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Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant from its Science and Society division.  The $93,000 grant is to support work on her book on the metaphysics of experience and the theory of mind. The book is titled The Educability of Experience: Value, Theory, and the Problem of Objectivity. 

Human Group, a theater company founded on the Hill by students Lindsey Hope Pearlman '08, Randi Rivera '08 and Nicholas Fesette '09, will present its inaugural production of August Strindberg's classic play Miss Julie this week in Manhattan. Performances will take place on August 8, 9, 10 at 8 p.m. at The Red Room, located at 85 East 4th St. Reservations are required.

After spending the past year abroad with the Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain, Emily Powell '09 (Merion, Pa.) is putting her language skills to good use. Powell is working this summer as an undergraduate intern with the Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Law Project in Brooklyn, N.Y.. Her internship, she says, allows her to improve her Spanish skills and to learn about the dynamics of domestic violence, family law and public benefits.

Need a suggestion for a good movie? Ask Joshua Hicks '09, a rising senior from Newton, Mass. Hicks is collaborating with Professor of Religious Studies Stephenson Humphries-Brooks on a project titled "Romans, Movies, and the Disappearance of the Bible." The project is funded by the Emerson Foundation Grant Program, which provides students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty mentors, researching an area of interest. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the academic year.

While many of his fellow students worked in internships or in the library doing research, Stephen Rowe '09 (Niskayuna, N.Y.) was walking through the streets of Darjeeling and Calcutta. "I didn't want to spend the summer in an office," the rising senior said. Instead, he spent it experiencing monsoon season firsthand, walking through streets flooded with one or two feet of water to collect personal observations for his project on deliberative democracy. Rowe's research collaborates with Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin, and was funded by a fellowship from the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's the perennial question at family reunions and holiday dinners. When rising senior and communications major Stacey Klein was asked that question by her boss at CNBC this summer, she had the answer. After spending nine weeks at CNBC's Global Headquarters, she replied, "a television news producer." On Sunday, Aug. 3, the first television production in which she has played a role, "Made in China: The People's Republic of Profit,"  will air on CNBC at 10 p.m. ET.

Run for the Fallen, the 4,113-mile cross-country relay run created by Hamilton alumnus Jon Bellona '03, was featured on CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News  on Sunday, Aug. 3, and Saturday, Aug. 2, respectively. Bellona organized the run in honor of Michael Cleary '03, his Hamilton roommate who was killed in Iraq, and all of the soldiers who have lost their lives in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Hamilton will be well-represented in the Earlville Opera House production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. Performances are scheduled for Thursday and Friday, Aug. 7 and 8, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, Aug. 9, at 3 p.m. The show is directed by Rob Kolb, choreographed by Leslie Norton and features the on-stage talents of Hamilton students, faculty and administrators: Brian Collett, Katherine Collett, Dave Kolb '02, Peter Mallozzi '09, Katrina Schell '03, Nick Stagliano '11 and Dave Steadman '03.  Tickets are available online or by calling the box office at 315-691-3550. The Earlville Opera House is located at 18 East Main Street off NYS Route 12B in Earlville, N.Y.

Patrick Hodgens '09 (Syracuse, N.Y.) has traded one academic institution for another – at least temporarily. This summer, the rising senior is working as an intern at the Syracuse University Press and learning about the academic publishing industry. Splitting his time between three different departments at the press, he is able to learn about how it functions as a whole.

Greg Fullman '09 (Duanesburg, N.Y.), a physics and computer science double major, is spending his summer working on a research project that combines computer programming with cosmology, the study of the large scale properties of the universe as a whole. Whereas the average person admires the twinkling stars in the night sky for their beauty, scientists are often more interested in what they can tell us about our universe. Indeed, the light emitted by celestial objects, such as stars, can be broken into its constituent colors or spectrum and used to determine what these objects are made of, how hot they are, how fast they are moving, and a host of other important attributes.