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Avery Rizio '09 of Walpole, Mass. spent five weeks working with Stone Professor of Psychology Douglas Weldon as part of the STEP/Dreyfus program for incoming first-year students. She worked alongside Hamilton students Christina Nemeth '06 and Erica Colligan '06 in a neuroscience research lab.

Sharfi Farhana of West Haven, Conn., and Tim Currier of Danvers, Mass., both '09, are participating in five weeks of summer research in a neuroscience lab with Associate Professor of Biology Herman Lehman as part of the STEP/Dreyfus program for incoming freshmen interested in the sciences. "I was attracted to the STEP program mainly because I had prior research experience and really loved it. I figured this would be a great way to not only do more research, but also to meet other students, professors, and familiarize myself with the campus, all before orientation," said Currier.

Twenty Hamilton students working with Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner presented their work at the fourth MERCURY Computational Chemistry conference on July 28. MERCURY (Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry) group is an organization of investigators, faculty and undergraduate students, at eight liberal arts colleges in the United States. The conference was held at Hamilton from July 27 to July 29.