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Frances Dunwell, the Hudson River estuary coordinator at the N.Y.S. Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), will present a lecture titled “The State of the Hudson River,” at Hamilton College on Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Dunwell is a 1974 graduate of Kirkland College, Hamilton’s sister institution for women until the two colleges merged in 1978.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner, Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Goldwater Scholar Mary Beth Day's recently published article, "Global Search for Minimum Energy (H2O)n Clusters, n = 3-5," has been recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) as one of the most accessed research articles for the third quarter of 2005 in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. The ACS has recently listed the articles that are most accessed through the Internet, as this is one measure of an article's impact on the discipline.

Hamilton Professors Alan Cafruny, Yvonne Zylan, Peter Cannavo, Theodore Eismeier, Barbara Gold and Mack Mariani addressed the Hamilton community in a November 30 panel discussion titled, “Bush: A Failed Presidency?” Each faculty member on the panel offered remarks regarding Bush’s record in office and an evaluation of his presidency.

The Hamilton College Democrats will present Bush: A Failed Presidency?, a faculty panel discussion to evaluate the presidency of George W. Bush, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. This event is free and open to the public.

William A. Klemperer, the Erving Research Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, will visit Hamilton College as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in Chemistry on Dec. 1-2. In addition to visiting informally with faculty and students, discussing research careers with chemistry and physics students and participating in regular classes in the chemistry and physics departments, Klemperer will present two seminars, a general seminar titled “The Chemistry of the Universe” on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 4 p.m. and a chemical physics seminar titled “Making and Breaking Weak Bonds” on Friday, Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. These events are jointly sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the Department of Chemistry and are free and open to the public.

Alumni Leadership CandidatesThe Alumni Council has nominated the following candidates for leadership positions -- one as president of the Alumni Association and three as members of Hamilton's board of trustees. Terms begin July 1, 2006, with the Alumni Association president serving a three-year term and alumni trustees each serving four years.In accordance with Article 8 of the Constitution of the Alumni Association, alumni may submit additional nominations for these offices by petition, each of which requires at least 25 signatures of association members. To be valid, a petition must be submitted by Jan. 7, 2006, and include the signature, class year, address and telephone number of each petitioner, along with a statement by the proposed candidate consenting to be nominated. Each page of a petition must contain the name of the candidate and the office for which he or she is being nominated.Each petition may nominate only one candidate and should be directed to the Secretary, Hamilton College Alumni Association, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323. If no nominations by petition are received, a mail ballot election will not be necessary.Alumni Association PresidentMARK RICE '73, an English major at Hamilton, was quarterback of the football team, on the Spectator staff, selected for DT honorary society and was a member of Alpha Delta Phi. After 11 years with Banker's Trust, he joined Citigroup Private Bank in New York, where he is a director. Rice has served Hamilton as a free agent and a reunion gift committee member, a Career Center volunteer, president of the Fairfield County Alumni Association, member of the Alumni Council executive committee and chair of the council's regional affairs committee. He has been active with the FAN (Football Alumni Network), and he and his wife Amy are members of the Parents Advisory Council. The Rices live in Wilton, Conn., and are the parents of Whitney '01 and Andrew '06.Alumni Trustees(three to be elected)HAROLD W. BOGLE '75, a government and English literature major, was a resident advisor and member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He earned his M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bogle lives in Bronxville, N.Y., and has served as a free agent, Career Center volunteer and head of the major gifts effort for the 30th reunion committee. He has hosted several Rising Star sessions and is currently class agent and a member of the Alumni Council and the leadership gifts council for the Excelsior Campaign. He is a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York.ANN B. HUTCHINS '79 attended Kirkland College for three years before the merger, participating on the squash and field hockey teams and graduating from Hamilton with a degree in American studies. In 1988, she earned an M.B.A. from Babson College. After serving as a partner at HLM Management, Hutchins founded and is now a principal at Alexius Consulting, a firm that provides strategic and logistical direction to small businesses. She is a member of the leadership gifts council for the Excelsior Campaign and has been the class correspondent and a member of the reunion gift committee. A resident of Santa Barbara, Calif., she has met with students on and off campus to discuss careers in finance. ALEXANDER C. SACERDOTE '94, a government major and member of Alpha Delta Phi at Hamilton, spent three years with Internet-related firms following graduation. He lives in Boston, where he has been with Fidelity Investments since 1999, when he earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He has assisted students through Career Center programs and has served as a member of 1994's reunion gift committee. In addition to a scholarship endowment, Sacerdote's family established The Sacerdote Great Names Series at Hamilton, for which he is the family's liaison.

Can you name the five four-letter words that contain two Z’s? Hamilton College Junior Brendan Sullivan can. It’s just one of the many tidbits of word-related trivia he picked up during a summer full of the board game Scrabble, the focus of his summer research project. After receiving a stipend through a William Bristol Merit Scholarship, he used the money to enter and travel to a number of Scrabble tournaments around the country.

Assistant Profesor of English Steven Yao delivered a paper, "A Rim with a View: Orientalism, Geography and the Historiography of Modernism," at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Chicago, in November. In the paper Yao surveys approaches to Asian cultures and traditions in the criticism of Modernist literature and tries to offer a new strategy for addressing the complex interactions between East and West in the both the constitution and dissemination of Modernism as an artistic movement in different locations around the world.

Sylvia de Swaan, lecturer in art, recently presented lectures at SUNY Buffalo and Cornell University. De Swaan spoke at Buffalo on Nov. 7 as part of the Visual Arts Speaker Series and at Cornell on Nov. 11 as part of the "Camera-Culture: Camera Culture" Conference co-sponsored by the Society for Photographic Education – Northeast Region and the Cornell art department. The conference examined how the dynamic between the visual image and ideology, each present in the other, contribute to the way we experience culture.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was quoted in a MarketWatch article titled "Bush Handles China with Soft Gloves. "The article was repeated in Investors’ Business Daily. Commenting on the Bush administration’s two-day visit to Beijing, Li said, "I think both sides became more mature."Concerning China’s attempt to strengthen its currency against the U.S. dollar, Li said, "Whether immediately, in a few days or after a while, we don't know. But in my judgment it is inevitable." Li was also interviewed for a live BBC interview on Nov. 19 concerning China's leaders and Bush's trip to meet with them.