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More than 100 Hamilton students spent a portion of their summer conducting research with faculty. In the labs and the libraries, in fields and on the water, students and faculty explored such topics as bacterial diversity in nearby Green Lake, contemporary Indian cinema and regulations in the U.S. airline industry. Read more about their projects.

The Diversity and Social Justice Project at Hamilton College will present a panel discussion, "Coming to America: Citizens Here and There," on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton's Fall Faculty Concert will open the College's music season on Friday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. This concert is free and open to the public.

Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay G. Williams '54 recently published an article,"The Spiritual in Poetry," on the Bestthinking.com Web site. The site is not open to everyone but recognized scholars are invited to join and submit articles to share with other members and the world.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, emeritus, attended the North American James Joyce Conference held at SUNY Buffalo in June. At the conference, he participated on a panel he co-organized, "Joyce and the Visual Arts," and he co-moderated two discussion panels that he co-organized. In addition, as a trustee, Briggs attended a meeting of the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation.

Newly hired Assistant Professor of Chemistry Adam Van Wynsberghe became acquainted with Hamilton College before he even arrived. This summer, he and Hamilton student Sam Cho ’10 participated in biophysical chemistry research at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where Van Wynsberghe was an NIH Kirschstein post-doctoral fellow. He says the experience was “good for both parties” in that while Cho familiarized himself with the sort of research that could consume his career after Hamilton, Van Wynsberghe became acclimated to the Hamilton community through Cho. 

A recent print by Professor of Art William Salzillo is included in Susquehanna University’s Lore Degenstein Gallery’s current exhibition opening Saturday, Sept. 5. An opening reception will be held on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Highlighting Hamilton’s commitment to eating locally, Bon Appetit, the College’s food service provider, will prepare a variety of dishes that feature vegetables grown on campus and by local organic farmers on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7. The organizations involved include Bon Appetit, the Hamilton College Community Farm and the Food For Thought seminar and its 1812 Garden.

The biennial meeting of the Rousseau Association, held this year in Los Angeles, June 25-28, had as its theme "Rousseau's Legacies." In his paper for this conference, "Saint-Preux Becomes a Woman: Gender-Bending in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse" Professor of French John C. O'Neal argues against the depiction of Rousseau as a misogynist by illustrating the profoundly transgendered qualities of the male protagonist in Rousseau's best-selling novel.

Following pregnancy, women sometimes have a high concentration of what is known as alpha-fetoprotein, a protein found in blood plasma and produced in the yolk sac and liver during the fetal stage of development. Previous studies have shown that the alpha-fetoprotein has pronounced affects against breast cancer, and therefore women who have had multiple births might be less at risk. This summer Nathaniel Taylor ’11 looked at two sub-derivatives (small pieces) of alpha-fetoprotein, Peptides TPVNP and STPNVP to see if the properties they possess could be extracted for pharmaceutical purposes. He worked on the research with Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel.