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I read with interest the President's Message in the fall 2005 Bulletin regarding the representation of women students and faculty at the college. Once again, HMC appears to have got it right, and rather long before many other institutions.

My class of 1966 had four excellent young women out of 58 (7 percent), and I recall Penny Gach '67, who later married Pat Barrett '66, and Shirley Sandoz '67. I cannot say that I recall a lot of "going along to get along." What I do recall is a lot of young people of both genders scratching to keep their GPAs north of a C.

My wife, Pat, was also on campus as well working in the snack bar and cafeteria. We got married after my last freshman final. Dean Hotchkiss had some misgivings, but the college went along, and after 42 years, it appears that we all got that one right as well. Pat was a "den mother" to a fair number of those testosterone-laden young men.

We had to live off campus, of course. I gather that the new dorms have accommodations for married couples. Another good move.

Bill Musser '66
Uxbridge, Mass.

Learning to Lead:
Leadership education is focus of $2 million Annenberg gift

At the heart of the mission of Harvey Mudd College is developing student leadership. One organization recently providing support for this endeavor is the Annenberg Foundation, which has granted $2 million to endow the Fund for Leadership Development. This permanent endowment will support the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Visiting Professorship in Leadership and Management as well as associated programming, including courses, seminars, projects and consultations for students, faculty and administrators. Visiting professors will be proven leaders from business and public life as well as intellectuals who will contribute to the understanding and practice of leadership.

"At Harvey Mudd College, we are not just training engineers, scientists and mathematicians who can do routine calculations. Society needs technical experts who can also be leaders, innovators and responsible decision makers," said Daniel Goroff, vice president and dean of the faculty. "We are therefore very grateful to the Annenberg Foundation for so thoughtfully providing a way to strengthen the part of our program concerned with leadership development. I look forward to the important work that will be done with students, with faculty, and, especially with administrators like me by these distinguished new Walter and Leonore Annenberg Visiting Professors."

The Annenberg Foundation has been a longtime supporter of the college, providing funds for renovation of academic space and for student scholarships.

Mathematics Department Named Best in North America

Heralded as an outstanding example of an exemplary program, the HMC Department of Mathematics became the first recipient of what will be an annual award given by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

The new $1,200 award, recognizing outstanding departments of mathematical science in North America, was presented to HMC in January at the AMS/ Mathematical Association of America Joint Meetings.

"This prize is the culmination of 50 years of hard work by our mathematics faculty, including Robert James, first mathematics chair and professor, and by professors Robert Borelli, Courtney Coleman, Melvin Henriksen, Robert Ives, Henry Krieger, Alvin White and former Chair and Professor Michael Moody, to name a few," said Alfonso Castro, current chair of the department, which is made up of just 12 faculty members. "This is a great honor that will do marvelous things for us, including making our mathematics graduates even more marketable and attracting additional quality students who will know they are coming to the best place there is for undergraduate education."

Currently more than one out of every six graduating seniors at HMC majors in mathematics or in the joint majors of mathematics and computer science or mathematical biology. About 60 percent of these math majors continue their education at the graduate level.

The HMC Mathematics Clinic has served as a trailblazer and a model for other programs for more than 30 years. The innovative program connects teams of math majors with real-world problems and gives students an in-depth research experience as well as a glimpse at possible future careers. Undergraduate research is a theme throughout the mathematics program, as exemplified by the over 20 papers published in the last three years by HMC mathematics faculty with student co-authors.

The Department of Mathematics promotes the pleasures of mathematics so well that many nonmajors participate in the weekly Putnam Seminar on problem solving, leading to an unusually large number of Mudders taking the Putnam exam each year. The citation notes that the Putnam Seminar's work has produced consistently outstanding performances in the Putnam Exam, with HMC ranking in the top ten nationwide in 2001, 2002 and 2003 (and just missing in 2004 with an 11th-place finish).

HMC mathematics students have won an impressive 19 National Science Foundation graduate fellowships over the last six years.

The department also devotes serious effort toward outreach to low-income and under-represented minority communities. This work includes programs aimed at stimulating interest in mathematics and science at nearby Pomona High School. The department has also run a workshop focusing on creative methods for teaching mathematics in Jamaica for Jamaican high school mathematics teachers.

