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Henry Sneath '80 was recently installed as president of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar, an international organization of 22,000 civl defense trial counsel, commercial litigation attorneys, and corporate counsel.  He will also serve as the principal spokesperson for DRI’s Center for Law and Public Policy.  Sneath has previously served as both second and first vice-president of DRI, as a member of the Board of Directors, and as chair of the Commercial Litigation and Public Policy Committees.

Scott A. Barrett ’90 has joined the Syracuse University School of Information Studies as assistant dean for advancement. 

David Prior '01 has won two awards for his essay "Civilization, Republic, Nation: Contested Keywords, Northern Republicans, and the Forgotten Reconstruction of Mormon Utah," published in the Civil War History, Sept. 2010.

Thanks to the generous support of young alumni, Hamilton is pleased to name Athina Chartelain ’13 of Brooklyn, N.Y. as its 37th GOLD Scholar.

Stone Professor of Psychology Douglas Weldon presented a poster titled “Visual Cortical Evoked Potentials During and After MK-801 Administration in Rats” at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on Nov. 16 in Washington, D.C.

Thomson West has published Litigating Business and Commercial Tort Cases by Matt Cartwright '83, P'15, Joseph C Peiffer, and Kirk Reasonover.  The practice guide explains the law for each cause of action for business torts and includes practice tips, analyses of potential claims and defenses, and forms necessary for handling a case.  All three authors are current or past chairs of the American Association for Justice's (AAJ) Business Tort Section.

The students on Hamilton’s New York City Program recently ventured up to Midtown East to visit the corporate offices of one of the United States’ most iconic luxury retailers. Steven Sadove ’73, chairman and CEO of Saks 5th Avenue, Inc., invited the 15 students to his corporate offices for a discussion on the current state of the retail industry.

In the spring, The Johns Hopkins University Press will publish Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States by Joseph November '97.  The book explores both how computers changed how life is studied and how the life sciences contributed to computing.

Graduates of residential liberal arts colleges give their college experience higher marks than do graduates of private or public universities, according to a new national study. Released on Nov. 15, the study was commissioned by the Annapolis Group, a consortium of leading liberal arts colleges of which Hamilton is a member.

Nell Dodge '99 recently opened 603 Here & There, a new e-shop of hand-picked design items for the holidays. The shop offers an edited range of "contemporary and fun" products from handcrafted soap to gold lustered ceramic objects.  All the products are collaborations with smaller artists and artisans and of European and American origin, with designers from New Hampshire (Area Code 603), NYC, San Francisco, Vermont and France.