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Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was recently interviewed on current U.S.-China relations by the Beijing Review, China's only English weekly news magazine. The interview was conducted prior to President Bush's trip to China and meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Interviewed with Li were Stephen Roach, Chief Economist and Director of global economic analysis at Morgan Stanley, and James Dorn, China specialist and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Cato Institute.

Lawrence D. Dodds, an associate with the Blue Bell law firm Wisler Pearlstine Talone Craig Garrity & Potash LLP, has been named a “Pennsylvania Rising Star,” appearing in the December 2005 issue of Philadelphia Magazine and in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine. Only 2.5 percent of all practicing attorneys in Pennsylvania were selected as Rising Stars, after an extensive survey and peer review conducted by Law & Politics Media in a process intended to distinguish outstanding emerging attorneys in the state. A member of the firm’s Education Law Group, Mr. Dodds concentrates his practice in the areas of special education law and family law. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a focus on the treatment of adolescents and forensic issues, and prior to entering legal practice he provided therapy and assessment services in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and received his doctoral degree from Hahnemann University. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the Villanova University School of Law. Mr. Dodds is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, and Montgomery Bar Associations. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for both Methodist Family Services of Philadelphia and Methodist Services for Children and Families. Lawrence is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University.

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.”

Ron Chernow, the award-winning biographer of Alexander Hamilton, will be awarded an honorary degree by Hamilton College during its 8th annual Leadership Weekend, on Friday, Dec. 2, at the Hudson Theater in New York. He will be presented for an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Hamilton College Life Trustee Carl Menges ’51.

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.

The Biology 237 Class, Ecology, along with Professors Ernest Williams and Bill Pfitsch, scaled Whiteface Mountain as part of its annual field work trip. The class also conducted field work at Oriskany Creek. Biology 237 studies the relationships among living organisms and their physical environment, population growth and regulation, interspecific interactions, community and ecosystem structure and function, and biogeography.

Frances Dunwell K’74, Hudson River Estuary Coordinator at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, spoke to the Hamilton community on November 29. Dunwell’s presentation included a slideshow and a history of the Hudson River as well as the plans for implementation of Governor Pataki’s Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda to conserve the resources of the Hudson River watershed.

It's not too many people who have the opportunity to meet with and address the Dalai Lama -- particularly recent college grads. But that's exactly what Mike Evans '05 did in November when the Dalai Lama visited the Playing for Peace program in Belfast, Ireland, where Mike is program director. Mike is quick to credit his Hamilton education for giving him the skills and confidence to pull off his talk with one of the spiritual leaders of the world.

Renowned filmmaker Robb Moss will screen his most recent documentary The Same River Twice on Wednesday, Nov. 30, and Friday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute as part of the Hamilton F.I.L.M. Series. The film will also be shown on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m., but Moss will not be present at that screening. Moss will also screen his films Riverdogs (1982) and The Tourist (1991) on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium at Hamilton. All events are free and open to the public.

Robert Almeder, The Alan McCullough, Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy, will give a lecture, Eternal Questions: Lecture on Truth and Skepticism on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit. The lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Alan McCullough, Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professorship and the Department of Philosophy.