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Kathryn Plummer '08 is well into her third summer as an intern, and she admits that she likes this one best. Plummer, a government major, has previously worked in a senatorial office, a psychology research lab, a law firm, and a press. This summer she is at Arnold Worldwide's Boston office as a brand promotions intern.

Ethan Woods '09 (Stratford, N.Y.) started out his summer with a research survey into sustainable fuels, but he quickly decided to narrow his topic and focus on biofuels instead. The rising junior has a Levitt Fellowship this summer to combine his interests in environmentalism and economics in research on biofuels as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats gained a majority in the both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Kye Lippold '10 (South Burlington, Vt.) noted a similarity to the 1994 "Republican Revolution" when the Republican Party gained control of both legislative bodies. This summer Lippold is working with the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner to investigate broader trends in the U.S. electorate and whether the 2006 election results are the signs of a larger movement in the country's political character.

Our unofficial correspondent e-mailed in from Bosnia-Herzegovina to talk about the heat, the people and the coffee. "The to-go menu has not been developed quite yet," wrote recent grad Lauren Hayden '07. "What is the rush for anyway?" Living and working in Zenica, the fourth-largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hayden has immersed herself in a different country and a different lifestyle, one where the remains of war are starkly visible, where hospitality and food are paramount and tightly linked, and where there is always time for coffee.

Leeann Brigham '09 decided to make a change this summer. The native of Troy, N.Y., heard about an internship position in the UCLA neuroscience lab and decided to head across the country "to try something completely different -- live in a new place, work with new people." Transplanting is never easy, but Brigham made the right choice: she loves her work in the lab.

Last March, Emily Pallin, a rising senior from Grisworld, Conn., was a leader for Hamilton's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip where she and a group of students traveled to New Orleans to help the reconstruction effort. Pallin remained concerned with the city's rebuilding process, and she returned this summer as co-coordinator of Hamilton's first Summer Service Trip. Pallin, however, went back to New Orleans in two capacities; a dedicated volunteer, she also has a Levitt Fellowship to study the reconstruction of the New Orleans school system.

Working in a field where she can use her major is a summer job dream-come-true for Rani Doyon '08 of South Falls, N.Y. This summer, Doyon is an intern in the finance department of the SYDA Foundation -- an experience she said was vastly superior to her work last year in a Utica insurance agency.

In an international society, we encounter works in translation but we seldom consider the effort the translator has made to create or re-create the text. Erica Fultz '08 (Carlisle, Pa.), however, has acquired first-hand experience of rendering a text. Working with Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kyoko Omori, Fultz has an Emerson grant to spend her summer translating a Japanese short story into English.

"I prefer to call them gender performers," said Jessica Goldberg '08 (Pittsburgh, Pa.) of the male and female artists who make masculinity or femininity part of their act. Sociology major Goldberg has an Emerson grant this summer in collaboration with Assistant Professor of Sociology Yvonne Zylan, to research female lesbian drag king culture from a sociological and feminist perspective.

Internships are taking Hamilton students far afield this year, from urban India to rural Hardwick, Vermont, where Emma Stewart '09 (Colchester, Vt.) works as an intern for Vermont Soy and Vermont Natural Coatings, two local ventures based in Hardwick.