandey '10 is responsible for distributing the famed "golden bikes" for free student use on campus, but the part of the globe he's studying certainly isn't accessible by bike. This summer, Pandey is using remote sensing to study unusual fold structures along faults in the Western Desert of Egypt. He is working with Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury. More ...

Professors Muirhead and Pellman Appointed to Endowed Chairs

Bruce Muirhead and Sam Pellman

Acting Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead was appointed to the William R. Kenan Chair, and Professor of Music Sam Pellman was appointed to the Leonard C. Ferguson Chair. Both are effective July 1. More ...

Students Researching Vancomycin Structure

by Allison Eck '12

Rem Myers '11 and Kevin Graepel '11

Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic known as "Mississippi Mud" among chemists. Researchers 50 years ago attributed the nickname to Vancomycin's dark brown, cloudy, and generally infectious appearance. The scientists noticed that it demonstrated strong anti-microbial properties. Originally extracted as a natural product, Vancomycin was widely used when other antibiotics were no longer effective. More ...

Evin Adolph '10 Interns With Quality Milk Production Services

by Allison Eck '12

Evin Adolph '10

Evin Adolph '10 never thought her major in Hispanic studies and minor in biology would overlap. Now she knows that Spanish speakers can turn up anywhere, even at a company like Quality Milk Production Services (QMPS). Her internship there this summer is affiliated with the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine. More ...

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Fallen Giants Lauded in Appalachia Journal

"By all means; beg, buy or steal Fallen Giants," begins a recent review of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester Professor of History Stewart Weaver. More ...

Cannavo Contributes Op-ed to Syracuse Post-Standard

Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo contributed an op-ed, "Ignorance a Weapon in Climate Debate," to the Syracuse Post-Standard (6/21/09). Cannavo writes "Conservatives have long professed skepticism about the idea of anthropogenic climate change, despite decades of research and reams of studies and warnings from the world's leading climatologists. Such skepticism becomes even less credible when those articulating it lack even a grade-school understanding of the science." More ...

Rowe Writes Introduction for New Book, Jazz Studies

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive, wrote the introduction to Jazz Studies (2009, The Argian Press). The publisher is David Hayes '81. The book is a collection of photos of jazz musicians by Joann Krivin. In the introduction, Rowe refers to several of the featured musicians who received honorary degrees from Hamilton, including Milt Hinton, Joe Wilder, Joe Williams, Clark Terry and Kenny Davern. More ...