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Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, comments on Premier Wen Jiabao's U.S. visit live on BBC Radio World Service. (Between 3:30 and 4 p.m., Monday, Dec. 8 on the BBC World Service. Click on "Audio: Newshour" to listen with Real Player.) Wen is on a four-day visit to the U.S. that will include a meeting with President George Bush at the White House on Tuesday.  Topics to be discussed include Taiwan, North Korea and trade issues.

How does what you do connect to the College's mission? To an outsider, the stratified layers of employees at Hamilton may make this connection difficult to distinguish, but to Tracy Knofla, who travels around the country doing training for corporations, higher education and non-profit organizations, the structure isn't what matters - what matters are the individuals.

Professor of English Naomi Guttman's poem "The Mend" was published in the most recent issue of the journal Southern Poetry Review.

Sharon Rivera, assistant professor of government, organized a panel titled "Political Leadership in the CIS" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, held November 20-23, in Toronto.  She also presented a paper at the panel on "Putin, the West, and the Roots of Russian-American Cooperation."

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Sino-U.S. educational exchange programs. Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, coordinated a conference, with Fudan University, that took place in Shanghai. Topics included the history and current status of U.S.-China educational exchange programs from both the U.S. and Chinese views, as well as a session devoted to mapping the future of Sino-U.S. exchange programs. In addition to scholarly presentations, Richard Levin, president of Yale University, gave the keynote address and senior officials of China’s Ministry of Education offered remarks.

Bruce Molsky, a Grammy-nominated guitarist, banjoist and singer, performed a short concert at Hamilton College to help kick off Family Weekend. A Bronx native, Molsky plays old-time southern Appalachian fiddle music. This music, according to Molsky, dates back 250 years in America, and draws from various cultures all over the world.

George Shields, chair and Winslow Professor of Chemistry, gave an invited lecture at the 35th American Chemical Society Central Regional Meeting in Pittsburgh. His talk was titled "Formation of MERCURY to Enhance Undergraduate Computational Chemistry: Accurate pKa Calculations in Aqueous Solution, Progress and Challenges." MERCURY provides access to high performance computing resources or supercomputers for chemistry students and researchers at seven liberal arts institutions in the Northeast.

Professor of Anthropology Charlotte Beck was interviewed by National Geographic for an article, "Did First Americans Arrive by Land and Sea?" Beck,with Professor of Anthropology Tom Jones, was at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Seattle.  Beck and Jones presented a paper at the conference titled "When did People Arrive in the West?," which investigates the changing environment of the ancient West to determine the probability of human settlement in different areas.

The news headline reads "New iPaq packs in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities." It may be Greek to some of us, but it's a taste of the future on college campuses. David Roback, network and systems administrator, says the new Science Center will be entirely wireless and explains what technology advances will make possible at Hamilton.

Many Hamilton employees got decked out for Halloween.