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The drawing, painting, photography and printmaking of 14 locally based artists including Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan will be featured in an exhibition titled "Open Focus" at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. The opening reception will be held on Sunday, May 11, from 3 to 5 p.m. The exhibition runs through June 4. Other artists in the exhibition include several Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor professors.

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg published a paper titled "Art and the Authority of Excellence in Traditional China" in La question de l'art en Asie orientale, a publication of Le Centre de Recherche sur l'Extrême Orient de Paris-Sorbonne (CREOPS). Goldberg examined the relevance of the classical tradition of Confucian reflection for the aesthetic reception and historical understanding of the art of the scholar-painter in China.

The May 4 episode of Foreign Exchange, a weekly international affairs series presented to the PBS system by Oregon Public Broadcasting, features Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Douglas Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology, with alumni Carlyn Patterson '06, Erica Colligan '06, Christina Nemeth '06 and Avery Rizio '09 recently published an article in Behavioral Neuroscience. The paper reports an investigation of the superior colliculus, an area of the midbrain that might be involved in the detection of and reaction to significant events.

Hamilton Director of Web Content J.D. Ross will be one of five presenters in a session titled "Using the Web to Connect with Alumni" at the Computing Officers Association Western Region Spring Forum at Buffalo State College.

Hamilton College alumnus and Charter Trustee Stephen Sadove '73 and his wife Karin have committed $4 million to renovate the College's Emerson Literary Society building (ELS). The Sadoves' gift will enable the College to create and renew space for expanded collaboration among all student groups with the goal of making the facility a hub for student activities on campus.

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has been speaking about the significance of the 1968 Columbia University student strike, led by the 1960s radical group Students for a Democratic Society. On Saturday, April 26, he will be on a panel titled "The Legacy of the Student Movement" at Columbia University, part of a three-day 40th anniversary commemorative event titled "Columbia 1968 and the World."

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Anne E. Lacsamana has been awarded a $30,000 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship based on her book project Revolutionizing Feminism: The Philippine Women's Movement in the Age of Terror. According to the AAUW, the selected fellows are a group of "exceptional women whose work promises to enhance such diverse disciplines as biology, philosophy, and anthropology."

Associate Professor of Art History Stephen Goldberg was a speaker at Asian Art Study Day in Colgate University's Picker Art Gallery with Colgate professors Padma Kaimal and Robert Hung-Ngai Ho on Saturday, April 12.

Students in "Introduction to Comparative Politics" class will conduct a public debate, part of a fictitious political campaign staged in the imagined country of West Europa, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in the Kennedy Science Auditorium. This is the fourth year that Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Rivera has organized this debate and competition.