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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.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Yvonne Zylan appeared before the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, California on June 23, presenting oral argument in a case concerning the interaction between California’s Domestic Partners Rights and Responsibilities Act and the federal Bankruptcy Code. The case, on which Zylan has been acting as a pro bono consultant since last fall, raises issues of statutory interpretation and public policy with respect to the legal definition of civil marriage.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was interviewed for the article: "Missed Behavior; Can cognitive biases explain unethical behavior?" in Chartered Financial Analyst Magazine. The article quotes Ravven, who offered insight into how one's actions can be influenced by various social contexts and our religious values. According to the article, "the identification of behavioral insights isn't inherently good or bad. Nor do such insights explain why some individuals behave unethically while others are down right saintly." Ravven is quoted as saying, "We have a culture backed by incentives and disincentives." But these incentives and disincentives do not always work to promote ethical behavior.

When Music/Philosophy major Christopher Boveroux ’08 (Appleton, WI) traveled to Estonia with his high-school choir, he most likely assumed that the trip was only a chorus concert, albeit an interesting one. It was in the massive amphitheatre where once nearly a third of the population of Estonia gathered for a three-day music festival that the idea for a summer proposal was born. Several years later, Boveroux applied for and was offered an Emerson Grant to research, with Heather Buchman, assistant professor of music, the key role of music in the Baltic Independence Movement.

While many of her peers are working in laboratories on campus, Ruth Duggan ’08 chose to travel to New Mexico to pursue her summer research. Duggan, a physics major from Oakland, Calif., is working on the NPDGamma experiment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her Hamilton project advisor, Assistant Professor of Physics Gordon Jones, helped build a cell that Duggan is using in her research.