Lesley Ward, a faculty member since 1997 and organizer of the first HMC Mathematics Conference (now an annual event), remarked that the ground-breaking Mathematics Clinic program has been central to the department's success. "Other vital elements that have helped our small department achieve at this level are attention to detail, strong organizational skills, transparency, good flow of information, careful planning, teamwork and our commitment to working by consensus," she said.

The AMS promotes mathematical research and its uses, strengthens mathematical education, and fosters awareness and appreciation of mathematics. The Society has over 28,000 individual members and 550 institutional members in the United States and around the world.

Trustees Update
New Appointees

Alumni and parents are among those elected to the Board of Trustees since May.
Wayne Drinkward '73, president and CEO, Hoffman Corporation
Ray Grainger '88, executive vice president, Global Services and Strategic Partnerships, InQuira, Inc.
J. Dale Harvey, vice president, Capital Research and Management Company
Dylan Hixon, chief investment officer, APH Group, First Republic Bank
Andrea J. Leebron-Clay P99, executive vice president and co-owner, Hilltop Healthcare, Inc.
Anne F. Kroeker Leeds P06, community activist and philanthropist

Integrien Selects Patmore

Barry Patmore, HMC Board Member since 2000, was appointed in October to the advisory board of Integrien, a provider of integrity management solutions. Patmore is a 35-year veteran of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He was a global managing partner of the business process competency practice at Accenture, led development of the Method/1 systems development methodology, and collaborated with business-management theorist Michael Hammer on Accenture's business process reengineering principles and methods. Patmore is now a management consultant and advisor to several upcoming technology companies.

The mathematical and physical properties of soap bubbles were the topic of discussion in an October lecture given by Frank Morgan, popular math columnist, TV show host and award-winning professor at Williams College. Morgan researches minimal surfaces and studies the behavior and structure of minimizers in various dimensions and settings.

All According to Plan

This fall, HMC groundskeepers extended the native landscaping along Platt Boulevard from Hoch-Shanahan Dining Commons to the Garrett House. The new regionally appropriate, low-water-use landscaping was proposed by a student landscaping Clinic in 2001, and HMC consultants from Sasaki Associates then incorporated the water-saving ideas into the HMC Campus Master Plan. It was recommended that all landscaping on the periphery of campus be shifted to this model. Groundskeeping staff have been gradually incorporating this approach with several new projects each year, most notably the Class of 2003 Reflective Garden between South and North residence halls. "We're making an impressive cutback on water usage," said Michael Barber, grounds services manager, "and we're just going to continue doing it. We're saving $20-30 thousand a year off the water bill with the irrigation system and saving maybe 100,000 gallons of water every year."

Faculty News

McFadden Branches Out to Join Tree of Life

Vivian and D. Kenneth Baker Professor of Biology Catherine McFadden is a member of a team of research scientists who will help the National Science Foundation (NSF) assemble a framework phylogeny, or Tree of Life, for all 1.75 million described species.

The NSF states that one of the most profound ideas to emerge in modern science is Charles Darwin's concept that all of life, from the smallest microorganism to the largest vertebrate, is connected through genetic relatedness in a vast genealogy. This "Tree of Life" summarizes all we know about biological diversity and underpins much of modern biology, yet many of its branches remain poorly known and unresolved.

To help scientists discover what Darwin described as the tree's "everbranching and beautiful ramifications," the NSF has awarded $17 million in "Assembling the Tree of Life" grants to researchers at more than 25 institutions. Their studies range from investigations of entire pieces of DNA to assemble the bacterial branches; to understanding the most diverse group of terrestrial predators, the spiders; to the relationships of birds and dinosaurs.

The task of McFadden and nine other team members from seven colleges and universities and the Smithsonian Institution will be to investigate the origins of the phylum Cnidaria-one of the two most primitive groups of animals on earth-which includes such diverse forms as jellyfish, hydra, sea anemones and corals. They will investigate the phylogeny of Cnidaria by developing new molecular markers and gathering large amounts of DNA sequence data from an extensive sampling of cnidarian taxa. There are more than 10,000 described species of cnidarians.

Other goals of the team's five-year, $2.85 million project are to: characterize and classify nematocysts (the specialized stinging cells of cnidarians) in a comparative context; develop culture conditions for select cnidarian species to identify new model organisms for the study of gene expression; build cnidarian museum collections through field work; assemble a Cnidarian Tree of Life database modeled after the existing Hexacoral database; contribute to museum exhibits on cnidarian evolution; and hold a symposium on cnidarian phylogeny.

