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Life Trustee Dick Couper '44, will be guest speaker at Think Tank on Friday, Nov. 4, at noon in KJ 221. Couper's topic is "New York Public Library Nonpareil." A Hamilton trustee for 46 years, he was the first president and CEO of the New York Public Library and remains as president emeritus. Think Tank is a student-directed organization that works to stimulate dialogue between students, faculty and staff outside of the classroom.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, has been appointed to the Academic Advisory Group of the U.S.-China Working Group (USCWG). USCWG, a bi-partisan initiative, was established in 2005 to build relations with China and to increase Congressional awareness of the importance of U.S-China issues that affect the decision-making in the U.S. Congress. More than 30 members of Congress have joined USCWG.

Professor Colette Inez of Columbia University will read from her poetry on Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. in Fillius Events Barn  Author of nine books of poetry and a memoir, Inez has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. Her work has been praised by critics and by some of the most important of America's poets.

Associate Professor of Art History Steve Goldberg delivered a lecture titled "Globalization, Sovereignty, and Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture," on Oct. 27 to inaugurate the "Year of China" at The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn.

Vietnam veteran Mike Boehm will lead a screening of the film, "The Sound of the Violin at My Lai: Hope Rises from the Ashes," followed by a discussion on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. The film and discussion are free and open to the public.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields recently visited the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. His host was Dr. Gavril Pasternak, P '08, the Anne Burnett Tandy Chair of Neurology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Weill College of Medicine at Cornell University. Professors Shields and Pasternak discussed the research that Hamilton students are pursuing in the area of cancer biochemistry with Professors Karl Kirschner and Shields. The research included the work of Katrina Lexa '05, Frank Pickard '05, Karilyn Larkin '06, Valery Danilack '06, Matroner George '07, Amanda Salisburg '08 and Amy Barrows '08. They also discussed opportunities for Hamilton students to pursue research in chemical biology at Sloan-Kettering, Weill Medical College and Rockefeller University, as well as ways to improve the biochemistry program at Hamilton.

Filmmaker Robert Perkins will be showing and discussing his film "Into the Great Solitude" on Monday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the KJ auditorium. Perkins is from Cambridge, Mass., and has made a number of films documenting his solo explorations of the Canadian north and other wilderness areas. His films have been shown at numerous film festivals and on PBS. The event is free and open to the public.

Filmmakers William and Louise Greaves will present their latest documentary, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½, on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium at Hamilton College as part of the film and lecture series, F.I.L.M (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion).  The series continues through December. The event is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund received donations of approximately $150,000 during the past year. Total gifts to the endowed fund, which has a goal of $1 million and is identified as one of the priorities in the college's current capital campaign, now approach $700,000.

Colgate University's Clifford Art Gallery is exhibiting Lecturer in Art Sylvia de Swaan's 9/11-themed photos, titled "Sub-version," through December 9. de Swaan will give an artist's talk on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m., in Golden Auditorium at Colgate's Little Hall. "Sub-version" is a series of photos taken by de Swaan in the days following the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001. They juxtapose the bland reality of life outside the artist's window with the scenes of horror found at that same time on television screens. The Clifford is free and open to the public from 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on weekdays, and from 1 - 5 p.m. on weekends.