Posted on Apr 17, 1998

The College welcomes prospective students and their families for last
“On-Campus Day” for accepted students on Monday, April 20

More than 100 students came to campus for each of the first two
“On-Campus Days.”

Posted on Apr 17, 1998

Armed with topics ranging from “Elemental Components of Mohawk
River Mud” to “Orchestration in the Symphonies of Carl Nielsen,” a busload
of 49 Union students will leave on Wednesday for the three-day National Conference on
Undergraduate Research at Salisbury (Maryland) State University.

Union is expected to have among the largest contingents, according to
Prof. Thomas Werner, chair of the NCUR Board of Governors. “We have been
multi-disciplinary in the extreme with equal numbers of students from both areas (arts and
sciences), which reflects our mission,” he said.

Union students have attended NCUR since the inaugural in 1987, and Union
hosted the conference in 1990 and 1995.

Posted on Apr 17, 1998

Friday, April 17, 4:15 p.m., Humanities 114. Kathleen Powderly,
assistant director at Division of Humanities in Medicine, SUNY Health Sciences Center at
Brooklyn, on “Ethical Issues in Perinatal HIV Disease: Case Studies.” Sponsored
by Philosophy Colloquium.

Friday, April 17, through Monday, April 20, 8 and 10 p.m., Reamer
Campus Center Auditorium. Film, Tomorrow Never Dies, presented by film
committee.

Saturday, April 18, 11:15 a.m., Memorial Chapel. Joseph A.
Gallian of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, on “Touring a Torus”, keynote
for the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. (See story)

Monday, April 20. Admissions “On Campus Day” for
accepted candidates.

Monday, April 20, 8 p.m, Nott Memorial. Prof. Stephen Berk on
“Ben-Gurion, Roosevelt and the Holocaust.” (See story)

Tuesday, April 21, from 12:15 to 1 p.m., Chet's. Saxophonist
Loren Schoenberg joins pianist Tim Olsen, assistant professor of music, in a concert of
lunchtime jazz.

Wednesday, April 22, 4 p.m., Alternative Coffeehouse (Raymond).
Seth Greenberg, Gilbert R. Livingston Professor of Psychology, will lecture on
“Selling Psychological Myth for Profit.” Supported by the Intellectual
Enrichment Program.

Thursday, April 23, noon, Old Chapel. Employee Recognition
Luncheon honors five retirees and 61 employees for their years of service.

Thursday, April 23, at 8 p.m. Memorial Chapel. Yom HaShoah, the
day of remembrance, conclude Lessons for Humanity, the Holocaust remembrance
series.

Through April 23, Nott Memorial. Photo exhibitions French
Children of the Holocaust and Of Light Amidst the Darkness – The Danish
Rescue, part of Lessons for Humanity.

Saturday, April 25, 8 p.m., Memorial Chapel. Singer-songwriter
Catie Curtis performs in a free public concert sponsored by Union's Bisexual, Gay and
Lesbian Advocates and Defenders.

Ongoing at various sites and times. “Dialogues on
Race.” (See story.)

Posted on Apr 17, 1998

Sophomore Jennifer Jakubowski last month squeezed her organic chemistry
final in between company dance classes with the Miami City Ballet, “amazing”
parties and meetings with personnel from the dance company.

Winner of the Edward Villella Fellowship, Jakubowski spent two weeks
studying with the highly-acclaimed Miami City Ballet under the leadership of Villella, who
received an honorary degree in 1991. The internship is made possible with support from
Charles Lothridge, Union Class of 1944.

Jakubowski says that she was thrilled with the prospect of working with
Edward Villella, a recent recipient of the National Medal of the Arts and Kennedy Center
Honors. “I feel it is every dancer's dream to work with someone as accomplished
as Edward Villella,” she says.

During her time in Miami, Jakubowski had the chance to attend
Villella's company class with all of the dancers for the Miami City Ballet. “At
first I was really intimidated because these were professional dancers I was dancing with,
but eventually I got into the groove of the class and it was fun,” she says. She
enjoyed Villella's teaching style, she says, but found the classes to be challenging.
“At first it was hard to get used to the very intricate steps and rhythms, but once I
got the hang of it, it was fun,” she says.

Jakubowski says that perhaps the most important thing she learned during
her internship was how a ballet company operates. “I know about being on stage, about
performing, rehearsals, and lighting, but I really didn't know much about running a
ballet company. There are all kinds of people behind a ballet company that you never see
when you go to a ballet,” she says.

Now that she is back in Schenectady, Jakubowski, a participant in
Union's Scholars program, is working on an independent research project. “Having
to do the independent study for the Scholars program gave me an excuse to try something
different,” says Jakubowski, who is working with Professor Miryam Moutillet and a
fellow student to choreograph a dance piece that combines the performing arts with the
visual arts. In May she will perform her new piece at the Steinmetz Symposium,
Union's exposition of student creative, scholarly, and research achievements.

Posted on Apr 13, 1998

Schenectady, N.Y. (April 13, 1998) – The Emerson String Quartet, one of the world's foremost string quartets, will perform at Union College's Memorial Chapel on Sunday, April 26, at 3 p.m. as part of the Schenectady Museum-Union College Concert Series.

This is the quartet's fourteenth Series appearance.

The program is to include Beethoven's Op. 135 in F; Shostakovich's No. 10 in A-flat, Op. 118; and Beethoven's Op. 130 in B flat with Gross Fuge, Op. 133.

The Emerson String Quartet, which takes its name from the great American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, was founded in 1976. Members include Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker, violins; Lawrence Dutton, viola; and David Finckel, cello.

Acclaimed for its artistry and dynamic performance style and its mastery of both classical and contemporary works, the Emerson's impressive list of achievements includes an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording contract; four Grammy Awards, including one this year for their recording of the complete Beethoven string quartets; and Gramophone Magazine's Record of the Year awards.

The New York Times has called the Quartet “one of the hottest quartets,” and praises its “consistently insightful, polished concert performances” and “series of brilliant recordings for Deutsche Grammophon.” The Financial Times (London) has said: “As one of the foremost chamber ensembles around today, the Emerson provides a special kind of musical nourishment all too rare.”

The concert at Union College will include two of the late great Beethoven string quartets which the Emerson Quartet will perform one week later, on May 3, at Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.

The Schenectady Museum-Union College chamber concerts are made possible, in part, by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Schenectady County Initiative Program.

Memorial Chapel is located near the center of the Union campus. Parking is available on campus and on nearby sidestreets.

Tickets, at $20 ($8 for students), are available in advance at the Schenectady Museum (518)382-7890 and at the door at 7 p.m. For more information, call 372-3651.