For the past 10 years McFadden, whose area of expertise is octocoral phylogeny, has been using molecular data to try to understand the evolutionary relationships and species boundaries among groups of soft corals from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean and, most recently, the tropical Indo-West Pacific. A number of current and former HMC undergraduates have worked on these projects and are co-authors on a variety of publications that have resulted.

The NSF award provides new opportunities for collaborative research among members of the cnidarian research community and training for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Selected HMC students will participate during the summer in molecular biology lab work and the input of historical literature into the database that is housed at the University of Kansas.

McFadden will select students for this project "who are meticulous and able to pay close attention to detail," she said. "Most of the octocoral tissue we will be working with comes from irreplaceable museum specimens, and extracting DNA from it requires great care and steady hands."

According to the NSF, the Tree of Life is a picture of historical relationships that explains all similarities and differences among plants, animals and microorganisms. Because it explains biological diversity, the tree has proven useful in many fields, such as choosing
experimental systems for biological research, determining which genes are common to many kinds of organisms and which are unique, tracking the origin and spread of emerging diseases and their vectors, bio-prospecting for pharmaceutical and agrochemical products, developing databases for genetic information, and evaluating risk factors for species conservation and ecosystem restoration.

Art Named Best in U.S.

They say he "squares numbers faster than most mortals can say, 'Where's my calculator?'" This is just one reason Arthur Benjamin, professor of mathematics, was named "America's Best Math Whiz" by Reader's Digest magazine, Best of America issue, May 2005. He was also recognized for his lively teaching and presentations that get kids of all ages fired up about math.

Neural Signals

Anna Ahn, assistant professor of biology, spoke at Pomona College this fall on "Is Muscle a Black Box? Translating Neural Signals into Behavior."

The Rural Life

While on sabbatical this year, Hal Barron, Louisa and Robert Miller Professor of Humanities, is writing about depictions of rural life in silent film. He will speak on this topic at the annual meeting of the Agricultural History Society of which Barron is currently president. Another major project, for which he received a Mellon Odyssey Grant, is on the impact of ethnic food on American culture.

Deformation Studies

Lori Bassman, assistant professor of engineering, is a member of the research team whose paper about a 3-D speckle interferometric microscope was accepted by Applied Optics, the most widely read journal in the optics field. Bassman and student co-authors Laurel Fullerton '07, Eric Flynn '05, Tim Smith '05, Tommy Leung '05 and Zamir Lalji '04 have been using the microscope to study local-ized deformations in polycrystalline metals.

Have Pollution, Will Travel

How pollution gets transported in Lake Michigan and where it ends up was the topic of the article "Sediment transport model validation in Lake Michigan" by Mary Cardenas, associate profes-sor of engineering. The article was published this winter in the Journal of Great Lakes Research. Said Cardenas, "Most of the pollutants in Lake Michigan and other waterbodies like this tend to be associated with the sediments (pollutants adhere to the sediments), so if one can predict where the sediment goes, you can figure out what is happening to the pollutants." Cardenas began working on the Lake Michigan project during a 2002-03 sabbatical at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratories in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Critchell's Career

Pilot and former Olympian Iris Critchell, instructor emerita of the Bates Aeronautic Program, spoke this fall on "Science Studies and My Career: From Fabric Airplanes to Flying into the 21st Century." During the talk, sponsored by Scripps College and the Joint Science Program, she reflected on her 1936 Olympic swimming team experience and shared the ways in which a science education played a major part as she developed a career where none existed. Critchell has been flying more than 60 years and was the first woman to complete the Civil Pilot Training program at the University of Southern California.

Tumor-Modeling Advances

Lisette de Pillis, professor of mathematics and one of three women investigators working on a project involving mathematical modeling of cancer growth and treatment strategies, has been sharing news about the work.

She spoke in October at the annual Sampson Lectures at Bates College in Maine this October. In December, she was co-organizer of a conference on Tumor-Immune Modeling that she developed and received funding for through the American Institute of Mathematics. With colleagues Ami Radunskaya of the Pomona College Mathematics Department, and Charles Wiseman, head of the Immunology Department at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles, de Pillis designed a workshop that brought together mathe-maticians, laboratory researchers and clinicians to discuss and make progress on "this very large and important problem."

de Pillis, Weiqing Gu, HMC associate professor of mathematics, and K. Renee Fister, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Murray State University, were awarded a National Science Foundation grant this past spring to work on creating and testing new combination cancer chemo-immunotherapies.

