Posted on Oct 25, 2002

The American String Quartet will
perform Saturday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m.
in Union College's
Memorial Chapel.

(It takes the place of a concert by
the Artemis String Quartet, which has been cancelled.)

The concert, part of the Union
College chamber concert series,
will feature a program of works by Mozart's Quartet
in E-flat Major, K. 428; Shostakovich's Quartet
No. 8, Op. 110 (1960); and Beethoven's Quartet
in c-sharp minor, Op. 131.

The American String Quartet has
achieved a position of rare esteem in the world of chamber music. Now in their
29th year, this award-winning quartet of Juilliard schoolmates continues to
expand their innovative cyclic programming, bringing their assured rapport,
flawless balance and unity of style to a program which journeys through
elegance, tragedy, and mood.

Members are Peter Winograd and
Laurie Carney, violin; Daniel Avshalomov, viola; and Margo Tatgenhorst, cello.

For more on the ASQ, see http://www.americanstringquartet.com

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

Posted on Oct 25, 2002

John Stoner, visiting assistant professor of history, had a paper titled “Could American Labor be both Neocolonialist and Pan-African? AFL-CIO African Policy and the Career of  George McCray” at the recent North American Labor History Conference.

Posted on Oct 25, 2002

Rachel Seligman,
director of Mandeville Gallery, was one of eight artists who exhibited works at
a recent exhibit titled “Silver: A 25th Anniversary Exhibit” at the
Albany Center Galleries. Seligman used the lost wax casting technique to
produce pieces that take the form of traditional jewelry, though some pieces
are not wearable. “Regardless of its wearability, I
am interested in the relationship of each piece to the human body,” she wrote
in the exhibit catalog.

Posted on Oct 25, 2002

Rudy Nydegger, associate
professor of psychology (GMI), chaired a session on “Advances in Health
Psychology” at the New York State Psychological Association's annual convention
recently. He was the chair of the convention this year. He presented a paper, “Group
Dynamics of Computer Programming Teams” at the European Applied Business
Research Conference at Rotherburg ob der Tauber, Germany
in June.  This paper was given the award
as “Best Paper” in the management section of the conference. Also at the
conference, he chaired a session on Advances in Management.

Posted on Oct 25, 2002

Robert L. Fleischer,
research professor of geology, is the author of a recent article in the
July-August issue of the American Scientist titled “Serendipitous
Radiation Monitors.” The article describes how ordinary solids that just
happened to be in the right place at the right time have been used to measure
radiation exposures. Two examples are the use of eyeglass lenses to
measure exposures of individuals to the radioactive gas radon, and employing
glass objects from near where the bomb went off at Hiroshima
to find the doses of neutrons. Geology students Steven Hadley, Nick Meyer, and
Jonathan MacDonald were co-workers on these projects.