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Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller recently returned from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she participated in the "Bishkek Summer Institute on Teaching Islam in Eurasia" from June 24 to July 7 at the American University of Central Asia.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton published "Suppression of Negative Self-Referent Thoughts: A Field Study," in the July-Sept. 2006 issue of the journal Self and Identity. The article was co-authored with Elizabeth Casey '04, who is now in a clinical psychology Ph.D. program at Kent State.
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Louisa Brown ‘09 (South Wales, N.Y.) is spending her second summer working with Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer. Brown is a STEP/Dreyfus recipient returning for her second year of lab work. She is involved in one of Brewer’s lab projects with rare earth metals, in which she chelates rare earth metals with different diketones to compare the resulting fluorescence.
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Summer research students Sarah Bertino '09 (Natick, Mass.), William Caffry '09 (Lyme, N.H.), Max Falkoff '08 (Stamford, Conn.) and Jenney Stringer '08 (Manlius, N.Y.) are working on projects related to lupine and butterfly populations in the Rome Sand Plains. Advised by Ernest Williams, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Biology, and Associate Professor of Biology William Pfitsch, the team travels to the Rome Sand Plains several times each week to conduct field research and bring samples back to the lab.
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Timothy Eddy ’07 (Pittsfield, Mass.) is on the Hill for summer research into a country far, far away. His Levitt research will focus on the increasingly complicated and contradictory nature of U.S.-Uzbek relations, as well as the implications of this relationship on U.S. foreign policy and security overseas. Advised by Sharon Rivera, assistant professor of government, Eddy is working on a project titled “The Andijon Massacre: A Major Setback in U.S.-Uzbek Relations?”
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James McConnell ’07 (East Setauket, NY) is spending his summer in the lab of George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, although he is also working on several projects with Associate Professor of Chemistry Timothy Elgren, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones respectively. Originally, McConnell had planned to work on heme-induced dehalogenation but has since branched out to other projects, all of which come under the umbrella headings of applied statistical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
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The Office of Alumni Relations has what we hope will be a compelling group of Alumni Travel programs planned for 2007. These exciting small group travel trips all contain a strong educational component and are open to members of the Hamilton family. Trips are organized in concert with Bates and Colby colleges. The Antartic and South African trips were very successful. Details on our remaining tours to India, the French Riviera, the Italian lakes district, Peru and the Turkish coastal area follow.
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ACCESS Project students Nolita Clark (Hamilton '06) and Shannon Stanfield '07 wrote an article with Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, that has been published in the edited collection, Women's Lives, Multicultural Perspectives. The book, by Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa Rey, is published by McGraw Hill Books. The ACCESS students' chapter is titled "Remarkable Journeys: Poor, Single Mothers Accessing Higher Education"(section 53). This is a major publication (essays are from some of the most important writers in the field) and an extraordinary achievement for any student, according to Adair.
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Professor of French John O'Neal presented a paper in French at the 4th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at the University of Carthage in Tunis in July. O'Neal's paper was titled "La confusion de la societe dans la Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles et la question de la modernite de Rousseau." While there O'Neal visited the ancient of Utica, for which the local city is named.
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Photographs by Visiting Art Instructor Sylvia de Swaan are on display at the Utica Public Library through Aug. 29 as part of an exhibit titled “Work Zone.” De Swaan will participate in a panel discussion on Monday, July 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the library’s gallery with two other photographers, Sarah Lathrop and Gina Murtaugh, whose works are also included in the show. The event is free and open to the public.