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Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca, Reference Librarian Lynn Mayo and Instructional Technology Specialist Krista Siniscarco presented a session during the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) Conference being held at Hamilton this week. The session, titled “Turn On, Tune In, Print Out: A Professor-Technologist-Librarian-Student Experiment in Multimedia Collaboration,” reported the results of an “experiment” on conducting an entire seminar around multimedia.

Kevin Donegan ’07 (Oneida, New York) applied for and received an Emerson Foundation grant to work on a summer research project in geosciences with Associate Professor of Geology Todd Rayne. Donegan’s project is titled “Determining the special and temporal variability of recharge in the Sauquoit Creek Basin (Oneida County).”

Amanda Hannoosh ‘06 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Hannoosh will pursue studies in Arabic language and literature, specifically poetry, at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. She will use her insider’s view of the linguistic aspects of poetry and of the cultural and historical aspects specific to the culture to gather her own translations of Arabic poetry. This collection may become Hannoosh’s dissertation in the future.

Ntokozo Xaba ’08 (South Africa) worked on the recently published The Africa Journal, a magazine released quarterly by the Corporate Council on Africa’s South African International Business Linkages program that provides a synopsis of important trade policy and political developments in Africa. Xaba published a section within the publication titled “U.S.-Africa Sister City Relationships.”

Evan Savage ’08 (Delmar, New York) is pursuing a 10-week summer research project in organic chemistry titled “Natural Product Extraction of the Sea Sponge Stylotella aurantium” with Robin Kinnel, Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry.

Abhishek Maity ’08 was a 2006 fellow of StartingBloc, a non-profit institute of social innovation for social entrepreneurs. Maity (Kolkata, India) was one of 200 students chosen from a pool of more than 3,000 applicants. He spent the year attending training and networking events at top business schools, including Wharton, Columbia and Yale.

About 70 Seneca Street Elementary School students (Oneida) in grades 3-6 visited Hamilton for a Science Day on June 5. The students completed a reading challenge and this field trip was their reward. The morning began with a presentation by Doug Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology. Weldon showed optical illusions and explained how vision is controlled by the brain and why we see images the way we do.

Alison Fisher ’08 (Medina, Wash.) became aware of the depth of the problem of sex trafficking after a friend returned from a trip to Thailand and brought up the issues. Fisher became “blown away by the magnitude of this subject” and applied for and received an Emerson grant in collaboration with Associate Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson to pursue research on the topic this summer. Fisher’s project is titled “People for Sale: Modern Day Slavery in America.”

Alexandra Millar ’09 was not planning on pursuing science at Hamilton. However, after working in the geosciences department during the spring semester, Millar (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) changed her mind. “I always liked rocks, but I never thought of it as a particular area of study,” said Millar, who is planning on declaring a major in geoscience as a sophomore. Now, Millar is spending 10 weeks this summer working with Associate Professor of Geosciences David Bailey on a research project involving kimberlite dikes in central New York.

Meghan Dunn '06 was a guest on WAMC Northeast Public Radio's "The Best of Our Knowledge" on May 22. Dunn, a chemistry major, taped a studio interview with show’s host Glenn Busby in March as part of a National Science Foundation story about women in science and math. In the interview, Dunn describes why she likes Hamilton's size, the importance of her research on water clusters, gender equity in science and helping to get more young women into science. Dunn will enter graduate school in the fall at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in its atmospheric/environmental chemistry program. The interview can be heard on the Web; Dunn’s segment begins around 16:00.