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Not all summer camps are about learning scissor kicks, tackles or goal tending. For elementary and middle school students who want to have a different summer camp experience, Hamilton College is offering a Public Speaking Camp, June 25-29.

Imagine rolling down the street in a brand-new convertible, secure in the knowledge that your latest extravagance is powered by renewable hydrogen fuel cells. Now consider the terrible implications if the hydrogen cannot be stored safely. Hydrogen in its pure form is an exceedingly reactive gas that must be kept at extreme pressures and temperatures not safe using traditional metal or plastic containers. Developing a light, low-cost receptacle that can withstand these conditions is the work of Sarah Cryer '10 (Stamford, Conn.) under the advisement of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones.

A $370,000 gift from charter trustee David Solomon ’84 and his wife Mary will enable Hamilton College to make its campus completely wireless by the time classes begin again this fall.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey is managing a program for faculty from colleges with high minority enrollments. The program supports travel for faculty to attend one of 17 research conferences being held in San Diego in June as part of the Association for Computing Machinery's Federated Computing Research Conference (see http://www.acm.org/fcrc). Bailey secured funding for the program from a grant from the National Science Foundation with matching money from various special interest groups with the Association for Computing Machinery.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Ian Rosenstein and three students participated in the 40th National Organic Symposium, sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society at Duke University, June 3-7. The students, Daniel Griffith, Silas McKee and Rebecca Parkhurst, all graduated from Hamilton in May. The three students made four poster presentations. Griffith was a co-author on two posters, one with Rosenstein and the other co-authored with Associate Professor of Biology Herm Lehman. McKee's poster was co-authored by Greg Nizialek '08 and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones and Rosenstein. Parkhurst and Rosenstein were the authors on her poster.

Thirteen students from Geosciences 295: The Geology of Tasmania, along with the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences Gene Domack and Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran, are traveling through the country to study the geology of Tasmania and wilderness ethics. The students participating are: Andrew D'Amico '08, Samuel Bromley '08, Taylor Burt '08, Abigail Carpen '09, Katherine Goodwin '08, Alyssa Kanagaki '10, Julia MacDougall '09, Michael Millar '09, Richard Munschauer '09, Ryan Murphy '08, Sarah Powell '09, Kimberly Roe '08 and Cody Westphal '08. The group is filing reports from their trip.

A group of Hamilton students traveled to New Orleans for 10 days to contribute to post-Hurricane Katrina cleaning and rebuilding efforts. This was Hamilton's first summer service trip, and it was funded by both ASB and HAVOC. Participants were: Tamim Akiki '08, Mike Flanders '09, Sarah Gulack '09, Shane Knapp '09, Ashley Langer '09, Stacey Ng '10, Doug Paetzell '09, Emily Pallin '08, David Schlifka '09 and Stephanie Tafur '10.

Kyoko Omori, assistant professor of Japanese, has been awarded an SSRC/JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct year-long research at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She will be working on her book project titled “Detecting Modanizumu: New Youth Magazine, Tantei Shôsetsu [Mystery Fiction], and The Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920-1950.” Omori was also awarded a Japan Foundation Research Fellowship for next year.

With a record 1,617 alumni and guests on hand, Reunion Weekend 2007 represented a historic moment of transformation for the Hamilton campus, with three events that both change the face of the College and help mark its historic legacy.

The weather might have been unpredictable for Reunions '07, but one thing attendees could count on was an abundance of things to do during the weekend of May 31-June 3. From history classes to art exhibits, musical performances to sports discussions, building tours to a golf tournament, the weekend was packed with 86 activities, from the sedate to the stimulating.