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Some people never stop. Michael Mortimer ’07 (Montague, N.J.) spent last summer based on campus researching the friendship between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. This summer, he finds himself several hundred miles south and several hundred years later as, with Peter Cannavo, visiting assistant professor of government, he researches human-induced saltwater intrusions in the Upper Floridian aquifer.

Elena Filekova ’08 (Gabrovo, Bulgaria) is a double major in mathematics and economics and has taken numerous Hamilton economics courses in which she learned, understandably, a great deal about the U.S. economy. She is also well-read in EU economic development. She was surprised, however, to learn how little had been published about her own country of Bulgaria, set to enter the EU in 2007. What was the preparation for this entry doing to Bulgaria’s economy? What effects would this have on states already in the EU or future members? No one had dealt with these questions and Filekova, interested, applied for and was granted a Levitt Research Fellowship to study the macroeconomic effects of the Bulgarian integration into the European Union.