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Hamilton College students, alumni, faculty and administrators took part in the 25th annual Utica Boilermaker 15k Road Race on Sunday, July 14. The nation’s largest 15K road race, the Boilermaker is the premier event of the National Distance Running Hall of Fame’s annual Hall of Fame Weekend. The race consistently attracts elite runners from all over the world, including Olympians and world record holders. The Boilermaker features distance running’s most enthusiastic fans, as well as the sport’s most enjoyable post-race party, hosted at The Matt Brewing Company.

Rob Gordon '03, Ryan Palmitesso '03, Robert Parker '04, and Jeffrey Rubino '05 are four of the science fellows working on science research with Tim Elgren, associate dean of faculty and associate professor of chemistry, this summer at Hamilton. The work they are doing is based on research students have completed in the past and a paper Elgren recently published.

Adjunct Professor of Music Lauralyn Kolb is instructing 14 young musicians in an intensive week of learning the collaborative aspects of art song performance. The day camp, being held on the Hamilton campus, concludes with a public performance on Saturday, July 13 at the Stone Presbyterian Church in Clinton. The concert is free and open to the public. This is the fifth year of this camp that was founded by Kolb and Tina Toglia, piano instructor.

On Wednesday, July 10, more than 300 teens from 14 New York counties converged on Hamilton College for a New York State Department of Health sponsored Reality Check Summit. Reality Check is a teen-led, adult-supported anti-tobacco movement in its third year.

More than 100 girls are taking part in the 2002 two-week ice hockey camp, July 7-19, directed by men’s varsity ice hockey coach Phil Grady. Women's head coaches from Manhattanville College, Utica College, Nichols College and Tilton Prep School join Grady. The top-ranked camp hosts girls from 11 states. Two members of the 2002 Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team, Andrea Kilborne and Julie Chu, are former students at the camp.

Hamilton students and professors were recently featured in the Spring 2002 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) publication, access. The article, written by Katherine A. Caponi, is complemented by the group's model of esperamicin A1 found on the publication’s cover. Dreyfus Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Chemistry Steven Feldgus is very proud of the group’s publication in the supercomputing periodical. “This might be the only time that NCSA has done a story on an undergraduate centered research project,” said Feldgus. The story tells how the NCSA is arming the Hamiltonians with the supercomputing resources necessary to engage in the war on cancer. According to the article, “Hamilton College joins the front line in computational research on enediynes, naturally occurring molecules commonly called biological warheads for their ability to bind to and split tumors’ DNA backbones.” Also credited in the article were Chantelle Rien '03, Beth Hayes ’02, David Kelland ’05 and Professor of Chemistry George Shields. These and other students are continuing this line of cancer research this summer through an assortment of local and federal grants.

The Hamilton College Volleyball program and head coach Susan Keller are hosting a week long volleyball camp for girls. The camp is being held July 7 through July 12 on the Hamilton campus and features outstanding instruction by college, junior college and high school coaches from across the region. Director Susan Keller, head coach of Hamilton’s softball and volleyball teams since 1999, is joined by assistant director Marcia Laidlaw. Laidlaw is one of the most recognizable and successful coaches in the area with over 600 career wins between Canastota HS and Mohawk Valley Community College. The staff is also comprised of coaches from Union College, Skidmore College, College of Saint Rose, SUNY Cobleskill and area high school coaches. The 70 campers take part in daily conditioning, skills sessions, team building, jump training, mental aspects, game play, video study and other activities. The last time the camp was held was in 1997. For more information on next year’s camp and other inquires please feel free to Contact Coach Keller at 315-859-4806, or sekeller@hamilton.edu.

A new book, Critical Perspectives on Art History, by Associate Professor of Art John McEnroe and Associate Professor of Art Deborah Pokinski demonstrates that art history has significant connections to real life. The book introduces students to the complexity of issues and approaches that characterize the study of Western art history today.

Hamilton College is making the SAT-1 optional for high school students seeking admission to the highly selective, national liberal arts college.

Hamilton alumnus Hugh "Tripp" Jones, '88, was featured in a Boston Globe article highlighting the work of his organization, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassInc). Celebrating its fifth anniversary, MassInc is dedicated to promoting the vitality of the state's middle class. Promoted as a "non-partisan, evidence-based organization" MassInc has used research, education and journalism to further its four main policy initiatives of "economic prosperity", "safe neighborhoods", "lifelong learning," and "civic renewal." Jones commented, "For me, though, this is pretty basic...I love the business of politics and public policy, but I want a healthy family life, too." He continues, "I've seen what running for office does to people...having kids puts all the other stuff in perspective."