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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, recently returned from Tartu, Estonia, where he attended the Central and Eastern European International Studies Association (CEEISA) conference at the University of Tartu. He presented a paper on transatlantic relations, titled "The EMU and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of the Crisis of the European Union" which was co-authored with Magnus Ryner of the University of Birmingham.

Greg Hartt ’08 is working on two computational chemistry projects with George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner this summer.

Chemistry majors Amanda Salisburg ’08 and Katherine Alser ’09 are working on an ongoing project in the computational chemistry lab under the advisement of the Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner. The project, involving the breast cancer-inhibiting alphafetoprotein, was started in the biology department about 10 years ago.

A.G. Lafley, a 1969 graduate of Hamilton College and CEO of Procter & Gamble, was honored by Chief Executive magazine as CEO of the Year at the CEO of the Year Forum held on July 12 at the New York Stock Exchange. In honor of the occasion, Lafley rang The Closing Bell.

Members of the Hamilton College swim team made a big splash at the 8th annual Swim Across America event at Nantasket Beach in Hull, Mass. On July 15, they braved the chilly ocean water, along with U.S. Olympic swimmers, for a one-mile swim to support the David B. Perini, Jr. Quality of Life Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The event raised more than $250,000, with a record number of participants this year.

Professor of Geosciences Eugene Domack gave an invited talk titled "Modern Antarctic glacial marine settings as partial analogs for Snowball Earth" at the Snowball Earth Conference in Ascona, Switzerland, on July 16-21.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented two papers at the 13th meeting of the International Association for the Economics of Participation held at Oñati, Spain from July 12 - 15.

For most people, "vampire" means Joss Whedon's hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fans of the show abound; most of them do watch and read a lot of vampire literature and maybe there are even some who ask strangers what they think of vampires. But William Welles '08 (Greenwich, Conn.) is more than your average Buffy fan, all this and then some: he is a Buffy fan with funding. The history and theatre major has an Emerson Grant this summer to work with Visiting Instructor in Comparative Literature Janelle Schwartz, researching the figure of the vampire in contemporary American culture.

Controller and Director of Budgets Matthew P. Orlando received the Rising Star Award from the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) at the Annual NACUBO Convention in Hawaii on July 8.

In a review titled Exorcising Hobbes Frank Anechiarico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, critiqued The War on Terror and the Framework of International Law in the April 26 edition of the Harvard International Review.