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Six Hamilton Geoscience students participated in a National Science Foundation- and University of Tasmania-supported short course from  June 27 to June 29 in Hobart, Tasmania. The course was focused on teaching the introductory steps in processing continuous global positioning system (GPS) data strings from the U.S. Antarctic LARISSA cGPS network. This network was installed in the last four years as part of the LARsen Ice Shelf System Antarctica project and was, in part, installed with the assistance of Hamilton students.

This summer, Mackenzie Leavenworth ’15 is living the dream of any classics major. With funding from an Emerson Foundation grant, she is working on an excavation in Gournia, Greece. In addition to uncovering information about the ancient site, she has the opportunity to explore Greece, undoubtedly making her the envy of many of her classmates.

When Jessica Moulite ’14 was growing up, she didn’t watch cartoons. Instead, she was only allowed to watch the news. She credits this with giving her a lasting interest in journalism and broadcasting, one which she is exploring this summer through an internship with CBS. With funding from the George and Martha Darcy Internship Support Fund, managed by the Career Center,  she is working with the CBS Evening News and gaining experience toward a future career in broadcast media.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus, delivered a paper, "Mr., Mrs., Miss, Surnames, Given Names, and Pronouns in Joyce's The Dead," at the XXIII North American James Joyce Conference in Charleston, S.C., in June.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was interviewed by Tablet Magazine about her book, The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will (The New Press, 2013). That interview is described and summarized in the July 1 issue of the magazine, and a link to the 25-minute interview with Tablet contributor, Sarah Ivry, is published.

Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin published a research article titled "The Cost of 2-Distinguishing Selected Kneser Graphs and Hypercubes" in the Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing. In this article, Boutin presents results on a set of vertices that can be used to remove all symmetries from a network. These results give the exact size of these set for two well-known network families.

Everyone uses language on a daily basis, but few question exactly how we understand what another person is saying.  Interpreting gestures and sounds seems natural to us, yet there is a much deeper and more scientific explanation to it all.

The Kinnel research group – Sky Aulita ’15, Krystina Choinski ’15, Tara Hansen ’14, Shakil Hossain ’14, Laura McCormick’15 and Bryce Timm ’15 – participated in a symposium for undergraduate organic chemistry research students on July 2 at Hobart and William Smith (HWS) Colleges.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik attended the annual International Medieval Congress held at the University of Leeds, England, July 1-4, where he presented a paper titled "Communities of Violence: Saracens and Saints in Medieval Bavaria."

In a Levitt Center group research project this summer, Samantha Sherman ’15, Timothy Cowan ’15 and Kelly Osterling ’15 are searching for factors that drive success in small cities.  Unique policies are typically implemented in micropolitan areas (defined as containing an urban core of at least 10,000, but less than 50,000, population),  to better serve the local economies and populations.  The students are finding similarities between these successful or failing communities and will introduce constructive policy reforms.