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Niels Lesniewski ’07 (Stonington, Conn.) grew up hearing his grandparents tell stories about the hurricane which, in 1938, destroyed New England. When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005, Lesniewski thought of the stories he’d been told; “part of me was thinking, that could very well be my hometown too.”

Sharfi Farhana ’09 (West Haven, Conn.), a former STEP/Dreyfus program participant, returned to research this summer to work with George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner on computational chemistry research.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager recently completed a summer course in Curanderismo, traditional Nahua-Mexican folk healing, co-sponsored by the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, La Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico; and El Centro de Desarrollo Humano hacia La Communidad. Research included study with university academics and traditional healers from Mexico, Guatemala and Bolivia. This work is part of his on-going research on religion and culture of the Mexican-American borderlands.

Professor of Government Theodore Eismeier is participating in the River Summer program of the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities from July 6 through July 29. Eismeier will join faculty from more than half of the 44 member institutions aboard the R/V Seawolf, a research vessel operated by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, to learn about the development of the Hudson and its watershed while preparing curriculum units for their courses. Eismeier also participated in last year's program.

Career Center Director Kino Ruth was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article highlighting summer internships and the increasing demand by companies offering unpaid internships that students receive credit for their work.

History major Jessie Clough ’07 (Ava, N.Y.) decided to apply for a Levitt Fellowship because she wanted a summer of research to find out what studying history was really like. But what for a topic? Then Clough went home for a weekend and found a box in the attic marked “Daniel’s Diaries.” What she discovered were the diaries of Daniel Bork and an account of the end of the village of Delta, N.Y., which was emptied in 1908 to make way for an extension to the barge canal. Clough walked into Assistant Professor of History Lisa Trivedi's office the following Monday and said, “I know what I want to write on.” The result was a proposal titled “The Village of Delta: Public Policy and Community History.”

Matthew Chuff ’08 and Robert Wysocki ’07 are working on an ongoing project in Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett’s lab this summer. The project examines the AAT1 gene in yeast, which, when mutated, prevents the cells from growing on enriched media. Chuff and Wysocki are building on work done in previous summers in order to determine how the loss of AAT1 function affects cell growth.

The Town of Kirkland, Village of Clinton, Hamilton College, Clinton School District, and Oneida County have reached a mutual agreement in which Hamilton College will provide increased annual contributions to the local area.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald participated in this year’s “Flaherty,” a week-long seminar devoted to documentary and experimental filmmaking. The annual event, which was the 13th MacDonald has attended, was held at Vassar College from June 17 through June 24.

Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, participated in a gallery opening and panel presentation at the National Women's Studies Association Convention in Oakland, Calif. The ACCESS project photo exhibit, The Missing Story of Ourselves, was put on display. About 1000 people attended the opening reception and viewed the exhibit. The panelists were Adair, Nolita Clark (Hamilton College '06), Shannon Stanfield '07, Paulette Brown (ACCESS '05) and Gita Rajan, Irwin Chair 04-06.