Thrilled Over Board

E-155 students are using a new microcontroller board this year thanks to the efforts of engineering faculty members David Harris and Sarah Harris (no relation). They designed several inexpensive evaluation boards to be used in digital design courses. The boards are used to mount FPGAs or microcontrollers and the appropriate support circuitry. The duo won the best poster award for this project at
the Microelectronics Systems Education conference last summer.

A New Melody Maker

Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor), a program to assist student jazz musicians, is now available via free download at http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/. Conceptualized by Robert Keller, Csilla and Walt Foley Professor of Computer Science and jazz musician, and designed by Keller, Belinda Thom, assistant professor of computer science, Stephen Jones and Aaron Wolin, the program allows users to construct for themselves written-out solos similar to what might be improvised. Keller says the objective is not to memorize the solo, but rather to learn more about specific tunes and solo construction by going through the process in a formal way. The program runs on PC, Mac and Linux.

Experimental Practice

Andrea Loettgers, 2005-06 Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor of Science, Technology and Society, organized the workshop "A New Form of Experiment" held in October. The workshop brought together researchers from philosophy, history and social studies of science, as well as practitioners from various scientific disciplines, economics and biology, who focused on the similarities and differences in methodological, epistemological and social aspects regarding the scientific practice of modeling and simulation and experimental practice.

Paradox Talk

Secondary math teachers in the greater Los Angeles area were among the participants who enjoyed Susan Martonosi's lecture on "Probabilistic Paradoxes" Dec. 11 on campus. Martonosi, assistant professor of mathematics, explored some famous "and fun" probabilistic conundrums and showed how one's intuitive explanation can often be the wrong one. She included a discussion of a real-world situation in which a probabilistic paradox arises in the context of passenger screening at airports. The lecture was sponsored by the HMC Professional Development and Outreach Group (http://www.math.hmc.edu/pdo/).

Listen Up, Peoples

William Alves' book, "Music of the Peoples of the World" is now available. More information can be found on the publisher's Web site at www.wadsworth.com/index.html (search for "Alves"). Also, an article by Alves, associate professor of music, will appear this winter in the Computer Music Journal.

Bridging Research & Practice

Paul Steinberg, assistant professor of political science and environmental policy and director of HMC's Center for Environmental Studies, has provided the introduction and the article "Bringing Political Science to Bear on Tropical Conservation" for an upcoming special issue of the journal International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics. Steinberg invited scholars, particularly social scientists working on global environmental issues, to share insights from their own efforts to span the world of ideas and the world of action. Steinberg's contribution to this collection of reports is based on his experiences as a research consultant to the World Bank and as policy director of an international conservation organization.

Research Published

Undergraduate co-authors Evan Cohick '04, Katherine Parker '00 and Michelle Hortter '04 were cited along with Associate Professor of Biology Mary Williams, for research published this past May in the prestigious journal Plant Physiology. Williams discussed this work, "In vivo studies of the Arabidopsis sac9 mutant," at the International Conference on Plant Lipid-mediated Signaling in Raleigh, N.C. In early 2005, she spoke about "Incorporating a Genomics Perspective into Molecular Biology Lab" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists. Williams currently serves as chair of the Education Committee of the American Society of Plant Biologists.

Scientific Computing Advances

Darryl Yong '96, organizer of this year's HMC Mathematics Conference, reports the largest turn out ever (80 participants) to hear discussions about extremely difficult problems being solved using novel numerical analysis techniques. For instance Randall LeVeque of University of Washington, Seattle, demonstrated how high-resolution finite-volume numerical methods could be used to model volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. Z. Jane Wang of Cornell University showed how the immersed interface method could be used to calculate the air flow and forces resulting from flapping dragonfly wings. Also delivering talks were Adrian Lew of Stanford University and Linda Petzold of UC Santa Barbara.

Staff News

Hired recently

The newest members in the offices of Admission and Financial Aid are Les Butler, associate director of financial aid, and Elliott Temkin '05, admission counselor.

