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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.

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.