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Professor of Government Cheng Li spoke at the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute on China's new leadership capabilities and challenges.

Dan Brown is a great example of the many employees who have given their working lives in service to Hamilton. In addition, he caught our attention as the ultimate collector -- he saves everything from Saratoga bottles to valuable sports memorabilia -- and for his lifetime of visiting sports venues.

Associate Professor of Government Steve Orvis was quoted in an Reuters article concerning the reconstruction efforts of the United States in Iraq. "Child mortality is probably the single best yardstick of the physical well-being of a people," said Orvis. This article appear on the MSNBC web siteYahoo! News.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, is the senior editor of the Handbook of Economics in the Electronic Age published by Academic Press, May 2003.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Joshua Lesperance gave a talk, "Gorenstein Liaison of Codimension Three Curves," at the Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.

The Hamilton College Senior Art Show, a final presentation of the work of 18 graduating fine arts majors, will remain on exhibit in the Emerson Gallery through May 25. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and mixed media works. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton Professors Shelley Haley, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting and Todd Franklin and the members of Sophomore Seminar “Race Matters” 215 welcomed Robert Bernasconi, professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, Dwight McBride, associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, and Tiffany Patterson, associate professor of history at Binghamton University to the hill to debate the three major texts they have been studying this semester. Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God were debated, with each speaker supporting a text and engaging in a debate with the other speakers and answering questions from the audience. After the final ballot, The Wretched of the Earth was voted the most influential book on race of the twentieth century. This event was sponsored by the Office of the Vice President, the Dean of Faculty, and the Department of Africana Studies.

CAB Acoustic Coffeehouse will present Susan Werner and Peter Mulvey on Tuesday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn for the last concert of the season. Free with Hamilton i.d., $7. for public.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Julie Dunsmore presented a poster at the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Fla. (April, 2003). The poster was on her research of "Parents' discussions with children about a terrorist attack." At the conference, Dunsmore also conducted a symposium on "Preschool Children's Affective Social Competence and their Friendship Formation."

Hamilton College Gay Issues Poll was featured in this Chicago Tribune article about gay teens coming out in high school. The article states that according to the Hamilton College poll, 88 percent of high school seniors say their classmates use the phrase, 'that's so gay,' to indicate something they don't like.