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Cheng Li, professor of government, comments on the upcoming leadership changes in China. Li is the author of China's Leaders: The New Generation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).

Karen Leach, former chief information officer at Colgate University, has been named vice president for administration and finance at Hamilton College. Leach assumes the position held previously by Daniel J. O'Leary, who will become Hamilton's vice president for investments, a new position.

The smash Broadway musical, "The Producers," by Thomas Meehan '51 and Mel Brooks won a record 12 Tony Awards on Sunday, including best musical. This past weekend was Meehan's 50th class reunion at Hamilton. He graduated in 1951 with a bachelor of arts in English.

Hamilton's Reunion Weekend Alumni College will feature talks by nationally-known pollster John Zogby and Hamilton Jazz Archive director Monk Rowe, today at 3 p.m. Zogby will talk about polling in the wake of the 2000 presidential campaign at 3 p.m. in the KJ Aud. Rowe will share a sampling of jazz video interviews--humorous, poignant and informative clips from musicians, writers and critics he has interviewed since the archive was established in 1995. 3 p.m. in the Red Pit at KJ.

Percy R. Luney, a 1970 graduate of Hamilton College, has been named dean of the new college of law at Florida A&M University in Orlando. He was most recently president of the National Judicial College in Reno, Nev. Luney earned a juris doctorate from Harvard University. Classes in the new law school are expected to begin in the fall of 2003.

Two members of the Hamilton College Crew team, Mimi Barrett '02 (Washington, D.C.) and Johanna Carroll '03 (Holliston, MA), have been named National Rowing Scholar-Athletes of the Year by The Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association. Barrett, an American Studies major, and Carroll, a biology major, led the women's varsity 8+ crew to a 16th place finish at the 2001 Champions Regatta in Gainsville, Georgia. The duo also helped the Continentals to win the Gillman Plate versus Union College for the first time in four years.

Hamilton College has been selected as one of the three ACUTA Member Sites to See for the second quarter of 2001. The topic of this quarter's competition was On-Line Customer Surveys. "The Web site [http://www.hamilton.edu/college/its/telephones/phone_survey/phone_ survey.html] was selected based on criteria of content delivery, timeliness, ease of use, and accessibility," according to Jan Weller, chair of the Web Site Selection task force. Addressing voice, data and video communications needs for higher education, ACUTA serves more than 800 institutions of higher education and 2,000 telecommunications professionals from across the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Rob Parker, a rising sophomore at Hamilton College, passed up the opportunity to spend his summer lounging at the beach in order to participate in Hamilton's summer science research program. Parker has committed ten weeks to an internship in the chemistry department studying the encapsulation of enzymes in a sol-gel matrix.

Reunion Weekend at Hamilton is May 31 - June 3. Highlights include the dedication of The Samuel Eells House, a talk by pollster John Zogby, the dedication of the ropes course, an exhibit and gallery talk by alumni collectors of the Class of 1966, the traditional lobsterbake, reunion parade with the bagpipes of the Mohawk Valley Frasers, Saturday cookout, reunion choirs and more! A complete schedule of activities is posted on the alumni Web page, www.hamilton.edu/alumni.

The Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College presents a selection of works on loan from Class of 1966 alumni collectors. This exhibition was made possible by the contributions of six lenders: R. Steven Anderson, Michael S. Fawcett, D. Roger Howlett, Bruce Lundberg, Thomas J. Schwarz, and Woody Studenmund. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, and decorative arts, and will be open through June 29.