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Diane Fox, Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies, will participate in a conference titled “New Approaches to Vietnam and the West” at West Connecticut State University from Dec. 2-4. Fox will participate in the “Vietnam and the West Today” panel and speak on “Agent Orange, Vietnam and the U.S.: Stories of Trauma and Survival.”

Elihu Root, Jr. (class of 1903), son of Nobel Peace Prize winner Elihu Root (class of 1864), often painted on the porch of his summer home at the top of College Hill Road in Clinton. An attorney by profession, Root, Jr., was publicly recognized as an accomplished artist who also served on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The same home in which he taught his grandchildren to paint and to appreciate art is now being transformed into a center for the study of art history and made an integral part of Hamilton's campus.

William A. Klemperer, the Erving Research Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, will visit Hamilton College as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in Chemistry on Dec. 1-2. In addition to visiting informally with faculty and students, discussing research careers with chemistry and physics students and participating in regular classes in the chemistry and physics departments, Klemperer will present two seminars, a general seminar titled “The Chemistry of the Universe” on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 4 p.m. and a chemical physics seminar titled “Making and Breaking Weak Bonds” on Friday, Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. These events are jointly sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the Department of Chemistry and are free and open to the public.

Sylvia de Swaan, lecturer in art, recently presented lectures at SUNY Buffalo and Cornell University. De Swaan spoke at Buffalo on Nov. 7 as part of the Visual Arts Speaker Series and at Cornell on Nov. 11 as part of the "Camera-Culture: Camera Culture" Conference co-sponsored by the Society for Photographic Education – Northeast Region and the Cornell art department. The conference examined how the dynamic between the visual image and ideology, each present in the other, contribute to the way we experience culture.

Hamilton students in the New York City Program and program director Frank Anecharico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, traveled to West Point this month to attend a roundtable discussion on security policy with a group of cadets and faculty. The students in the NYC program conduct research and attend two seminars led by Anecharico, and at the same time are working full time in internship positions.

Diane Fox, Freeman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies, gave a presentation at the Housatonic Museum of Art at the Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Conn., on Nov. 19, on the subject of Agent Orange. Fox presented her talk, titled “One Significant Ghost: Stories from Vietnam,” in conjunction with a photography exhibit, “Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam.” The black and white photographs by Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths chronicle the horrifying consequences of using the chemical Agent Orange during the Vietnam war.

Eight Hamilton College students received Fulbright Scholarships for the 2005/2006 academic year, placing Hamilton fourth on the list of top Fulbright recipients according to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the administrating organization for the Fulbright Scholars Program. Hamilton is also the only New York college listed among the top 10 institutions in the U.S. Since 2000, Hamilton students have received 32 Fulbright Scholarships.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, has been invited to join the board of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. The committee works to facilitate communication and understanding between the United States and the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan. The committee is recognized by policymakers in the United States and China as a reliable source of expertise and a valuable channel for communication on a range of topics.  Key committee areas of focus are international affairs, governance, law, education, environment, economics and mass communication. Li's appointment became official during a two-day conference in New York City in November.

William W. Taylor III, the lead attorney for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, will speak at Hamilton College on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn as part of a lecture series sponsored by Hamilton's Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center titled "The Responsibilities of a Superpower." Taylor's lecture is titled "Legal Issues in the Native-American Land Claim Cases." This and all lectures in the series are free and open to the public.

The Emerson Gallery’s “A Century of Curiosities: Hamilton College Collects” was featured in the “Futures & Options” column titled “Beyond the Blockbuster” in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Nov. 4. The column referenced the size of the Emerson Gallery’s collection, 5,000 items, and noted the range of the collection’s holdings from Greek vases to a rattle from the Tlinglit Indians of the Pacific Northwest, from a portrait of Ezra Pound to Currier & Ives lithographs.