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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS) acknowledged Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung's academic accomplishments of 2008-2009 and awarded her the full-period extension of the SSRC-JSPS Fellowship. As a result, her fellowship period is extended to 2008-2010, the maximum period the organizations could offer.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole L. Snyder, was invited to present a poster titled "The Synthesis of Carbohydrate-Porphyrin Conjugates as Potential Asymmetric Catalysts" at the 2009 Gordon Conference on Carbohydrates held June 14-19 at the Tilton School in Tilton, N.H.

During the last Ice Age, the whole country of Iceland was covered in a thick sheet of ice. From an aerial view, most of the island would have appeared to be in a state of frigid serenity. But under the ice, chaos ensued – massive volcanoes entombed in the ice erupted often, causing the overlying ice to melt. As the hot lava erupted into cold water, explosions occurred, depositing fragmented rock and glass with few lava flows.

Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman gave a poetry reading of new work as part of The Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's in Toronto, Canada, on June 2.. Guttman's latest collection, Wet Apples, Wet Blood, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007.

A change in program has been announced for the June 20 Hamilton College Arboretum Workshop. The new program will feature area gardener Dottie White, owner of Strawberry Geranium, Inc., Florist and Garden Shoppe, Sauquoit, N.Y., for an informal discussion of gardening tips and tales. It will take place from 10-11 a.m. at the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered a paper, "The Absence of Her Voice from that Concord," during a session on the "implied author" at the International Conference on Narrative in Birmingham, England, on June 5. The session, which grew out of debates about the implied author generated at the 2008 Narrative Conference, offered three significantly different perspectives on the validity of the concept, originally developed by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction.

Hamilton College is teaming with the Utica Community Food Bank to donate used mattresses that will be given to families in need. About two years ago the Food Bank began giving away household items along with food, but always had a shortage of furniture. According to Terry Hawkridge, assistant director of Physical Plant, the College throws away some 200 used residence hall mattresses each year. Hamilton cleaned and stored the mattresses and the Food Bank made its first pick-up on June 17.

Sokhna Aminata Diop '11 says it feels unusual to wear a suit and United Nations badge every day. In fact, she never once thought she would get the summer internship that she did – working for the UN was only a dream.

"Getting High on the Himalayas," a review of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes published in The New York Review of Books, declared the book an "authentic history" and "a big book in every sense." The book  is co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester Professor of History Stewart Weaver.

"I like rocks," said Manique Talaia-Murray '12 with a bashful grin. It might sound like a dull pursuit, but to Talaia-Murray and her research partner, Travis Tomaselli '11, rocks can uncover the past in interesting ways. They say that the chemical contents of a rock reveal a lot about its previous whereabouts, and their collaborative research project is a perfect example.