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The Office of the Dean of Faculty is pleased to announce the 2007 Emerson Summer Collaboration Grants winners. Twenty students and 20 faculty members will work together during the upcoming summer months on a variety of research projects. Emerson Grant winners include 10 juniors, six members of the class of 2009 and four current first-year students.

Hamilton's College Hill Singers will perform on Richmond, Va., TV station WTVR, CBS 6, on Wednesday, March 14, during its "Virginia This Morning" program which is broadcast from 10-11 a.m. The College Hill Singers were invited to perform while visiting Richmond during the annual Choir Tour, this year covering the Mid-Atlantic states. The Choir will perform on Tuesday, March 13 at 7 p.m. at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.

Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students, was interviewed for a live broadcast on WHRO's public radio show "HearSay" on March 5. The program, titled "From the headlines -- Field of Dreams?," addressed the diversity within the presidential field.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, wrote the featured op-ed in the Syracuse Post-Standard (March 11, 2007). Adair's op-ed, "The Flaw in Welfare Reform," details the effects of welfare reform since Congress passed the 1996 Personal and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act.

Hamilton sophomores Dave Hamilton, Tom Irvin, Katherine Alser, Yuqi Mao and Victoria Jenkins are heading to Chicago to compete in the National College Curling Tournament from March 16-18.

Sixty-six Hamilton students are trading beach towels and suntan lotion for hammers and hardhats as they head south to volunteer at nonprofits in six cities, including two that still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina.

Recent Grammy winner Bill Harley '77 was featured in a Boston Globe article (3/9/07) about his life as a children's entertainer. Harley's "Blah, Blah, Blah ... Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates and Dogs" recently won the Grammy for best spoken word album for children. The article highlights Harley's career as a storyteller and notes "he is among the very best at the many things he does." According to the Globe story, "... his education served him well. 'I got a good foundation in myth and story, and that kind of structure is something that still, even today, underlies a lot of the writing I do,' he says. 'I do feel like I'm not just trying to entertain. I want to do that - the first thing you have to do is entertain so they pay attention - but I don't want to lecture.'"

Physics Professor Emeritus Philip Pearle has published a paper titled "How Stands Collapse I," in the Journal of Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 3189-3204. In this work, he reviews the current status of a theory called "dynamical wave function collapse," begun by him in the 1970s, which since then has been developed significantly by others as well as himself. It changes standard quantum theory, which may be thought of as describing a collection of identical systems, enabling it to describe an individual system's behavior. He presents 10 problems raised by his initial theory, and shows how five of them were overcome. In a future paper, to be published in a volume honoring the physicist-philosopher Abner Shimony, he discusses the the other five problems, some of which have also achieved a resolution.

Seventy Hamilton students and staff members participated in America’s Greatest Heart Run and Walk on Saturday, March 3, at Utica College. These volunteers joined 8,000 others in walking and running between three and five miles. The annual event raises money and awareness for the American Heart Association and its fight against heart disease and stroke. Hamilton has fielded a team for many years.

The Richard W. Couper Press published the first issue of American Communal Societies Quarterly (ACSQ) in January 2007. The Couper Press, the publishing arm of the Hamilton College Burke Library, will publish the ACSQ in January, April, July, and October of every year.