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Ballots for the Hamilton College Alumni Association Alumni Trustee election mailed July 15. Elections a firm that specializes in supervising elections, will manage the election process. Each ballot is accompanied by a letter from the President of the Alumni Association and includes biographical information and a statement of candidacy for each candidate.  Completed ballots must be received by August 15. The results of the election will be certified by Elections USA, and the three candidates with the highest number of votes will be elected to fill the three vacancies for Alumni Trustee. Results will be announced to alumni on the HOLAC home page as soon as possible thereafter. Announcements also will be published in the next edition of the Hamilton Alumni Review and its online supplement (formerly eNews). Please vote. The complete election procedures are available in the "Alumni Trustee Election Procedures" link to the left of this story.

Ballots for the Hamilton College Alumni Association Alumni Trustee election mailed July 15. Elections USA, a firm that specializes in supervising elections, will manage the election process. Each ballot is accompanied by a letter from the President of the Alumni Association and includes biographical information and a statement of candidacy for each candidate.  Completed ballots must be received by August 15. The results of the election will be certified by Elections USA, and the three candidates with the highest number of votes will be elected to fill the three vacancies for Alumni Trustee. Results will be announced to alumni on the HOLAC home page as soon as possible thereafter. Announcements also will be published in the next edition of the Hamilton Alumni Review and its online supplement (formerly eNews).

Christina Nemeth ’06 (Evans Mills, N.Y.) and Erica Colligan ’06 (Buffalo, N.Y.) are working together on two projects this summer as summer neuroscience researchers under the advisement of Stone Professor of Psychology Douglas Weldon. The two neuroscience majors will be working on research projects titled “Calcium binding proteins and their expression after tactile deprivation in the superior colliculus” and “Differential firing patterns in collicular neurons with assymetrical rewards.” The students have been working in the lab with rats for both projects.

United States Olympic swimmer Samantha Arsenault came to campus on July 13 as a guest clinician with Hamilton's Competitive Swim Camp, where she spoke about her experiences as a world-class collegiate swimmer and ran two in-water instructional sessions. Samantha was on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team where she captured a gold medal as a member of the 4x200 Freestyle Relay. In addition to her gold medal in Sydney, Sam was a member of many U.S. National Teams and represented America at Pan-Pac championships and World Cup meets. A 2005 graduate of the University of Georgia, she was captain of the team in her senior season and won an NCAA team title this past March.

Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori attended three conferences in Japan and visited archives for her book project during the spring 2005 semester. Her trip to Japan was made possible with a Freeman Foundation long-term grant that she received in the fall of 2005. In June she attended conferences for the Association for Showa Literature, Japan Comparative Literature Association and Kinema Club V (conference and workshop on film and photography).

More than 40 Hamilton employees, students and alumni participated in the 28th annual Boilermaker, a 15k road race in Utica on July 10. The race consistently attracts elite runners from all over the world, including Olympians and world record holders. The 9.3 mile race is rated as one of the top 100 races in the U.S. by Runner's World magazine.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Michelle LeMasurier presented a paper she wrote with two colleagues, "Closed Relations and Equivalence Classes of Quasicontinuous Functions," at the Summer Topology Conference at Denison University, July 10-13. In the paper, the authors determined a link between closed relations and quasicontinuous functions, and then used this link to prove theorems of use to dynamical systems.

Kat Lexa ’05 (Santa Rosa, Calif.), a veteran summer science researcher, is teaming up with rising sophomore Amanda Salisburg ’08 (Duanesburg, N.Y.) to conduct alpha-fetoprotein research this summer under the advisement of Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner.

Hamilton College Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Paris announced the appointment of two of Hamilton's most outstanding teacher-scholars to endowed chairs. Professor of Art History John McEnroe was appointed to the John and Anne Fischer Professorship in Fine Arts, and Professor of Philosophy Robert L. Simon was named the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Philosophy.

Yejun Qian ’08 (Shanghai, China), returned to his native China this summer, but not to trade academia in for a carefree and relaxing holiday at home—rather, this enthusiastic student and Levitt Fellow has chosen to delve into topics such as e-waste and globalization.