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It was not your ordinary job interview. Michael Viveiros ’08 (East Greenwich, R.I.) was chatting with his counselor in the Career Center and mentioned he had some experience with computer-based presentations. He was subsequently hired by the center to produce podcasts for their Web site.

Joe Karam, Director of Network and Telecommunications Services in ITS, is giving two presentations on network behavior monitoring. The first presentation will be an on-line webinar with IT Security Magazine and Mirage Networks on Thursday, June 21st at 4:00pm EDT (http://www.itsecurity.com/features/webinar-campus-security-061307/) Karam will also be presenting on the same topic at the annual ResNet Symposium (http://www.resnetsymposium.org/resnet2007) in San Diego, CA on Tuesday, June 26th at 10:30am .

This is “an investigation into various questions of perception and understanding,” wrote studio arts and English major Erin Shapiro ’08 in her February proposal. Four months later, she has an Emerson grant to work on a sculptural exploration of natural elements, concentrating on the relationship between art, materials and audience reaction. She will work with Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented her work at the 1st Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference in Banff Alberta Canada. Boutin's recent work focuses on finding a smallest set of nodes that captures all the symmetries in a network. In this talk Boutin gave upper and lower bounds on the size of such a set when the network is presented with a particular decomposition.

Hamilton College head coach Patty Kloidt has been selected to serve as one of the assistant coaches for Canada's Senior team that will compete at the 2009 International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations (IFWLA) World Cup in Prague, Czech Republic.

Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan was selected for “Made in NY 2007,” an annual juried exhibit that features New York state artists. The show, which opened on June 30, includes 84 contemporary works of art by 68 artists. Cornell University’s art department chair Buzz Spector and Michael A. Sickler, who has been a professor of art and art history at Syracuse University for 35 years, were the jurors. The exhibition at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn, is open through August 25.

Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star By Leslie Norton (July 2007) Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton has authored a second book, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star (McFarland & Co., Inc.). Frederic Franklin was one of the most famous ballets stars of the twentieth century. His performing career reached its peak during his years as a principal with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (1938-57). During that time, such choreographic legends as George Balanchine, Bronislava Nijinska, Agnes de Mille and Sir Frederick Ashton created roles especially for Franklin in their new ballets. In the 60's and 70's, he was Artistic Director of the National Ballet, the first major ballet company in the nation's capital. He then began a new career phase, staging historically significant ballets from the Petipa, Diaghilev, Americana, and Balanchine eras. Franklin has staged works for American Ballet Theatre, London's Royal Ballet, Milan's La Scala and numerous major regional ballet companies across the United States. He has been pivotal in preserving the masterpieces of nineteenth and twentieth-century ballets in their original, authentic form, thus handing down the highly-perishable legacy of the masters to younger generations whom Franklin has inspired with his teaching, coaching and stagings. Now, at the age of ninety-three, Franklin still fills his calandar with performances and stagings. He continues to dance principal character roles with American Ballet Theatre and very recently staged a revival of Sir Frederick Ashton's Devil's Holiday for the Royal Ballet's Ashton centenary. On that same trip to London, in a royal ceremony, Franklin was proclaimed a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II herself. In writing this book, Professor Norton conducted over thiry hours of private interviews with Franklin and another thirty in interviews with Franklin's most noteworthy colleagues. Additional information was obtained through the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the NYPL Newspaper Archives, The Balanchine Foundation in New York City, The George Verdak Dance History Archives in Indianapolis, and Mr. Franklin's personal collection. On July 14 of this year, Franklin and Norton appeared at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival on the Festival's "Pillow Talk" series to discuss the new book.

Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star By Leslie Norton (July 2007) Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton has authored a second book, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star (McFarland & Co., Inc.). Frederic Franklin was one of the most famous ballets stars of the twentieth century. His performing career reached its peak during his years as a principal with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (1938-57). During that time, such choreographic legends as George Balanchine, Bronislava Nijinska, Agnes de Mille and Sir Frederick Ashton created roles especially for Franklin in their new ballets. In the 60's and 70's, he was Artistic Director of the National Ballet, the first major ballet company in the nation's capital. He then began a new career phase, staging historically significant ballets from the Petipa, Diaghilev, Americana, and Balanchine eras. Franklin has staged works for American Ballet Theatre, London's Royal Ballet, Milan's La Scala and numerous major regional ballet companies across the United States. He has been pivotal in preserving the masterpieces of nineteenth and twentieth-century ballets in their original, authentic form, thus handing down the highly-perishable legacy of the masters to younger generations whom Franklin has inspired with his teaching, coaching and stagings. Now, at the age of ninety-three, Franklin still fills his calandar with performances and stagings. He continues to dance principal character roles with American Ballet Theatre and very recently staged a revival of Sir Frederick Ashton's Devil's Holiday for the Royal Ballet's Ashton centenary. On that same trip to London, in a royal ceremony, Franklin was proclaimed a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II herself. In writing this book, Professor Norton conducted over thiry hours of private interviews with Franklin and another thirty in interviews with Franklin's most noteworthy colleagues. Additional information was obtained through the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the NYPL Newspaper Archives, The Balanchine Foundation in New York City, The George Verdak Dance History Archives in Indianapolis, and Mr. Franklin's personal collection. On July 14 of this year, Franklin and Norton appeared at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival on the Festival's "Pillow Talk" series to discuss the new book.

Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star By Leslie Norton (July 2007) Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton has authored a second book, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star (McFarland & Co., Inc.). Frederic Franklin was one of the most famous ballets stars of the twentieth century. His performing career reached its peak during his years as a principal with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (1938-57). During that time, such choreographic legends as George Balanchine, Bronislava Nijinska, Agnes de Mille and Sir Frederick Ashton created roles especially for Franklin in their new ballets. In the 60's and 70's, he was Artistic Director of the National Ballet, the first major ballet company in the nation's capital. He then began a new career phase, staging historically significant ballets from the Petipa, Diaghilev, Americana, and Balanchine eras. Franklin has staged works for American Ballet Theatre, London's Royal Ballet, Milan's La Scala and numerous major regional ballet companies across the United States. He has been pivotal in preserving the masterpieces of nineteenth and twentieth-century ballets in their original, authentic form, thus handing down the highly-perishable legacy of the masters to younger generations whom Franklin has inspired with his teaching, coaching and stagings. Now, at the age of ninety-three, Franklin still fills his calandar with performances and stagings. He continues to dance principal character roles with American Ballet Theatre and very recently staged a revival of Sir Frederick Ashton's Devil's Holiday for the Royal Ballet's Ashton centenary. On that same trip to London, in a royal ceremony, Franklin was proclaimed a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II herself. In writing this book, Professor Norton conducted over thiry hours of private interviews with Franklin and another thirty in interviews with Franklin's most noteworthy colleagues. Additional information was obtained through the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the NYPL Newspaper Archives, The Balanchine Foundation in New York City, The George Verdak Dance History Archives in Indianapolis, and Mr. Franklin's personal collection. On July 14 of this year, Franklin and Norton appeared at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival on the Festival's "Pillow Talk" series to discuss the new book.