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A community holiday concert and bake sale to raise contributions to build a school in Cambodia will be held on Sunday, Dec. 16, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Kirkland Art Center. Organized primarily by Hamilton employees, the concert will include a sing-a-long and is free and open to the public.

Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled "The Russian Elite during Putin's Second Term: Has Militarization Continued?" at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies on Nov. 16 in New Orleans. Rivera and her co-author, government lecturer David W. Rivera, revisit the question they addressed in a 2006 article in Post-Soviet Affairs, whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has created a "neo-KGB state."

Jeff Pliskin, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Levitt Center, and Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, were invited attendees at the First International Economic Research Meeting of the Mondragon Cooperative Academic Community. The meeting was hosted by the Mondragon University business studies faculty in Oñati, Spain, Dec. 3-4.

A Hamilton trustee and his wife have donated $1 million to endow a need-based scholarship for students who are the first generation in their families to attend college. Recognizing the need for alumni to give back to the College, the donors, who wish to remain anonymous, have made their gift with the hope that it will encourage other alumni and supporters to make similar contributions in support of scholarship aid.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, discussed the recent elections in Russia and the European Union's criticism of the election process on Jamaica's major news/talk radio station on Thursday, Dec. 6. Interviewing Cafruny were former Jamaican Minister of Tourism Anthony Abrahams and Trevor Munroe, government professor at the University of West Indies.

Professor of Art Bruce Muirhead has two paintings in a show titled "Urban Landscapes" that opened on Friday, Dec. 7, at Susan Maasch Fine Art, a gallery in Portland, Maine. There will be a reception at the gallery on Friday, Jan. 4.

Students in Government 285: Introduction to Environmental Politics, led by Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavo, will hold a mock Senate hearing on climate change legislation on Wednesday, Dec. 5, from 4 – 7:30 p.m. in the Red Pit in the Kirner-Johnson Building. Cannavo says that attendees to this event should "expect informative expert testimony, spirited debate, self-serving political grandstanding and fascinating presentations covering everything climate-related, from distributive justice to alternative fuels to White House policy to oil reserves to international relations." This event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton Board of Trustees has unanimously elected Alan G. (A.G.) Lafley, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Procter & Gamble Company, to be its next chairman, and George F. (Jeff) Little II, co-president of George Little Management LLC, as its next vice chairman.

Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, spent three weeks in England in November as a Visiting Scholar at Oxford Brookes University where he presented several seminars. He also lectured on U.S.-European relations at the University of Bath and participated in a symposium and book launch of his most recent publication, Europe at Bay (co-authored by J. Magnus Ryner), at Oxford Brookes on Nov. 16.

Hamilton Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Xavier University Assistant Professor of Political Science Mack Mariani presented "Indoctrination U.? The Effect of Faculty Ideology on Changes in Student Political Orientation" at the North East Association for Institutional Research 34th annual conference in New Brunswick, N.J., in November.