The Office of College Advancement has hired Susan Skapik for the new position of senior secretary to the principal and major gifts officers. Also joining the staff recently was DruAnn Thomas, secretary.

Chris Donovan is now lead custodian in the academic area, announced the Office of Facilities and Maintenance. Robin Ashby also joined the F & M staff recently. Walt Farmer, custodial services manager, retired.

Esther Hughes has moved to the Dean of the Faculty office to serve as administrative assistant. She previously worked as administrative aide for Engineering Clinic for seven years.

Angelica Ibarra is now administrative aide in the Office of the Dean of Students. She replaces Rita Whittenbury who retired in January after 17 years at Mudd.

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences has hired Dawn Spencer as administrative aide.

Dining Services has hired Maria Corona, Kate Katigbak, Leanne Lowery, Gerardo Mayorga and Mike Telleria.

Allison Rivera is the new lab technician in the Department of Chemistry.

The HMC-based Upward Bound program, which seeks to increase the rates at which participants enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education, has hired Leslie Karp, academic coordinator, and Marcela Salcido, administrative aide.

Student News

Interdisciplinary Cooperation, Novel Technology Distinguish OCM Research Project

Senior physics majors Stephanie Feldman and Dan Strenge are making movies about frogs.

But not just any kind of movies. The detailed motion pictures being created in the HMC physics lab show how frog embryos grow and change in the earliest stages of development. Using an optical coherence microscope (OCM), Feldman and Strenge have created three-dimensional pictures of cell activity below an organism's surface without cutting or otherwise damaging the organism. Their work, and that of their classmates and faculty advisers, is adding to our understanding of how cells interact as they differentiate into distinct parts of the body.

Feldman and Strenge showed their movies and discussed their OCM/frog studies over fall break at the annual meeting of the Optical Society of America in Tucson. They wowed the audience with their application of optics to developmental biology.

"Our topic ('Imaging Early Frog Embryo Development with Optical Coherence Microscopy') was the only one incorporating more than just physics," said Strenge, referring to the other undergraduate research presentations made at the meeting.

The OCM project at Mudd is noted for being highly interdisciplinary and has involved students and faculty from all six major programs. Feldman and Strenge are among the 100 student researchers who have worked thus far on the project, which has required designing and constructing the optical coherence microscope to study fundamental problems in developmental biology. In addition to the study of the frog (Xenopus laevis), the OCM is being used to study another model system, the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which has potential importance to the agricultural industry.

Feldman's and Strenge's frog embryo research is a continuation of work that began in 1996, when the OCM was acquired with a National Science Foundation award. Andrew Schile '01 in collaboration with Caltech professor and HMC Trustee Scott Fraser '76 produced the first time-lapse frog embryo movies by acquiring many successive 3-D images of gastrulation, at time intervals of 10 minutes, and splicing them together. Last year, with Burton Bettingen Professor of Physics Richard Haskell, Sean Skelly '04 constructed an OCM operating at 1300 nanometers to improve depth penetration and resolution over the original OCM instrument that was operating at 850 nm. A faster CPU in the new instrument allowed researchers to enhance motion-sensitive images.

These developments have proven most exciting for Feldman and Strenge, who are among the first students to use the 1300 nm OCM. They now enjoy better image quality that allows them to view about 30 percent more of the frog embryo than before.

"There are a lot more things you can see earlier in development, and that's exciting," said Feldman. "We can start being more specific about what we're looking for and focus on certain events."

In particular, they have been looking at internal cellular structures, at vegetal rotation and neural fold closing, all critical events in the early development of animals. The OCM is capable of non-invasively, non-destructively imaging cells or groups of cells located up to one millimeter below the surface of living tissue, regions rendered opaque using conventional microscopy techniques. Modern visualization software turns these OCM images into three dimensional, time-lapse movies of tissue development, an exciting outcome for developmental biologists-and for undergraduates at HMC.

Strenge and Feldman are continuing to study frog development, "mainly exploring what we can see." They are considering changing the orientation of the microscope so they can view areas that are not currently visible from their top-down approach.

"I like the idea of the application of physics to an actual issue in biology," said Strenge. "The way we can combine the two fields is cool."
Haskell says that faculty-from three institutions and three traditional academic disciplines-have also benefited from the exposure to different perspectives and tools common in other disciplines. "We are now much more likely to pursue significant research problems that stretch across disciplinary lines?problems that are becoming increasingly a larger percentage of the outstanding problems in science and technology."

