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Hebron Academy has appointed Louise Roy '10 as one of the school’s newest faculty. A 2005 graduate of Hebron, she is returning to the school as a science teacher, admissions associate, and assistance soccer and hockey coach.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Ashleigh Smythe and Kelly Fitzsimmons ’10 recently presented papers at the Helminthological Society of Washington meeting in Washington, D.C. The Helminthological Society is the oldest parasitology society in the U.S. and this meeting coincided with the Society’s 100th anniversary.

Yan Kit Pang ’10 returned to Hamilton to teach hip-hop in Associate Professor of Dance Elaine Heekin’s advanced contemporary dance and theory class on Oct. 11. Pang is involved with the Hamilton Center for the Arts, a multi-focus arts facility in Hamilton, N.Y., where he hopes to develop and build a dance department.

Ashley Chang '10 is one of 170 student ambassadors at the U.S.A. Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo in China. The world’s fair attracts as many as 500,000 visitors a day, 35,000 of whom visit the U.S.A. Pavilion. Over 6 million guests have entered the pavilion this year.

This August, Julianne Tylko '10 began a year of service in Chicago with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC).

Professor of English and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman and Watson Fellow Max Wall '10 presented a paper at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, in July. The theme for 2010 was "Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods," and the paper "Sausage-in-Oil: Preserving Italian Culture in Utica, New York" discussed the continued cultural significance among Italian-Americans of making dry-cured sausages in the home to share with family and friends.

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.

Thanks to the generous support of young alumni, Hamilton is pleased to name Rebecca Fornaby '10 of Chappaqua, N.Y. as its 29th GOLD Scholar. Becca recently sat down to reflect on her Hamilton experience so far. "Hamilton’s alumni community has always impressed me. The College changes quickly (even in the four short years I’ve been here), which makes it important for alumni and current students to keep an open dialogue. Stay in touch!"

The spring 2010 edition of Insights, the journal that features the best of undergraduate social science research papers at Hamilton, has been published by the Levitt Center. Edited and refereed by students and Associate Professor of Government P. Gary Wyckoff, Insights features articles by J. Max Currier '10, Lauren Howe '13, Richard Maass '12 and Julie Melowsky '11.

Tom Nevers '10 and his senior thesis advisor, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Camille Jones, have published an article titled "Temperature-dependent distortions of the host structure of propylene oxide clathrate hydrate," published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (published in the March 11 print issue and Feb. 17 online). The article is a result of a detailed structural study they performed of clathrate hydrate, an arrangement of atoms and molecules in an ice-like compound.