The ninth annual Steinmetz Symposium is Friday, May 7. For the first time, classes have
been canceled for the entire day, with sessions scheduled from 9:20 a.m. to 6 p.m. with
the Steinmetz Symposium Banquet to follow at 6:30 p.m. (A schedule for the Steinmetz
Symposium/Recognition and Parents Weekend will be published in next week's Chronicle.)
Walker, Brown Elected to Faculty Posts
Mark Walker, history, was elected to a three-year term as at-large member of the
Academic Affairs Council on Monday at a general faculty meeting.
Grant Brown, biology, was elected to a three-year at-large term on Student Affairs
Council.
Bill Schwarz, director of communications, gave an overview of services provided by the
Office of Communications including media relations, publications support, and Web support.
President Roger Hull gave an update on the Union-Schenectady Initiative on Seward
Place.
Hull proposed that faculty and staff sponsor a student at Union who is a Kosovo refugee
(yet to be named). The proposal will be presented at upcoming divisional meetings.
The last faculty meeting of the year is May 19 at 12:15 p.m. in the Reamer Auditorium,
it was announced by Therese McCarty, chair of the Faculty Executive Committee. Agenda
items should be forwarded to her.
Calendar of Events
Thursday, April 29, 5 p.m.
Olin 115.
Prof. Paul Gremillion on “Sediment Record of Ballston Lake as an Archive of Water
Quality.” Seminar is finale of the Enivironmental Studies series “Lakes and
Environmental Change.”
Thursday, April 29, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial.
Religious historian Elaine Pagels on “The Origin of Satan.”
Friday, April 30, 12:15 p.m.
S and E, N304
Physics colloquium with Jim Ring, Hamilton College, on “The Influence of Modern
Technology on Architecture.”
Friday, April 30, through Monday, May 3, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
Film committee presents Saving Private Ryan.
Saturday, May 1, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse.
Second annual Carnival Day for kids 12 and under. Sponsored by UCARE. Cost: one canned
food item.
Monday, May 3, 7 p.m.
Nott Memorial.
Discussion on “The Union-Schenectady Relationship: Tomorrow” with President
Roger Hull and Mayor Al Jurczynski.
Monday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.
S.S. 016.
International Film Festival presents Underground (Il etait une fois un pays) by
Emir Kusturica, the epic about a non-existent nation that traces the history of
Yugoslavia. In Serbian with English subtitles. Series sponsored by grant from IEF.
Tuesday, May 4, 11:15 a.m.
Arts 215.
Sculptor and draftsman Philip Grausman of Yale University presents a slide talk. He also
will conduct a drawing workshop at 2 p.m. in Arts 207.
Tuesday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel.
ESPN anchor Robin Roberts.
Wednesday, May 5, 6:30 p.m.
S.S. 016
Michael Roban '88, attorney representing independent film makers, will speak at a
screening of the film High Art.
Wednesday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.
Everest Lounge.
Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of acclaimed books on Emerson and Thoreau and on American
literature and myth, on “Sinking Ships, Erupting Volcanos, and the Writing of
Literary Biography
Wednesday, May 5, 7:30 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium.
Panel discussion on “Law, Human Rights and the Diversity of Peoples” with legal
scholars Will Kymlicka and Jeremy Waldron. Part of Spencer-Leavitt residency.
Wednesday, May 5, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel.
Schenectady Museum-Union College chamber series presents season finale with Wu Han and
David Finckel.
Thursday, May 6, 3 p.m.
Nott Memorial.
GMI presents “Education in New York State: What Really Needs Reform?” a panel
discussion with state education leaders.
Friday, May 7.
Steinmetz Symposium.
Through Sunday, May 2.
Arts Atrium.
Photographs by artist Christine Bower.
Through May 30.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial.
Work by painter Stephen Pace.
Mikhail Iossel Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Mikhail Iossel, writer-in-residence, joins a distinguished group of
faculty as the latest recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is one of eight Guggenheim Fellows in fiction this year.
Other Union faculty members who have been Guggenheim Fellows include Chris Duncan and
the late Daniel Robbins, visual arts; Jordan Smith, English; Robert Wells, history; and
Brenda Wineapple, English.
Iossel is nearing completion of a book of two novellas linked by common characters.
One, written in the past, is set in Russia. The other, written in the present, is set in
the United States.
Iossel also has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Minnesota
Arts Board, the Wallace Stegner Foundation, and the Henfield Foundation/Transatlantic
Review Board.
Two of this works – “Bologoye” and “Every Hunter Wants to
Know” – were in Best American Short Stories in 1991.
Iossel received his master's in creative writing from the University of New
Hampshire at Durham, and served as the Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction writing at
Stanford. At native of St. Petersburg, Russia, he received his bachelor's degree and
his master's in engineering from the Leningrad Institute of Shipbuilding, and
received a certificate in journalism, writing, theory and translation from Leningrad State
University.
He has also held teaching posts at the University of Minnesota, the New School for
Social Research, New York University and St. Lawrence University. He is organizer this
summer of the Summer Literary Seminars, an advanced writing workshop in St. Petersburg.
Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to
give blocks of time to fellows to pursue their work with creative freedom.
Union faculty member earns Guggenheim Fellowship
Schenectady, N.Y. (April 27, 1999) – Mikhail Iossel, writer-in-residence at Union College, joins a distinguished group of Union faculty as a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is one of eight Guggenheim Fellows in fiction this year.
Iossel is nearing completion of a book of two novellas linked by common characters. One, written in the past, is set in Russia. The other, written in the present, is set in the United States.
Iossel also has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Minnesota Arts Board, the Wallace Stegner Foundation, and the Henfield Foundation/Transatlantic Review Board.
Two of this works – “Bologoye” and “Every Hunter Wants to Know” – were selected for the Best American Short Stories anthology in 1991.
Iossel received his master's in creative writing from the University of New Hampshire at Durham and served as the Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction writing at Stanford University. At native of St. Petersburg, Russia, he received his bachelor's degree and his master's in engineering from the Leningrad Institute of Shipbuilding, and received a certificate in journalism, writing, theory and translation from Leningrad State University.
He has also held teaching posts at the University of Minnesota, the New School for Social Research, New York University and St. Lawrence University. He is organizer this summer of the Summer Literary Seminars, an advanced writing workshop in St. Petersburg.
Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to give blocks of time to fellows to pursue their work with creative freedom. Other Union faculty members who have been Guggenheim Fellows include Chris Duncan and the late Daniel Robbins, visual arts; Jordan Smith, English; Robert Wells, history; and Brenda Wineapple, English.
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