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Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor David Shulenburger and Ma Jianfei, deputy director-general of the National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China, shake hands after signing a memorandum of cooperation to explore forming a Confucius Institute at KU. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius applauds the signing, which was part of her trade mission to China last month. Edward Hammond, president of Fort Hays State University, looks on. A Chinese delegation visited KU's Lawrence campus Nov. 14 and toured the Edwards Campus Nov. 15 to further explore establishing the institute. See related story.

Maj. Christopher Phelps, left, and his father, Master Gunnery Sgt. Kendall Phelps, U.S. Marine Corps, pose for a photo near the Marine Flag. Christopher Phelps, a KU alumnus, and his father served together in the same unit in Iraq. They were the featured speakers at a Veterans Day ceremony hosted by KU ROTC units on Nov. 11. ROTC units also held a flag retreat and 24-hour candlelight vigil at the Vietnam and Korean war memorials on campus.

Mohammadmian Soomro, chairman of the Pakistan senate, spoke on "Emerging Opportunities in Pakistan" at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics recently. Soomro's presentation touched on the massive earthquake that killed tens of thousands of Pakistanis, as well as economic opportunities in the country.

President of the Motion Picture Association of America and former Kansas congressman Dan Glickman, left, and KU alumnus and producer of television show "The West Wing" Alex Graves spoke recently as part of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics' "Hollywood and Politics" lecture series.