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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.

Students from Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera's Politics in Russia class hosted adult learners from the Refugee Center for lunch in Dwight Lounge on Nov. 29. The Hamilton students are participants in Project SHINE (Students Helping In the Naturalization of Elders) and the adult learners were natives of the Ukraine, Moldolva and Belarus. Hamilton students participating in the lunch were Alex Hodosy '09, Abdel Abdelghany '10, Cali Garson '09, Akila Bond '09, Jessy Gelber '09, Kate Marek '09 and Stephanie Ryder '09. The SHINE program is operated through the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center.

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.

Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper titled "Mythical Ancestry and the Authority of History in Medieval Scottish Verse and Chronicle" at the University of Edinburgh on Nov. 28. Terrell is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, where she is writing a book on medieval Scottish poetry and historiography.

Professor of History Thomas Wilson presented a paper titled "Confucian Ritual Theory" on the panel "Rituals in Indian and Chinese Cultures: A Comparative Perspective" at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference in San Diego on Nov. 17. He also served as a discussant on the panel titled "Performing Harmony: Interpreting Daoist Ritual" at the conference. Wilson chairs the History Department at Hamilton.

Jack Li '08 presented his summer research on the use of transposon genetics as a marker for evolutionary biology at this year's Sigma Xi research conference in Orlando. Li's transposon project is under the direction of Assistant Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang, who is leading this collaborating project with colleagues from Princeton University.

The Hamilton College Choir will lead a Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 4 p.m. in the College Chapel. The tradition of the Service of Lessons and Carols dates back to Christmas Eve of 1918 and Cambridge University in England. Originally planned by the new dean of King's College, fresh from his role as army chaplain in World War I, the service has now become a tradition for many colleges across the world. The Hamilton Choir is directed by Professor of Music G. Roberts Kolb. The Rev. Jeffrey H. McArn, College chaplain, will officiate over the service, with the assistance of readers and candle bearers from Hamilton.

What does a high school athlete, accustomed to six-day-a-week practices and games, do when he or she arrives at college and does not play an intercollegiate sport? For many Hamilton students the answer is intramural or club sports. On the Hill and at many other colleges, intramurals fill the need to continue playing a sport from high school or a desire to try something new. At Hamilton an estimated 500-600 students this year are playing or will play on an intramural or club team – from soccer and ice hockey to badminton and Frisbee.

Patrick Mottola '88 is among a group of attorneys who recently received the Golden Hammer Award for their pro bono work for the Raritan Valley Chapter of Habitat for Humanity (RVHFH) serving Somerset and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. The Real Estate & Land Use Group of the Somerville, N.J., law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A., worked to obtain variances and site plan approval for RVHFH's Somerset County Franklin Township project. The project, which includes four homes for low-income families, is the first in a series of projects for which the Real Estate & Land Use Group is offering its services gratis.