The OCM research project has generated new HMC courses and course material in physics, engineering and computer science. Also, the design of the OCM and the application to plants and agriculture are sufficiently unique that the college has applied for a patent.

"Perhaps most importantly," said Haskell, "the OCM research activities have themselves served as the most effective pedagogical tool in undergraduate education: original research on significant and challenging problems in laboratories equipped with instruments and technology reflective of the current state-of-the-art, and with faculty mentors who are actively and passionately engaged in that work." -SG

Chalking the Walk

Promising plenty of chalk and fruity drinks, the Mudd Creative Collective invited community members to express their creativity on the Booth Plaza. "Let's prove to ourselves that we haven't lost our creative sides, and that artistic expression does have a place here at Mudd," they encouraged in their e-mail invitation.

Junior Wins Sigma Xi Prize

James McDonough '07 received first place and $175 at the Sigma Xi Student Research Conference this November. The prize was given for his interdisciplinary project (chem- istry and engineering), titled "Nanoporous Alumina and Examination of a New Block Copolymer." The project was the result of research McDonough conducted during a summer at the Cornell University Center for Materials Research. The Sigma Xi annual meeting showcases the best in student science and engineering research.

McDonough also presented work at an American Chemical Society meeting in March and published a manuscript with Professor of Chemistry Kerry Karukstis in the American Chemical Society journal Langmuir.

SWE Wins Again

The HMC section of the Society of Women Engineers won the "2005 Corning Student Career Guidance Incentive Grant" given by the national SWE. The $500 prize recognized their successful spring 2005 WEST conference, which "effectively exposed pre-college students to available opportunities in engineering or science-related careers." The chapter also won the prize last year.

She Wants to Be A Mathematician

For the second straight year, Julijana Gjorgjieva '07 had the prizewinning mathematics poster at this year's Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans Conference. Her poster "Modeling Interaction of Predator and Prey Populations on Dynamic Habitats" involves the development and analysis of an adaptive numerical method for solving a system of partial differential equations on a growing domain. Her work was based on her summer research with Jon Jacobsen, Iris and Howard Critchell Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Also during the conference, Gjorgjieva solved her way to the top of the organization's first "Who Wants to Be A Mathematician" contest. She won a tie-breaker and advanced to the bonus round, ultimately receiving the top prize of a TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator for her efforts.

Undergrads Impress Tissue Engineering Group

Lindsay Wray '09 and Jamie Shoffeitt '08 presented talks in December at the Los Angeles Tissue Engineering Initiative Meeting at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. They were two of only three undergraduates presenting during the meeting, and Wray came away with the "best talk" award, as voted by the attendees.

Cheering Section, HMC Athletes in CMS Sports, FALL 2005

Men's Cross Country-tied for 2nd in SCIAC, 4th in West Region:
Asaf Bernstein '08
Victor Camacho '07
Nate Chenette '07
Robert Egan '08
Gregory Farnum '09
Jeff Jones '08
Andrew LaMotte-Mitchell '09
James Moore '07
Ryan Pakula '09
Clarence Rowland '07, 2nd Team All-SCIAC; All-West Region
Michael Van Antwerp '09, 1st Team All-SCIAC; All-West Region
Kyle Zarzana '07

Women's Cross Country-SCIAC Champions, 2nd in West Region:
18th at NCAA Championships
Rachael Martin '09
Kacy McKibben '09
Kathryn Mouzakis '07, 2nd Team All-SCIAC
Oksana Sergeeva '09

Football-3-6 overall and 1-5 in SCIAC (6th):
Dustin Brekke '07, defensive back
Kevin Byram '08, offensive line
Tyler Jank '06, wide receiver/punter
Jonathan Lake '09, linebacker
Jeff Manassero '07, defensive line

Men's Soccer-6-10-3 overall and 5-6-3 in SCIAC (5th):
Kevin Festini '09, defender

Women's Soccer-9-8-2 overall and 7-4-1 in SCIAC (3rd):
Allison Hutchings '07, midfielder
Nicole Esclamado '07, forward, 2nd Team All-SCIAC

Men's Water Polo-10-16 overall and 4-6 in SCIAC (t5th):
Phil Amberg '08, utility