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Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was interviewed by Voice of America radio about human resource development in China and the Chinese government's recent policy to attract talent from overseas. He was also quoted in the Reuters article, "China PM takes pride in 'man of the people' image," on March 4.

Douglas Ambrose, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of History, will facilitate “Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of Our Most Elusive Founder” Thursday, July 28, through Sunday, July 31. Ambrose, a member of the Hamilton faculty since 1990, is a recipient of the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award. His teaching and research interests include American history, biography, early America and the Old South. Ambrose is the author of Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South. In addition, he has written numerous articles, book reviews and encyclopedia entries about Southern slavery and Southern intellectual life. Professor Ambrose will examine Hamilton through his own writing and through recent biographies of him, in an attempt to uncover the man, his accomplishments, and his lasting influence on the country to which he devoted his life. Alexander Hamilton is one of those fascinating characters who makes us ponder what America was, is, and should be. He is also one of the most intriguing individuals in our history - a foreign-born orphan who rose to the highest levels of American political and social life. Although recent scholarship has established Hamilton's central role in America's founding era, the meaning of his contributions and legacy remain hotly debated. Was he a closet monarchist or a sincere republican? A victim of partisan politics or one of its most vigorous promoters? A lackey for the British or a foreign policy mastermind? An economic genius or a shill for special monied interests? Hamilton, in short, remains in history what he was for much of his life: a person who no one is neutral about. Most activities for the session will take place in the beautiful Rogers Estate at the edge of the Hamilton campus. The Rogers Estate offers sweeping views of Clinton and the Oriskany Valley. Space in the facility is limited, so we recommend making your reservations as soon as possible. Rooms are comfortable and lounge areas are spacious. Since the Rogers Estate typically functions as a student residence, bathrooms may be shared. Alternate off-campus accommodations are available. One evening will include dinner and a performance at the world-renowned Glimmerglass Opera House in Cooperstown. The cost is $575 per person or $1,100 per couple and includes books and other reading materials, residence hall accommodations, gourmet meals, opera tickets and transportation to Glimmerglass. The non-resident fee for local attendees is $470 per person. deposit of $150 per person is required no later than April 30, 2005. Full payment is due June 15. For more information about “Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of Our Most Elusive Founder,” please contact Bill Brower '84, Executive Director, Annual Giving and Alumni Programs, at 315-859-4027 or wbrower@hamilton.edu or Amy Palmieri, at 315-859-4667 or apalmier@hamilton.edu.  To register online click HERE.

The Hamilton College Orchestra will present the third annual Brainstorm! concert on Sunday, March 6 at 3 p.m. at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. Conducted by Heather Buchman, this narrated concert, titled Brainstorm! An Exploration of Music and Nature, will focus on how composers are influenced by the environment. The program for this concert will include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Mahler’s Blumine, and Aaron Copland’s Down a Country Lane. This concert is free and open to the public.

Professor of English Edward Wheatley visited a graduate seminar, "Women and Disability," and gave an invited lecture on his work on blindness at the Humanities Institute at Ohio State University on February 24. The lecture was taken from the research for his current book project, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability, which has won fellowships for 2004-05 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, participated in the panel discussion "Look Hu's in Charge Now: Leadership in China," at Harvard University, Feb. 25. Joseph Fewsmith, professor of international relations and political science at Boston University, was also a panelist. The discussion was sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields and Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Karl Kirschner published an article in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry titled "Pople's Gaussian-3 model chemistry applied to an investigation of (H2O)8 water clusters." This work was co-authored by Mary Beth Day '07. Day worked on this project during the summers of 2003 and 2004, and during her freshman year. The research in this eight-page article describes a water cube and other isomers of eight waters, and demonstrates that the G3 model chemistry method developed by Nobel Laureate John Pople yields accurate structures and energies for this hydrogen-bonded system. Water clusters are of great interest to atmospheric chemists. The paper was published in a special memorial issue dedicated to John Pople.

Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane presented a paper titled "Indianizing Devonshire: Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen's Plagiarized Novel" at the 14th annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference in Savannah, Ga., in February.

John O'Keefe, The Dan Dietrich playwright-in-residence will present      "Shimmerings," a selection of readings from his plays Glamour, Times Like These, The Brönte Cycle, and Shimmer, on Friday, March 4, at 4 p.m. in the Red Pit, KJ 109.  A reception will follow in Cafe Opus.

Assistant Professor of English Steven Yao has been selected as a Stanford Humanities Center External Junior Faculty Fellow for 2005-06. The award involves a 10-month residency, from September to June, at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Yao was chosen as one of eight fellows from more than 250 applicants. During his fellowship, he will be completing a book, which is tentatively titled Foreign Accents: From the Language of Race to the Poetics of Ethnicity in Chinese American Verse, 1910-Present.

An article written by Robert Paquette, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, and Lemoyne College History Professor Douglas Egerton, has been selected as the winner of South Carolina Historical Magazine's Malcolm C. Clark Award. The award honors the best article published in the journal during the previous year. Paquette and Egerton wrote "Of Facts and Fables: New Light on the Denmark Vesey Affair."  The award was annoucned at the South Carolina Historical Society's annual meeting on Feb. 26 in Charleston.