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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.

Summer research students Sarah Bertino '09 (Natick, Mass.), William Caffry '09 (Lyme, N.H.), Max Falkoff '08 (Stamford, Conn.) and Jenney Stringer '08 (Manlius, N.Y.) are working on projects related to lupine and butterfly populations in the Rome Sand Plains. Advised by Ernest Williams, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Biology, and Associate Professor of Biology William Pfitsch, the team travels to the Rome Sand Plains several times each week to conduct field research and bring samples back to the lab.  

Timothy Eddy ’07 (Pittsfield, Mass.) is on the Hill for summer research into a country far, far away. His Levitt research will focus on the increasingly complicated and contradictory nature of U.S.-Uzbek relations, as well as the implications of this relationship on U.S. foreign policy and security overseas. Advised by Sharon Rivera, assistant professor of government, Eddy is working on a project titled “The Andijon Massacre: A Major Setback in U.S.-Uzbek Relations?”

James McConnell ’07 (East Setauket, NY) is spending his summer in the lab of George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, although he is also working on several projects with Associate Professor of Chemistry Timothy Elgren, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones respectively. Originally, McConnell had planned to work on heme-induced dehalogenation but has since branched out to other projects, all of which come under the umbrella headings of applied statistical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.

The Office of Alumni Relations has what we hope will be a compelling group of Alumni Travel programs planned for 2007. These exciting small group travel trips all contain a strong educational component and are open to members of the Hamilton family. Trips are organized in concert with Bates and Colby colleges. The Antartic and South African trips were very successful. Details on our remaining tours to India, the French Riviera, the Italian lakes district, Peru and the Turkish coastal area follow.