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Andy Vermilyea, a rising sophomore at Hamilton College, is nearing the completion of his ten-week summer science research project on the chemistry department's new ITC (Isothermal Titration Calorimeter). The ITC is the latest in calorimetry technology, but its accuracy has been called into question due to data incompatible with published results. Andy has undertaken the task of resolving this conflict.

Rob Parker, a rising sophomore at Hamilton College, passed up the opportunity to spend his summer lounging at the beach in order to participate in Hamilton's summer science research program. Parker has committed ten weeks to an internship in the chemistry department studying the encapsulation of enzymes in a sol-gel matrix.

Rob Parker, a rising sophomore at Hamilton College, passed up the opportunity to spend his summer lounging at the beach in order to participate in Hamilton's summer science research program. Parker has committed ten weeks to an internship in the chemistry department studying the encapsulation of enzymes in a sol-gel matrix.

Rob Parker, a rising sophomore at Hamilton College, passed up the opportunity to spend his summer lounging at the beach in order to participate in Hamilton's summer science research program. Parker has committed ten weeks to an internship in the chemistry department studying the encapsulation of enzymes in a sol-gel matrix.

Christie Bell Vilsack, a 1972 graduate of Kirkland College, and Iowa's First Lady, particiatepd in First Ladies Build, a project of Habitat for Humanity. The purpose of event was to empower women to meet the challenge of substandard housing head on by picking up hammers and building. Current and former first ladies and women governors led the women of their states in the effort to build at least one house in or near the state capital. The project, completed this month, resulted in 68 homes for American families.

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Professor of Geology Eugene Domack, Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Geology Barbara Tewksbury and Associate Professor of Geology David Bailey were awarded $75,399 from the National Science Foundation’s CCLI program to support a networked microscopy classroom in the Geology Department. Domack also received a $25,000 grant from the National Science Foundation supporting an international conference examining global warming and geologic changes in the Antarctic Peninsula. This grant will be matched 1:1 by Hamilton’s Environmental Studies Program.

Action-packed and adventure-filled, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is director Steven Spielberg's loving homage to the Saturday matinee cliffhanger serials of his childhood. Starring Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliot, Karen Allen and others. Music by John Williams.

Author and educator Lorene Cary will present a lecture, "Living to Tell the Tale: Experiences of an African-American Woman at Elite Educational Institutions," on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. Lorene Cary's first book, Black Ice (1991), has been called "the most beautifully written and moving African-American autobiographical narrative since Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." A memoir of her years first as a black female student, and then teacher, at St. Paul's, an exclusive New England boarding school, Black Ice was chosen as a notable book for 1992 by the American Library Association. Currently a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania where she was a 1998 recipient of the Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cary has lectured throughout the U.S. For more information, please call the Kirkland Project office at x4288. Sponsors: Kirkland Project, Office of the President, Kirkland Endowment Advisory Committee, Higher Education Opportunity Program, Dean of Faculty Office, Dean of Students Office, Africana Studies and the Teacher Education Program.

Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement, a new book by Assistant Professor of Sociology Mitchell Stevens, is featured in the Oct. 11 Chronicle of Higher Education's Hot Type column.