Posted on Feb 1, 2002

Events

Friday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Women's ice hockey vs. RIT

Friday, Feb. 1, through Monday, Feb. 4, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: The Others

Friday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Union College chamber series presents Wolfgang
Holzmair, baritone and Russell Ryan, piano. An international star who
has performed in all of the world's leading opera houses,
Wolfgang Holzmair sings a lieder program of works by Schumann,
Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, and Mendelssohn. Tickets are $20, half-price
for students, Union students free. For more information, call ext.
6131 or 372-3651.

Saturday, Feb. 2, 2 p.m.
Alumni Gymnasium pool
Swimming vs. Ithaca

Tuesday, Feb. 5, 5 p.m.
Hale House
Black History Month dinner with students and faculty.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 4:15 p.m.
Humanities 019
Dr. Gregg Meyer '84, who went on to become a Rhodes Scholar,
on “Keeping Patients Safe.” Meyer, director of the Center for
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality in Rockville, Md., is
the first of three speakers in
the Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership's lecture series
titled “Wednesday Works in Progress.”

Thursday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial
Perspectives at the Nott presents William D. Phillips, Nobel
Prize winner in physics, on “Almost Absolute Zero: the Story of
Laser Cooling.” Reception to follow.

Friday, Feb. 8, 6 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse
Women's basketball vs. St. Lawrence

Friday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.
Achilles Rink
Men's ice hockey vs. Clarkson

Friday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse
Men's basketball vs St. Lawrence

Friday, Feb. 8, through Monday, Feb. 11, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: Zoolander

Exhibits

Through Feb. 7
Arts Atrium Gallery
Department of Visual Arts presents “Dynamic Range:
The Prints of Fred Becker.” Closing reception and gallery talk
is Thursday, Feb. 7, at 3:30 p.m.

Through March 10
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“Archi-neering,” an exhibition of drawings, photographs,
models and video of work by the architect Helmut Jahn, named one of
the Ten Most Influential Living American Architects by
the Institute of American Architects.

Through March 15
Social Science Faculty Lounge Art Gallery
“Intricate Perceptions,” a collaborative exhibit by Davide
Cervone, mathematics; Patrick O'Rourke, formerly of Mandeville
Gallery; and artist Jonathan Leavitt. Hours are Monday
through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Opening reception Tuesday,
Jan. 22, at 3:45 p.m.

Posted on Feb 1, 2002

Dr. Gregg Meyer '84, who went on to become a
Rhodes Scholar, will speak on “Keeping Patients Safe” on Wednesday,
Feb. 6, at 4:15 p.m. in Humanities 019.

Meyer is director of the Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality in Rockville, Md.

After Union, he earned his medical degree from
Albany Medical College, and a master's degree from Oriel College
at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar in
biological anthropology and a visiting scholar at the Wellcome Unit
for the History of Medicine. He did a residency through
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

His talk is the first in a three-part series, “Wednesday Works
in Progress,” sponsored by the College's Center for Bioethics
and Clinical Leadership.

On Feb. 13, Carol Weiss, associate professor of
psychology, will speak on “Pain.”

On Feb. 20, Robert Wells, professor of history, will speak
on “Facing the `King of Terrors:' Living with Death in
American Society.”

All talks are Wednesdays at 4:15 p.m. in Humanities 019.

For more information, call 388-8045. For information visit Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership .

Posted on Feb 1, 2002

A committee has been formed to review the
professional performance of David Fuller, systems librarian at
Schaffer Library. Committee members are Gail Golderman (chair),
Mary Cahill, and Bruce Connolly. Members of the College
community who wish to provide written comments about his
performance, development, scholarship or service should contact
a member of the committee, in care of Schaffer Library, by
February 18. Interviews may be arranged by contacting the chair at ext. 6624.

Posted on Feb 1, 2002

Events in the College's celebration of Black
History Month include a dinner with students and faculty of color
on Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 5 p.m. in Hale House; “An Evening of
Dinner and Jazz” on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in Old Chapel; and “Taste of
the Tropics” on Feb. 22, at 5 p.m. in Old Chapel.

Other events will be listed in upcoming issues.

Posted on Feb 1, 2002

William D. Phillips, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics,
will speak on “Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling”
on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

His talk, free and open to the public, is part of the
College's “Perspectives at the Nott”
lecture series.

Phillips, a leading researcher in ultra-low temperature
atomic physics at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, received the 1997 Nobel Prize.

The cooling and trapping of atoms, a discipline that
emerged in the mid-1970's with the advent of laboratory lasers, have
allowed scientists to observe and measure quantum phenomena in atoms.

Phillips' lecture, aimed at the nonscientist, will describe
how laser cooling works.