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Wearing a wedding gown on television? It's all in a day's work for Vanessa Cruz-Santana '10 (Santa Ana, Calif.), who is interning this summer at KDOC TV, a local television station in Orange County, Calif. Cruz-Santana is interning for "Daybreak OC," a morning news show that reports on local news in Orange County.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper at the seventh Association of Cultural Studies (ACS) Crossroads conference held at the University of the West Indies Campus in Mona, Jamaica, July 3 - 7. His paper, "40th Anniversary of Rupture and Revolt: 1968, Guyana and the rise of the New Politics" assessed the effect of the world wide impact of 1968 on local Guyanese and 'third world' politics. It argued that fresh approaches to race relations and additional forms of protest in Guyana was influenced and affected by the global and regional (Caribbean) disturbances of 1968.

Hamilton will host the 2008 Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP), from Monday, July 14, through Thursday, July 17. IAFEP Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and debate of current research and scholarship on the economics of participation. Associate Professor of Economics Jeff Pliskin is the conference chair.

On July 1, Stephen M. Pratt '85 assumed leadership of My Turn, Inc., a youth development agency based in Brockton, Mass. My Turn collaborates with employers, educational institutions, community organizations, and families to help youth ages 14 to 21 make the leap from high school to postsecondary education, work training, and successful employment.

Caroline Miller '09 has returned home this summer, and taken her academic interests with her. The rising senior from Wayzata, Minn. is pursuing two internships based in St. Paul, one with the archaeological department of the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), and the other as a historical research intern for the Northwoods Initiative at the Trust for Public Land (TPL).

Money magazine reporter Amanda Gengler '03 provided analysis during the July 8 broadcast of CNNMoney's "Issue Number One", a news program that probes the health of the American economy. Gengler addressed the nationwide mortgage pinch and rumors of economic collapse.

University of Utah Research Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics Jim Pechmann '76 offered his seismological expertise in a June 30 NPR broadcast about the deadly collapse of Crandall Canyon Mine in northwestern Utah in August 2007.

As a creative writing major at Hamilton, Laurel Symonds '10 (Harwinton, Conn.) is always working with manuscripts, but this summer is special. Symonds is an editorial intern in the children's books department of Bloomsbury USA, a small publishing house in New York City. She reads solicited manuscripts (those the company has received from literary agents) and decides whether she thinks they are worth publishing.

Eric Scott Kaplan '04 and Matt Innes '05, former Hamilton lacrosse teammates and roommates will be riding on July 26 in the Connecticut Challenge: "Cycling for Cancer Survivors."  Their route will take them all over Connecticut, completing a 100 mile circuit.

A. Barrett Seaman '67 was presented with the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) 2008 Journalism Award on July 2, for his contribution to the field of alcohol research through his book Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess (John Wiley & sons, 2005)