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  • Kimberly Bauer exposed herself to severe culture shock this summer. The senior from Concord, Mass., spent her spring semester in Botswana and, three days after returning home, moved to New York City to take up her internship with New York-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) WildMetro.

  • Senior Julianne Jaquith, a native of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., is interested in law school and public interest issues. This summer she decided to do some investigation work, and secured a position with Legal Services of the Hudson Valley (LSHV) to research the current system of providing counsel for low income individuals in civil matters.  

  • Junior Sharfi Farhana (West Haven, Mass.) used to spend a lot of time in Bangladesh when she was younger. Returning for a wedding last Christmas, she looked at the familiar landscape with new eyes. After several years at an affluent Western college, Farhana noticed that the poverty, the lack of opportunity, the pollution all stood out. "You see that when you’ve had two years of liberal arts education," Farhana said.

  • Summers on the island of Nantucket are nothing new for Chris Bouton ’09 (Beverly, Mass.), although this is the first summer he has spent there doing research as well. Advised by Associate Professor of History Douglas Ambrose, Bouton spent his summer investigating the contentious Nantucket anti-slavery movement in the 1840s.

  • Junior Tom Helmuth from Wooster, Ohio, wants to take a number theory class. Unfortunately for Helmuth, Hamilton's math department does not currently offer one and so Helmuth turned to Professor of Computer Science Richard Decker in his pursuit of prime numbers. Advised by Decker, Helmuth spent this summer doing interdisciplinary research that combined his two majors of math and computer science as he investigated primality testing and factorization algorithms.

  • John Molfetas (Athens, Greece), a junior who spends his summers on the Greek island of Cephalonia, spent this summer on the island as usual, doing research into the electoral behavior of the islanders in the last 30 years. Molfetas had an Emerson grant to support his research and was advised by the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan Cafruny.

  • Other people went tanning this summer, but for Kim Roe '08, half-way around the world, it was winter again. "I had to put a hot water bottle in my sleeping bag," joked Roe, a native of Maryville, Tenn., who spent the month of June doing geology field work in Tasmania. Roe spent a total of three weeks on the Tasman peninsula, the first two with Hamilton's geology field study program and one doing field work on her own.

  • William Cowles ’09 took his history major into new territory this summer when he turned to the little-studied Robben Island hunger strikes. Cowles was interested in researching South Africa and subsequently applied for and was awarded an Emerson grant to investigate and build a timeline for the evolution of the Robben Island hunger strikes as a method of political resistance.

  • While some Hamilton students did their internships in business offices this summer, it was all hands-on for senior Megan Brousseau who returned to her home in Heidelberg, Germany, to work in a U.S. Army hospital. During her summer at the hospital, Brousseau worked in the emergency room and the orthopedic clinic, at everything from data entry to surgery.

  • This summer, art history major Xin Wang ’09 secured an internship at one of the most prestigious museums in the country. Wang worked in the newly-established Media Department of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as an archivist and art previewer; during her summer, she gained a huge amount of experience in the field and business of modern art.

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