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Alumni Association President Melissa Joyce-Rosen recently announced that members of the association will be receiving ballots for the annual election of Alumni Trustees.  The ballot mailing will include information about the seven candidates who are vying for three open positions on the Board. 

United States Olympic swimmer Kristy Kowal visited Hamilton on June 29 to speak to participants of the Hamilton College Competitive Swim Camp and the Hamilton kids’ athletic camp about her experiences as a high school, collegiate and Olympic athlete.

It seems as though everyone uses a cell phone today for communication. Some may be even more advanced and use their cells for e-mail, pictures and Internet. However, Erik Goulding ’06 (West Suffield, Conn.), Mike Gruen ’06 (Englewood, N.J.), and Aram Kudurshian ’06 (New York, N.Y.) are working to develop a new use for cell phones. These three Hamilton students are working with Professor Mark Bailey to create a system in which people can work in the same computer files in different places and use a programmed Blue Tooth cell phone to automatically synchronize the data.

Enjoying the summer weather and relaxing on the beach, without textbooks and assignments, are not part of Caitlin Rochford’s ’06 summer plans; rather, as a Levitt Fellow, she is spending the summer in Washington, D.C., researching the environment under the direction of Alan Cafruny, the Harry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs. Rochford is studying the progress of energy legislation, including the Climate Stewardship Act, the Energy Efficiency Act of 2005 and is analyzing how the actions of Congress reflect current American sentiment on oil, renewable energy and the environment.

The Hamilton College Alumni Office is pleased to continue our alumni travel program in calendar year 2006. In 2005 Hamilton alumni have enjoyed trips with a wonderful mix of education, camaraderie, privacy and entertainment to Costa Rica, Italy, France and China with the alumni associations of Colby and Bates colleges.  Thus far, in 2006, Hamiltonians enjoyed a journey through Vietnam in March. Due to the overwhelming success of Alumni Travel in the 2005, Hamilton is offering two more international Alumni Travel opportunities to alumni, parents and friends of the College in 2006. Passage of Peter the GreatJune 17-26, 2006  Greek Isles: Crete, Santorini and AthensOctober 9-22, 2006 All travel programs will have strong educational component complimenting the professionally managed tours. A fifth summer trip along the Lewis and Clark expedition of discovery trail is in the works for the summer of 2006. Costs and dates are subject to change. We invite you to request a brochure for any or all of the trips please complete our Travel Interest Survey to let us know what types of programs are of interest to you. We hope to see you and your family on one of our upcoming trips.  

As a double major in chemistry and studio art, Sarah Felder '07 spends much of her time on-campus in the lab and the studio. This summer, however, you will find her in a rather unusual location: local farming fields. The recipient of an Emerson Grant, Felder is working on a summer-long photography project on local farming communities under the advisement of Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant.

Craig Latrell, associate professor and chair, department of theatre, travelled to Jakarta, Indonesia, in June and met with his advisee Renita Moniaga '06 to discuss her research on democracy and Islam for her Freeman Foundation student-faculty research grant. Latrell has also been selected to serve as an editor (in the area of contemporary SE Asian theatre) of the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, which will be published in two volumes by Greenwood Press.

Jason Hecht ’06 (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) has money on his mind. Rather than planning strategies to earn money following his upcoming graduation from Hamilton, Hecht is thinking about money in a different light this summer. As a Levitt Fellow he will be studying the future of the European Monetary Union with Alan Cafruny, The Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs.

A Hamilton student was found dead in his room by Campus Safety officers late Friday evening, June 24. President Stewart issued a note to the campus community via e-mail the next day. Excerpts from that note and updated information follow.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner received a grant funded by the US Army Medical Research and Material Command, from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, to support their research with students at Hamilton College. The proposal, titled "Development of a Computational Assay for the Estrogen Receptor," is a one-year grant of $113,620 that supports efforts to use computers to develop a procedure that predicts the binding affinity of potential drugs to the estrogen receptor.