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Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented a paper at the Conference on Macroeconomic Research at Liberal Arts Colleges held at Smith College in August. The paper, "Do all countries follow the same growth process?," was co-authored with Lewis Davis at Union College and Julio Videras at Hamilton. Owen said the paper uses a novel methodology to explore the extent to which growth occurs in the same way in different countries. At the same conference, she also led a discussion session on teaching economic growth to undergraduate students.

Our unofficial correspondent e-mailed in from Bosnia-Herzegovina to talk about the heat, the people and the coffee. "The to-go menu has not been developed quite yet," wrote recent grad Lauren Hayden '07. "What is the rush for anyway?" Living and working in Zenica, the fourth-largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hayden has immersed herself in a different country and a different lifestyle, one where the remains of war are starkly visible, where hospitality and food are paramount and tightly linked, and where there is always time for coffee.

Last March, Emily Pallin, a rising senior from Grisworld, Conn., was a leader for Hamilton's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip where she and a group of students traveled to New Orleans to help the reconstruction effort. Pallin remained concerned with the city's rebuilding process, and she returned this summer as co-coordinator of Hamilton's first Summer Service Trip. Pallin, however, went back to New Orleans in two capacities; a dedicated volunteer, she also has a Levitt Fellowship to study the reconstruction of the New Orleans school system.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi wrote an article for the journal Perspectives: Studies in Translatology (vol. 14:4, 2006). The article, “Indexing the past: Visual Language and Translatability in Kon Satoshi’s Millennium Actress,” discusses how traditional subtitling practices have overlooked the visual aspect of film.

Kim Craig '08 (Wilbraham, Mass.), Miranda Raimondi '08 (Rome, Italy) and Danica Wuelfing '10 (Sarasota, Fla.) studied inhibition and negative priming this summer with Associate Professor of Psychology Penny Yee.

Despite the threat of rain and thunderstorms, the inaugural College Hill Golf Tournament got off to a great start. On Friday, August 3, the Great River Golf Club in Milford, CT played host to over 36 alumni, students and friends of the College, who together raised over $1,000 for the 1st Lt. Michael J. Cleary ’03 Scholarship.

Margareth Ferruzola '09, Jordan Fischetti '08 and Wes Gapp worked with Professor of Geosciences Cynthia Domack this summer to collect Utica shale near Little Falls, N.Y. The Utica Shale is more than 400 million years old and world renowned for its trilobite and graptolite fossils. Ferruzola is a geoscience major and Fischetti is majoring in geoarchaelogy.

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was interviewed for an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick's legal woes, in which Adams coined a new descriptive term, "weblebrity."

Working in a field where she can use her major is a summer job dream-come-true for Rani Doyon '08 of South Falls, N.Y. This summer, Doyon is an intern in the finance department of the SYDA Foundation -- an experience she said was vastly superior to her work last year in a Utica insurance agency.

In an international society, we encounter works in translation but we seldom consider the effort the translator has made to create or re-create the text. Erica Fultz '08 (Carlisle, Pa.), however, has acquired first-hand experience of rendering a text. Working with Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kyoko Omori, Fultz has an Emerson grant to spend her summer translating a Japanese short story into English.