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David Paris, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, announced the appointment of Andrea Habbel as Administrative Assistant to the VPAA/Dean of Faculty. Habbel received her MPA from Syracuse University in 1997 and has been Assistant Director of Institutional Research at Hamilton for the past four years. In her new position she will be responsible for tracking and analyzing information on personnel and budgets, as well as general office management. She will formally begin her work in the VPAA/Dean's office on August 27.

Naomi Guttman, assistant professor of English at Hamilton College, has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2001 Fellowship. She was among 161 artists chosen from more than 3,200 applicants by a peer panel review process.

Hamilton College students, faculty, alumni and employees competed in the running of the 24th annual Boilermaker Road Race in Utica on Sunday, July 8.

Dick Patrick, a 1973 graduate of Hamilton College, and a track and field writer for USA Today, was honored by the National Distance Running Hall of Fame with the George Sheehan Media Award on July 7. Patrick ran in the 15K Boilermaker Road race on July 8.

Mary Bernardine Dias, a 1998 graduate of Hamilton College, is a member of a Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute team that is testing Hyperion, a new solar-powered experimental robot, in the Canadian arctic.

David D'Alessandro P '02, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of John Hancock Financial Services, delivered the Family Weekend address at Hamilton College in Fall 1999. His talk, titled "There is Life After a Liberal Arts Degree," appears on the Liberal Arts Career Network Web site.

Two members of the Hamilton College faculty have been appointed to endowed chairs. John H. O'Neill will be the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, and James Bradfield will be the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics. The LeFevre Chair is awarded to a senior member of the Department of English who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and accomplishment as a teaching scholar. The Leavenworth Chair recognizes outstanding teaching, distinguished scholarship, and community service. Both appointments were effective on July 1.

Hamilton rising junior Matthew Liptak and Chemistry Professor George Shields have co-authored a paper that will be published in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. Liptak has also co-authored a paper that was published in the Journal of Chemical Physics and has another forthcoming in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in August.

Why are some works of art forgeable, and others are not? Krystyn Schmerbeck, a rising junior, is researching the possibility of forgery in the arts through her Emerson Summer Collaboration Award with Philosophy Professor Kirk Pillow.

The National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation program has awarded Hamilton College $780,220 to buy a supercomputer for the project titled "Acquisition of High Performance Computers for the Northeastern Undergraduate Research Chemistry Consortium." The consortium consists of faculty at Colgate, Connecticut College, Hobart & William Smith, Holy Cross, St. Lawrence, Vassar, and Hamilton, all of whom have undergraduate research programs in computational chemistry.