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Ryan Burke '04 was featured in a Kennebec Journal (Maine) article (8/15/04) about the cross-country bike trip he's taking with fellow Hamilton graduates to support cancer-prevention programs. Burke, Brian Alward '04 and Cameron Feist '04 left New Jersey in July and hope to reach Portland, Ore. by October. According to the article, "The trio -- all recent graduates of Hamilton College in upstate New York -- started by raising money in the months leading up to their July departure. The idea for a cross-country cycling trip started as a way for three friends to spend time together after graduation and before they start jobs in the fall. Then, they decided to incorporate fund raising to support cancer research, Burke said during phone interview Thursday from Harrisonville, Mo."

New York State Route 12B, the main thoroughfare into Clinton from the north, is closed about one mile north of the Village so that workers can replace a 100-year-old stone culvert. Detour signs direct traffic into Clinton via Limberlost Road (Route 5B), Route 5, and Route 233, adding about five minutes to the trip. The road is expected to reopen before Labor Day, but after students return to campus for the start of the academic year on Monday, Aug. 30. Visitors approaching campus from the south should not be affected by the closure.

Schuyler Chapman '03 participated in the Mass Red Ribbon Ride, a three-day journey from the Berkshires to Salem, Mass. The Mass Red Ribbon Ride is sponsored collaboratively by 18 agencies who serve HIV/AIDS communities throughout the state. The money will be used to assist the 15,000 people in Mass. who have contracted HIV.

Alexandra Geertz, a 2004 graduate of Hamilton, was recently awarded The Marleigh Grayer Ryan Student Prize sponsored by the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS). The competition was open to all undergraduate and graduate students at a college or university in New York State who study any geographic region of Asia, Asia in diaspora, and Asian American studies.

Heidi Ravven, professor of religious studies, received an International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics Best Paper Award for her paper, "Spinoza's Systems Theory of Ethics." She recently delivered the paper at the organization's international conference in Baden-Baden, Germany.  Consequently, Dr. George Lasker, president of the IIAS, has offered to devote a symposium at next year's annual IIAS conference to Ravven's work on Spinoza and ethics.

Armed with a gallon of liquid nitrogen connected to a small vacuum device, Tim Weaver '05 set off for a local bee farm in the beginning of summer. Weaver vacuumed the bees into the liquid nitrogen, where they were instantly frozen. Now, he is working with Tom Heacock '06 and Associate Professor of Biology Herm Lehman to examine TBH and octopamine levels in insects, which may help them explain how genes and behavior are related.

Hamilton College hosted the 3rd MERCURY Conference in Computational Chemistry from July 29-31. This national conference featured seven talks by invited speakers and 40 poster presentations by undergraduates, and was organized by Hamilton College Professor and Chair of Chemistry George C. Shields.

The new international terminal at Boston's Logan Airport will be the temporary home of several Josh Simpson pieces of glasswork for the next six months. Simpson, a 1972 graduate of Hamilton, is a contemporary glass artist. The Society of Arts and Crafts will display one of Josh’s largest Megaworlds along with a New Mexico Super Platter and Megavase at Logan Airport. Collections of Simpson's work are on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; Corning Museum of Glass; White House Collection of American Crafts; Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.  

Rear Admiral Richard J. Wallace, a 1975 graduate of Hamilton, has assumed command of the Naval Reserve Air Systems Program. As director of the reserve component of the Naval Air Systems Command, Wallace also serves as the deputy assistant commander, Naval Air Systems Command. He served as Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Full Spectrum Dominance, and is presently chief scientist for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren, who is president of the national Council on Undergraduate Research, was interviewed about the topic in the San Diego Union-Tribune (8/9/04). "It's been exported out of the sciences, and faculty in all areas are considering parts of research accessible to undergraduates," said Elgren.