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In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats gained a majority in the both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Kye Lippold '10 (South Burlington, Vt.) noted a similarity to the 1994 "Republican Revolution" when the Republican Party gained control of both legislative bodies. This summer Lippold is working with the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner to investigate broader trends in the U.S. electorate and whether the 2006 election results are the signs of a larger movement in the country's political character.

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.

Leeann Brigham '09 decided to make a change this summer. The native of Troy, N.Y., heard about an internship position in the UCLA neuroscience lab and decided to head across the country "to try something completely different -- live in a new place, work with new people." Transplanting is never easy, but Brigham made the right choice: she loves her work in the lab.

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."