Posted on May 4, 2001

Events

Friday, May 4, through Monday, May 7, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film committee presents Family Man.

Saturday, May 5, 1 p.m.
Tennis Courts
Men's tennis vs. Hartwick

Tuesday, May 8, 4 p.m.
Memorial ChapelMemorial service for Prof. Francis Lambert.

Wednesday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.
F.W. Olin Center Auditorium
Screening of the film Central Station (1999, directed by Walter Salles, Jr.), award-winning Brazilian film and discussion with William Garcia, associate professor of Spanish. Part of the exhibit and lecture series on “Saints, Sinners and Sacred Spaces: Devotional Folk Art in Latin America.”

Thursday, May 10, 12:25 p.m. Humanities 019
The Committee on Teaching presents a discussion on “Setting Expectations: How Does Plagiarism Affect Our Teaching?”

Thursday, May 10, 4:30 p.m.
Arts Atrium Gallery.
Opening reception for Steinmetz Symposium Group Exhibition. (Show runs through May 12)

Thursday, May 10, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
The Union College-Schenectady Museum chamber series presents the Nash Ensemble of London in a program to include Mozart's Oboe Quartet; Frank Bridge's Fantasy Piano Quartet; Arnold Bax's Oboe Quintet; Britten's Phantasy Oboe Quartet; and Schumann's Piano Quintet.

Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12
Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts Building, Steinmetz, Science & Engineering, and the F. W. Olin Center.
11^th annual Steinmetz Symposium.
See story this issue.
For details see the Web site: Click Here To Go To Symposium Site

Friday, May 11, through Monday, May 14, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film committee presents O' Brother, Where Art Thou.

Posted on May 4, 2001

Campus safety officers were cited recently by the Union College Club of Schenectady for their work on Nov. 19 in apprehending suspects involved in an earlier assault and robbery.

Campus safety officers located and pursued the suspects, detaining them until officers from Schenectady Police Department made the arrests.

Cited were officers Glenn Gailliard, Anthony Tubelli, Gary Olsen, Daniel Menzies, Ray Wilkinson, Sgt. Henry Michelin, and William Sickinger, director of campus safety.

Posted on May 4, 2001

The Nash Ensemble of London, in a rare U.S. tour, is to appear Thursday, May 10, 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

The concert will mark only the second time the Ensemble has appeared in the Union College-Schenectady Museum chamber series. Their last appearance was some 11 years ago.

The program includes Mozart's Oboe Quartet; Frank Bridge's Fantasy Piano Quartet; Arnold Bax's Oboe Quintet; Britten's Phantasy Oboe Quartet; and Schumann's Piano Quintet.

Tickets, at $20 ($8 for students), are available at the door. For more information, call 372-3651.

Posted on May 4, 2001

A memorial service for Francis Lambert, professor of physiology and biophysics, will be Tuesday, May 8, at 4 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

Lambert, 77, of Scotia, died April 27 after a long illness.

A member of the faculty from 1955 until he retired in 1989, he served as department chair, AAC member and a number of other posts.

“His remarkable breadth of knowledge has allowed him to teach courses as diverse as `Marine Biology' and `Neurophysiology,'” said colleague Peter Tobiessen at Lambert's retirement. “He is the person we seek out to settle our biological disputes; he is our intellectual infielder.”

He served as a consultant to an NSF summer science institute at Delhi (India) University, and was named Jacques Loeb Associate in marine biology at the Rockefeller Institute's Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. He also held a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Mark Fellowship at Harvard.

He held research grants from the American Physiological Society, and the E. N. Huyck Foundation.

A native of Virginia, he graduated from George Washington University, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Survivors include his wife, Sangvon; and a son, Peter.

Contributions may be made to Hospice of Schenectady or the Union College Scholarship Fund.

(A newspaper obituary this week incorrectly listed the time of the memorial.)

Posted on May 4, 2001

A total of 326 students – an all-time high – are to participate in the 11th annual Charles P. Steinmetz Symposium, a showcase of student scholarly and creative achievement, on Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12.

With classes canceled on May 11, concurrent sessions begin at 9:20 a.m. and run through 6 p.m.

Dance performances will take place during Session III (from 12:20 to 1 p.m., and 1:10 to 1:50 p.m.) in the Arts Building Dance Studio.

Student artwork will be exhibited throughout the weekend in the Arts Atrium of the Arts Building.

After Prize Day on Saturday morning, May 12, Steinmetz poster sessions will be in the Nott Memorial from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

Presentations will be in Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts Building, Steinmetz, Science & Engineering, and the F. W. Olin Center.

The Choir and Orchestra will perform Friday, May 11, from 8 to 9:15 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. The Jazz Ensemble will perform on Saturday, May 12, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Dutch Hollow.

Presenters, faculty sponsors, and faculty moderators are invited to a banquet on Friday, May 11, at 6:30 p.m. in Upperclass Dining. Parents and guests may attend at a cost of $12.