Posted on Mar 8, 2002

Events

Friday, March 8, 10 a.m.
Nott Memorial
IBM @ Union Day featuring a panel discussion on
Converging Technologies, with panelists including senior executives
at IBM: John Kelly III '76, Steven Mills '73 and Robert Moffat
Jr. '78. To be followed at 11:30 a.m. by a presentation on the
IBM Partnership with Union.

Friday, March 8, 1 p.m.
Strauss Lounge, Reamer Campus Center
Team-oriented workshop on how to define, assess and
design winning solutions. (Sign-up in Becker Career Center.)

Friday, March 8, throughout day
Reamer Campus Center Atrium
Interactive displays and demonstrations of cutting-edge
IBM technologies.

Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Yulman Theater presents Shakespeare's classic
Romeo and Juliet, with Frederick Kountz and Christa Marie Tiangha Flores
in the lead roles. Directed by
Prof. William A. Finlay.
Other shows are Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 3 at
2 p.m.; and March 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. For more information,
call the box office at ext. 6545.

Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
“Mozart and More,” a concert by the Union College and
Community Orchestra under the direction of Victor Klimash. Featured
guest artist is Young Kim playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No.
21 in C Major. This event is free and open to the public. For
more information, call ext. 6785.

Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Romeo and Juliet

Friday, March 8, through Monday, March 11, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: Spy Game

Friday, March 15, through Monday, March 18, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Auditorium
Film: Not Another Teen Movie

Exhibits

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.

Feb. 14 through March 21
Arts Atrium Gallery
Photography exhibits: “Pilgrimage” by Kevin Bubriski of
visitors at the World Trade Center site; and “Clips,” curated by
Prof. Martin Benjamin, a collection of news clips about
photography coverage of recent world events.

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

Last week's concert by Apartment Three filled Old
Chapel with more than 200 people, thanks in large part to a good deal
of research and leg work by economics majors Natalie Gulden
and Katie Butterfield, who used the marketing and publicity of
the event as the basis of their senior thesis.

“We were extremely pleased with the outcome,” Gulden
said after the show. “Because both of us would like to be a part of
the marketing/event planning industry, this thesis was exactly what
we needed before graduating.

“Our advisor, Hal Fried gave us a chance of a lifetime and we
are very lucky to learn so much about our abilities before leaving Union.”

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

The College's Board of Trustees has approved a
2002-03 balanced budget that meets the challenge of limiting increases
in tuition and fees while supporting enhancements of the
College's academic, residential and athletic components.

Included in the budget:

• Tuition, room and board rates are to increase 4.9 percent
  to $34,253. The increase ends nine consecutive years of
  percentage decreases. Costs are $27,245 for tuition, $3,697 for housing,
  $3,042 for food, $229 student activity fee, and $40 for the phase-in of
  a House System fee.
• A commitment to continue to meet the financial need of
  all students. Financial aid is to increase 9.7 percent over the current
  year's forecasted expenditure to $18.9 million, $18.5 million of
  which represents institutional funds with the remainder provided
  by government sources such as work study and supplemental
  education opportunity grants.

The salary and wage budget is $34.8 million, representing about
36 percent of the total College budget. The pool for faculty and
administrators will increase 3 percent, and the pool for staff will go up by
4 percent.

The budget includes an entering class of 560 freshmen
and 30 transfer students. Budgeted enrollment for all four
undergraduate classes will be 2,030, an increase of 13 over this
year's forecasted enrollment and 11 more than the average enrollment for
the last six years. The increase in the freshman class is needed to
offset the loss of $500,000 occasioned by the fall in short-term interest
rates and represents the amount the College will realize from 40
students after providing for financial aid and academic support.

In other action, the board declared tenurable and promoted
to associate professor Davide Cervone, mathematics; William
Keat, mechanical engineering; Dianne McMullen, performing arts;
Presha Neidermeyer, Graduate Management Institute; and Edward
Pavlic, English.

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

The College's Web site will change from garnet to
“IBM Blue” in celebration of Friday's conference and the launch
of the IBM Partnership with Union.

Here is a schedule of events on Friday:

10 a.m., Nott Memorial – panel discussion on
Converging Technologies, with panelists including senior executives
at IBM: John Kelly III '76, Steven Mills '73 and Robert Moffat
Jr. '78.

11:30 a.m., Nott Memorial – support announcement
and presentation on the IBM Partnership with Union.

1 p.m., Strauss Lounge, Reamer Campus Center – team-oriented workshop on how to define, assess and
design winning solutions. (Sign-up in Becker Career Center.)

Throughout the day, Reamer Campus Center
Atrium – interactive displays and demonstrations of
cutting-edge IBM technologies.

Posted on Mar 8, 2002

The College on Friday is to receive support from IBM aimed
at helping undergraduate students gain access to
cutting-edge technology.

The support – available for a wide array of academic disciplines – is to be announced Friday at IBM @Union Day by President
Roger Hull, who called the support “a sign of recognition for Union's
unique liberal arts and engineering tradition reflecting an
interdisciplinary approach to education.”

Hull said the IBM educational support package is unique for
two reasons. “While many such programs are aimed at
graduate students, this one is aimed at our undergraduate community.
It builds on our groundbreaking Converging Technologies
program, and makes it possible for a larger number of undergraduates to
gain classroom and laboratory experiences that expose them
to, and teache them about, the impact of technology across
multiple disciplines.”

Intersection of Disciplines

“Knowledge is increasingly occurring at the intersection
of disciplines,” Hull said. “Whether you are an undergraduate
student in biology, chemistry, engineering, economics, physics, philosophy
or psychology, you need to understand both the
interrelationship between disciplines and the importance of technology
in furthering knowledge.”

Dr. John E. Kelly III, senior vice president and group executive
of IBM Technology Group, said the support is part of IBM's
ongoing desire to enhance a strong technical presence at select leading
colleges and universities. “This is an investment in the future of the College, the Capital District
and New York State,” he said.

Kelly said the partnership with Union will further promote
the sharing of technical knowledge and the formation of joint
programs between RPI in Troy and the University at Albany.

Smaller and Faster

Nanotechnology – technology at the molecular level- is
a fast-growing field focused on creating chips, and systems that
go with them that are much smaller and faster. IBM is a leader in
this field, having, for instance, built the world's first array of transistors
out of carbon nanotubes – miniscule cylinders as small as 10
atoms across, 500 times smaller than today's silicon-based transistors

The supercomputer at University at Albany is an IBM
RS/6000, a system extensively used by university researchers as
they confront the daunting science and technology challenges
associated with the development of new generations of computer chips.
The targeted portfolio of computer devices ranges from the
more “traditional” microprocessor and memory type computer chips
to the emerging areas of biochips, micro- and nano-systems
and ultra-high frequency communication devices and
associated equipment.

IBM has deep roots in NYS. It is headquartered in Armonk, NY,
in lower Westchester County with several factories in the state
(East Fishkill, Endicott, Poughkeepsie). The company also has a large
sales office in Albany. Last year, revenue from sales and services
totaled approximately $85 billion worldwide. The Technology
Group, which Kelly oversees, represents about $10 billion of this total
and includes the microelectronics and storage technology divisions.

Union's Converging Technologies curriculum integrates topics
in bioengineering, nanotechnology, mechatronics and
pervasive computing into the undergraduate engineering and liberal
arts programs. Various engineering and liberal arts courses from
the freshman through the senior years touch on elements of these
new emerging technologies, providing enhanced exposure to the
digital computer, industrial internships, and internationalism
throughout Union's curricula.