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Joey Campanella '08, Benjamin Critton ’06, Sarah Felder '07 and Liz Herring ’08 have work included in the "Speak Out" art exhibition at the Utica Library, which is located at 303 Genessee Street. This regional juried college student art exhibition includes work from students from Hamilton College, Colgate University, Syracuse University and Pratt at Munson William Proctor. The exhibition will close on March 31, 2006.

Hamilton College has made permanent its five-year experiment that allows students to choose which standardized tests to submit as part of their application for admission.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Brookings Institution senior fellow, was quoted on the front page of The New York Times in an article titled "China Attacks Its Woes With an Old Party Ritual," on Wednesday, March 9. Li discussed the efforts to rebuild grass-roots party organizations that have been falling apart in an article written by the Times Beijing bureau chief. The same article was also printed in the International Herald Tribune.

Douglas Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology, attended the Project Kaleidoscope Conference at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 3-5. Project Kaleidoscope or PKAL is an organization that advocates for building and sustaining strong undergraduate programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). PKAL focuses on building learning environments that attract and sustain undergraduate students in the study of STEM fields and motivate them to consider careers in related fields.

"SHOW TITLE HERE," the Hamilton College art faculty exhibition, will open Thursday, January 26, in the Emerson Gallery with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. There will also be three artist talks during February, each from noon to 1 p.m. in the gallery, beginning with Ella Gant and Rebecca Murtaugh on Wednesday, Feb. 1, followed by Sylvia de Swaan and Barry Gerson on Wednesday, Feb. 8, and Bruce Muirhead and Joy Powell on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The show includes work by these artists as well as by Bill Salzillo, chair of the art department and curator of the Hamilton Collects Program. The show is open through April 15. The lectures and exhibition are free and open to the public.

More than 50 prints, drawings and illustrated books by the British artist and humorist Thomas Rowlandson (1756 – 1827) will be on display in Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery in an exhibition opening on Friday, Feb. 10. These works are on loan to the Emerson from the extensive collection of Rowlandson's work in the Print Department of the Boston Public Library. The show, titled "Humor & Humanity: Through the Eyes of Thomas Rowlandson," will be open through April 15 and is free and open to the public.

Edward S. Walker, Jr., former United States Ambassador and current president of the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank on Middle East Policy, has been appointed to the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professorship in Global Political Theory. Ambassador Walker, a 1962 Hamilton graduate, served as the Linowitz Professor of Middle East Studies in 2003 and 2005.

Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek Jones recently gave two talks at the Helsinki Center for Economic Research in Helsinki, Finland. On Feb. 2, he presented a paper he wrote with Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen, "Human Resource Management and Performance in Retail Trade: Evidence From an Econometric Case Study," at the annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Economic Research. On Feb. 22, Jones presented a paper titled "The Productive Efficiency of Italian Producer Cooperatives: Evidence from Conventional and Cooperative Firms" at a seminar titled "Labour and Public Economics."

On Friday, February 24, Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald will present a lecture titled "Not Just a Nature Film" at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit of the Kirner-Johnson Building. As part of the Faculty Lecture Series, MacDonald will talk about the recent success of nature films like Luc Jacquet's "March of the Penguins," Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin's "Winged Migration," Andy Byatt and Alastair Fothergill's "Deep Blue," and Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man." He will discuss why critics need to consider them more seriously. He will present brief excerpts from films by French nature-film pioneer, Jean Painlevé, the Walt Disney Studio, and National Geographic. This event is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, participated in a live interview on the BBC's "The World Today" program on February 14. Li discussed the Chinese government's control over media and the growing demand for freedom of the press in the country.