Two at-large positions on College committees are open for election this Spring: one
position on the Academic Affairs Council (currently held by Seth Greenberg), and one
position on the Student Affairs Council (currently held by Jim Adrian).
Both positions are three-year terms.
Elections will be held at a faculty meeting later this term. Other nominations may be
sent to Therese McCarty, chair of the Faculty Executive Committee, in economics.
Jay Newman, Gordon Gould Professor of Physics, was elected
member-at-large of the New York State Section of the American Physical Society's
Executive Committee.
A. G. Davis Philip, Research Professor of Physics, and Mark Kostuk '01
spent a week this spring studying some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, belonging to the
Globular Clusters, at the Vatican Observatory in New Mexico.
Grant E. Brown, assistant professor of biology, is co-author with
Jean-Guy J. Godin of an article, “Who dares, learns: chemical inspection behaviour
and acquired predator recognition in a characin fish,” in the journal, Animal
Behaviour, 57: 475-481. Brown and Godin also have written “Chemical alarm signals
in Trinidadian guppies: laboratory and field evidence,” accepted for publication in Canadian
Journal of Zoology. They also have written, with Jessica Pederson '99, “Fin
flicking behaviour: a visual anti-predator alarm signal in a characin fish (Hemigrammus
erythrozonus)” to appear in Animal Behaviour.
If you want to know whether Union's new bike patrols are meeting
one of their main objectives – enhancing community relations – just ask Officer
Ed Teller.
“I talked to more people in the first three days than I have in the last three
months,” he said at the end of his first week on the bike.
Fellow Officer Joe Glasser, who rides the 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift, says that patrols are
meeting another important objective – safety. He says he has escorted a number of
students who were grateful for the company while walking or riding their bikes at night.
Teller and Glasser admit to a few sore muscles and some very sound sleeping once the
shift is over. But this week, they say, they're adjusting to life in the saddle.
One problem they haven't tackled yet: angry dogs like the one that took off after
Teller as he rode away from Tuesday's press conference on Seward Place.
The College welcomes hundreds of prospective students and their families
for the second Admitted Student Reception on Monday, April 19. The College hosted 107
prospective Union Scholars for an overnight on Sunday, April 12, and then another 139
accepted students and their families on Monday. Faculty and staff were
“outstanding” and a record 35 Union students joined the prospectives at lunch to
talk about life at Union, said Kerry Mendez, associate dean of admissions. “We want
to thank everyone who rallies around our guests and makes them feel special the way that
only Union can,” she said.
The Canadian-Indian film Fire by Deepa Mehta kicks off a
six-event International Film Festival on Wednesday, April 21, at 8 p.m. in Social Sciences
016.
Other films are Wedding in Galilee (April 26), Underground (May 3), In
the Realm of the Senses (May 10), Faust (May 17) and Men with Guns (May
24). All films (except Fire at 8 p.m.) are at 7:30 p.m. in Social Sciences 016.
For information, contact Prof. Daniel Mosquera, modern languages, ext. 6415 or mosquerd@union.edu.
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