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Hamilton College has announced the names of two individuals and a couple who will be awarded honorary degrees at the college’s 194th commencement on Sunday, May 21. Hamilton’s commencement ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. The honorary degree recipients are Joseph S. Nye, Jr., the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and the Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations; author and Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen; and broadcast journalist Bill Moyers and his wife, Public Affairs Television President Judith Moyers. Quindlen will deliver the Commencement address and Nye will offer the Baccalaureate sermon, which will be given on Saturday, May 20, at 3 p.m. in the Scott Field House.

Andrew Lyons '06 and Joshua Hicks '09 have just completed redesigning the Web site for Oneida County Communities That Care, a local non-profit organization. Lyons and Hicks did their work as the service-learning component of a class taught by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita.

An article by Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government, was published in the June issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. The article titled “Mr. Bush’s War: Foreign Policy in the 2004 Election” examined the factors that accounted for George W. Bush’s victory in the 2004 election.

Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu published an article, "On Language Use in Teaching Classical Chinese in the CFL Context," in the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, Volume 41:1, February, 2006.

William R. Kenan Professor of Government Cheng Li was quoted in a May 15 Wall Street Journal article focusing on the family connections of some of China’s business leaders. He also commented in two live interviews for the BBC on the 40th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution.

James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government Philip Klinkner predicted that President Bush would “start using his veto pen and cutting spending bills,” in a May 14 article in The New York Times “Week in Review” section titled “Hey Democrats, Why Win?”

Scott MacDonald presented a paper at "Microlandscapes: Landscape Culture on the Move, an Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Dynamics of Landscape Concepts," held May 11 to 13 at Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Muenster, Germany.

Ronald R. Pressman, a 1980 graduate of Hamilton College, has been named president and ceo of GE Asset Management, which manages $200 billion in assets. He succeeds John H. Myers, who is retiring after nearly 37 years with General Electric.

Professor of English Vincent Odamtten participated in a panel discussion at a symposium, "African/Diaspora Literature in the 21st Century" at Cornell University on May 8. The symposium was in honor of the retirement of Professor Anne Adams and sponsored by the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell. Odamtten's talk was titled "Beyond the Comfort Zone: Relations Between African Writers and Audience."

Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics Derek C. Jones delivered the keynote address titled "The performance of worker cooperatives: An assessment and some new evidence for Italy"at a research seminar hosted by the Ruralia Institute at the University of Helsinki on May 11. The seminar, "Cooperative Idea and Cooperative Entrepreneurship in Finland" focused on cooperation and social economy and their impact on the workplace.