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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.

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi wrote an article for the journal Perspectives: Studies in Translatology (vol. 14:4, 2006). The article, “Indexing the past: Visual Language and Translatability in Kon Satoshi’s Millennium Actress,” discusses how traditional subtitling practices have overlooked the visual aspect of film.

Kim Craig '08 (Wilbraham, Mass.), Miranda Raimondi '08 (Rome, Italy) and Danica Wuelfing '10 (Sarasota, Fla.) studied inhibition and negative priming this summer with Associate Professor of Psychology Penny Yee.

Despite the threat of rain and thunderstorms, the inaugural College Hill Golf Tournament got off to a great start. On Friday, August 3, the Great River Golf Club in Milford, CT played host to over 36 alumni, students and friends of the College, who together raised over $1,000 for the 1st Lt. Michael J. Cleary ’03 Scholarship.

Margareth Ferruzola '09, Jordan Fischetti '08 and Wes Gapp worked with Professor of Geosciences Cynthia Domack this summer to collect Utica shale near Little Falls, N.Y. The Utica Shale is more than 400 million years old and world renowned for its trilobite and graptolite fossils. Ferruzola is a geoscience major and Fischetti is majoring in geoarchaelogy.

Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was interviewed for an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick's legal woes, in which Adams coined a new descriptive term, "weblebrity."

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.

Abraham Lincoln is one of this country's most popular presidents, standing out in the middle of the nineteenth century -- not a good period for memorable presidents, said Jerome Noel '09 (Carmel, Ind.), who has a Levitt Fellowship this summer to research Lincoln's rhetoric. The history major hopes to prove that it was Lincoln's extraordinary gift with words which made our 16th president one of our most famous.

"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.