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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. 

Director of Instructional Technology Support Services Nikki Reynolds, Instructional Technology Specialist Janet Simons and Reference Librarian/Coordinator of Library Instruction Kristin Strohmeyer recently spoke at Carleton College's InfoServices retreat, in Northfield, Minn. Focusing on Hamilton's long history of collaboration between academic support services, Carleton faculty, librarians and information technology services staff were able to learn about the HILLgroup, a collaboration between the library, instructional technology services and the Oral Communication Center, and how Hamilton continues to collaboratively support courses that use technology and information resources.

Undergraduate research will again be the order of the day in the Science Center, as Hamilton hosts the seventh annual MERCURY Conference on Undergraduate Computational Chemistry. The conference, which runs from Sunday, August 3 until Tuesday, August 5, will include guest speakers as well as a poster session of students' research projects.

What was once a majestic tower overlooking the South Quad has been reduced to stumps and wood chips as Hamilton College's beloved tulip tree was struck by lightning for the third and last time this summer and finally deemed unsound.  Hamilton will dearly miss this 150+ year old tree standing over 100' tall just east of Cooper.  The Tulip tree was # 34 on the Tree Tour map. Arboretum Director Terry Hawkridge hopes to plant a new Tulip tree in its place.

Summer for Hamilton students is not just a time to chill out on the beach. Summer internships are becoming more and more necessary for college students, letting them try out areas they might be considering as possible careers, and giving them valuable work experience. Students jump enthusiastically into summer internships in a wide range of fields, from federal regulatory agencies to nature preserve patrols to news stations, working with the professionals in their field and learning skills that they may use for the rest of their careers.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer is the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference in Denver this week. He's participating in the Leadership Conference for new and emerging department chairs as well as chairing the Acting Focus Group. Cryer is also performing excerpts from his one-man show, "99," on Aug. 1 in ATHE's Micro-Fringe.

Texts like the Iliad may be old, but they are called classics precisely because they are timeless, turning up over and over again – sometimes in unusual places. Christopher Bouton '09, a rising senior from Beverly, Mass., is spending the summer researching the connections between Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, and two slightly more recent productions: "Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott and the television series "Battlestar Galactica" by Ronald Moore.