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Hamilton College and N.Y. State Police Special Operations teams have begun an emergency preparedness drill on the south side of the campus. No public roads will be affected but the public is advised to proceed with care on College Hill Rd. The public will not be allowed on the south side of campus. The drill will conclude at 1 p.m. today.

Six members of the Hamilton College faculty have been promoted to the rank of professor. Associate professors Debra Boutin, mathematics; Naomi Guttman, English; Shoshana Keller, history; Doran Larson, English; Herm Lehman biology; and Gary Wyckoff, government, were promoted, effective July 1.

Hartford Players Youth Theater presents the musical Hairspray on Wednesday through Saturday, July 14-17, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The production is directed by Jackie Osterman and choreographed by Patrick St. Thomas, and G. Roberts Kolb is music director. Tickets are $15 at the door ($12 for children).

Christian A. Johnson Professor of Biology Ernest Williams recently presented a talk at the 6th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies, held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.

What summer job is better for college students – one that pays well and allows them to save money and pay for expenses, or one that doesn't pay anything but gives them the career-related experience they need to help land a "real" job after college graduation? It's a dilemma that many students face during the summer and sometimes it's difficult to find a job that provides both.

Andrew Beyler and Kate Arpino, both members of the class of 2010 and chemical physics majors, presented their senior thesis research at the 17th International Conference on Dynamic Processes in Excited States of Solids. It took place at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago from June 20-25 and had 130 attendees.

NGC 1999: Spooky Action at a Distance, a work created by Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music Samuel Pellman and Miranda Raimondi '08 was presented at the SCOPE international art festival in Basel from June 15-19 as part of an installation titled "The Light at the End of the Tunnel." The show was conceived as a celebration of the Large Hadron Collider that recently became operational at CERN Labs in Geneva.

Professor of Religious Studies Steve Humphries-Brooks was recently interviewed for BBC World Service about the second coming of Christ. The interview was based on a recent Pew Research poll that indicated four in 10 Americans between the ages of 21 and 26 believe Jesus will return by 2050. Humphries-Brooks discussed why the apocalypse is so important to young Americans.

More than 120 Hamilton students are spending part of their summer conducting research with faculty. From Clinton to Iceland and Green Lakes to Greece, students are collaborating with Hamilton faculty on Levitt Center public affairs-related research, Emerson fellowships and science research.

Students in Hamilton's New York City Program wrapped up their semester with dinner and conversation with Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne.