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Stephanie Anglin '10 (Endicott, N.Y.) and Jessica Ruddiman '09 (Chesterfield, N.J.) are working this summer with Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton on a research project aimed at understanding the adverse effects of suppressing negative self-referent thoughts, such as thoughts about oneself. They hypothesize that people who suppress thoughts about a self-relevant stigma will be less confident and dominant in their interactions with others than will those who do not.

Every year, members of the Hamilton community run the now famous 15K Boilermaker in Utica. If you will be running the Boilermaker, please join students, alumni, faculty, employees and their families for a Hamilton group photo at 10:20-10:25 a.m. at the Polish Community Center. Look for the Hamilton College banner!

As the European Union becomes ever more of a cohesive political entity, its place in the arena of international affairs is a matter of increasing interest in the U.S. "The formation of an increasingly powerful Union resonates in the American mind," says Zachary Cohen '09, a politics major from Brooklyn, N.Y., recalling images of "the last world power, the Soviet Union." Since America has recently enjoyed a role as the world's only superpower, Cohen says, it is important to study the nation's evolving view of the European Union.

Typing "moveForward, turnLeft (.25, .5)" Jesse Stromwick '09 commanded Om the robot to run into my foot as I opened the door to the Ferry Building. I thought I was going for the regular everyday interview of a student but instead I ended up talking to a robot. Jesse introduced me to Om after the robot ran over my foot and then Om introduced himself by saying, "what's up gangsta?" 

"Watch out for the mountain lions," Megan Herman '09 (Orchard Park, N.Y.) heard from her co-workers at as she left for her first morning run at her summer job. Although Herman didn't take the warning seriously, it wasn't intended as a joke: the rising senior is far from home this summer, working in Fraser, Colo. at Crooked Creek Ranch summer camp, and when she returned from running, the other interns were upset that she hadn't taken a running buddy along. Herman is using her EMT training and organizational skills to work as a summer EMT intern at the camp, which is run by Young Life, a non-denominational Christian organization that focuses on reaching out to adolescents through youth groups and camps.

Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, recent Hamilton graduate Lara Cueni '08 and Curtis Osterhoudt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory presented their paper "Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: The Mathematical Expression of Identity in Notched Points" at the 6th World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland on July 3.

"Doing the Right Thing – and Thriving," an article in the July 3 edition of InsideHigherEd.com, highlighted Hamilton's decision to eliminate merit aid and the subsequent rise in traditional measurements of academic quality in the incoming Hamilton class. In the article, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Monica Inzer discussed the fact that the college was doing a better job of attracting the kinds of applicants it wanted without merit aid offers.

Run for the Fallen, the 4,113-mile cross-country relay run created by Hamilton alumnus Jon Bellona '03, is featured in the July 3 issue of USA Today in an article titled "Runners mark miles for fallen troops." 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 rising senior Eric Kuhn '09, who spent the academic year at the London School of Economics, has recently written several articles for The Huffington Post. In his latest, "Political-Ish Summer Reads," Kuhn selected six top political fiction books and interviewed the authors, who range from the former executive director of the Christian Coalition to the author of the new Indiana Jones novel.

For those who are troubled by the slump in the housing market, traveling to China is like stepping into a parallel universe: demand is up and prices are soaring, and in response builders are building. These conditions result from the new way in which the nation determines who gets what housing: while the Chinese government had allocated shelter since the rise of the Communist Party during the late 1940s, the Party has recently allowed for market forces to take hold instead. Working on a Levitt Research Fellowship under the supervision of Economics Professor Stephen Wu, Cindy (Yuanxin) Zhu '11 is going on-site in China to collect real estate transaction data and talk to Chinese citizens who are affected by the transition in order to dissect the Chinese housing market's explosion.