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Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and director of the ACCESS Project, published a book review in African American Review (vol. 40, #1). The Review is the premier journal on African American Literature and culture in the U.S. and an official publication of the Modern Language Association. The book review was written with ACCESS students Paulette Brown, Jamie L. Clark and Rosie Cotrich Perez. It is a review of the book Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005).

Tessa Olson ’08 (Geneva, N.Y.) is a busy girl. A rising junior, she has just completed a paper which she hopes to publish in the Physical Review Letters. A STEP/Dreyfus recipient, Olson returned for her second summer and inherited a project from a graduating senior. This project eventually led to an Emerson grant for “Low Energy Impact Craters” (with her STEP/Dreyfus professor Ann Silversmith, professor of physics again acting as advisor) and a paper titled “Formation of impact craters in granular media.”

Physics students David Shapiro '07 and Daniel Tomb '08 are spending eight weeks this summer working on a research project that Hamilton students have been working on for several years. The aCORN ('a' CORrelation in Neutron decay) project began in 1998 and is a collaboration between Hamilton, Indiana University, DePauw University, Tulane University, NIST, and Harvard University. The goal of aCORN is to measure the beta-neutrino angular correlation coefficient in neutron beta decay, often called the "Little a" coefficient. This correlation can be calculated in the Standard Model which describes the weak force, one of the four fundamental forces in nature.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, is travelling to Havana, Cuba, to conduct research and present a paper at a colloquium celebrating the antiquities collection of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. The proceedings will be published by UNESCO.

Jordan Fischetti ’08, a geoarchaeology major, is working on a research project this summer with Professor of Archaeology, Tom Jones. Fischetti is analyzing artifacts and source rocks he and other Hamilton students collected last summer in the Great Basin, as well as materials collected by students in the same region during the summer of 1999. Chemical analysis of the artifacts and source rocks (rocks from a volcanic source) enables archaeologists to trace Paleoarchaic Native American mobility and foraging patterns in the Great Basin.

The Hamilton College Competitive Swim Camp welcomed Olympic silver medalist Kristy Kowal as their guest clinician on July 12. Kowal was with the camp for one day; she gave a lecture in the morning, coached the campers in two swimming sessions, and joined them for an afternoon cook-out.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer is performing the role of Prospero in the Saratoga Shakespeare Company production of The Tempest. The show opens on Tuesday, July 18, and runs through the end of the month with performances Tuesdays through Sundays at 6 p.m. in Congress Park. Sunday performances are at 2 p.m. The show is free.

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.

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.

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.