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The Fort Worth Brahmas, a professional hockey team of the CHL, hired former player and Hamilton alumnus Sean Brady '96 as an assistant coach for the upcoming 2003-2004 season. For Brady, who retired as a player in January of 2001, this will be his first opportunity as the coach of a professional hockey team.

Professor of Art Rand Carter delivered the opening lecture at the Friends of Schinkel Triennial II in Berlin.  His presentation was titled "Schinkel and the Pompeian Style" and was part of the "Schinkel and Italien" session.  In July, Carter traveled to Peru with members of the Society of Architectural Historians.  Their itinerary focused on the study of architecture and urbanism including Pre-Columbian times representing a constellation of Pre-Inca cultures and the Inca Empire; the Spanish Colonial Period; and the Republican Period following independence from Spain to present day.

Douglas Ambrose, The Sidney Wertimer Jr. Associate Professor of History, was selected to participate in a seminar on the political history of America. The seminar focused on "the nation-building years that stretch from the ratification of the U.S. Constitution through the first five presidential administrations..." The event was co-sponsored by The Council of Independent Colleges and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and took place at Columbia University.

Assistant Professor of Biology Michael McCormick's doctoral dissertation, "Biotic and Abiotic Transformations of Alkyl Halides in Iron-Reducing Environments," was chosen unanimously as one of two winners of this year's CH2M HILL/AEESP and Parsons Engineering Science/AEESP Doctoral Thesis Award competition.

Hamilton students who have been using computational chemistry in their summer research presented their findings at the MERCURY conference. Christy House '06, Danielle Masse '07, Mary Beth Day '07, Matt Palascak '07 and Becky Shepard '06, who work with George Shields, Winslow Professor of Chemistry, presented their work.

HILLgroup Liaisons and Oral Communication experts will meet with incoming faculty on Tuesday, August 26th from 10 am to noon, as part of New Faculty Orientation. Librarians, Technology Support Specialists, and Oral Communication experts will introduce faculty to our model of coordinated course support.

Around the Hill asked random members of the Hamilton community if they could ask President Stewart one question upon her arrival, what it would be. Here are some of the questions and her answers:

This week, College Hill was overrun with the jovial screams and laughter of hundreds of aspiring young soccer players. Ranging in age from 10 to 17 years, these players come from all walks of life and all areas of the country to stay on campus for one week of intensive training in the multifaceted sport of soccer.

Professor of Economics Christophre Georges published "Adjustment costs, learning, and indeterminacy" in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control vol 28 no. 1, October 2003, pages 101-116.

ITS will hold an open house on Monday, Aug. 4, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the new ITS office, Burke Library, North side. Members of the Hamilton community are also invited to tour the new Multimedia Presentation Center that opened last year on the first floor of Burke. There will be food, demonstrations of technologies currently used at Hamilton, and more. As part of the effort to expand the on-site capacity of the Burke Library for books and periodicals, make room for the integration of the materials from the Science library, and increase the number of faculty study carrels, ITS has moved from the basement to the new office on the third floor of Burke.