Dawn Parisi, leadership gifts officer,
received the Sphinx Award from the College's chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity. The award is given to a professor or administrator for support of
minority students at the College. Parisi has assisted the fraternity with the establishment
of the Mohammad A. Omar '94 Memorial
Community Service Internship, which was announced at the fraternity's recent 20th
anniversary commemoration. Omar died in a boating accident in 1993. The internship
will be awarded to a Union student through an application process to enable the
student to volunteer at a non-profit.
Prof. Cox gives paper at Ohio conference
Lorraine Morales Cox, assistant
professor of art history, gave a paper, “Locating the Black Self in Contemporary
Visual Culture,” at the second annual Black Atlantic Community Conference
at Central State University, the oldest historically black state college in
Ohio. The theme of this year's conference was “Black Being and
Consciousness.”
Prof. Tann’s ‘Morlais Castle’ performed
Hilary Tann, professor of music, had her composition “The Walls of
Morlais Castle” (for flute, viola, cello) performed in New
York City's Merkin Hall in a debut concert by Eight
Strings and a Whistle. Supported in part by a grant from the Humanities
Development Fund, her piano trio, “Nothing Forgotten,” is available at Tower
Records and Amazon.com on North/South Recordings R 1027 (“Millennium
Overture”). Her commissioned anthem “Psalm 136” (Luminaria Magna) for
chorus and organ is to be premiered June 29 at St. Peter's Church, Albany,
at the opening convocation of the Region II Convention of the American Guild of
Organists.
Prof. Vineyard publishes CLAC research
Michael F. Vineyard, Frank and Marie Louise
Bailey Professor of Physics, made the College an institutional member of the
CLAS Collaboration at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The
CLAS is a large particle spectrometer used to investigate the quark-gluon structure of matter with the 6-GeV electron
accelerator at Jefferson Lab. It is operated by an international collaboration
of about 35 institutions. Vineyard, a long-time member of the CLAS
Collaboration, published four papers this year in Physical Review and Nuclear
Instruments and Methods. For more information see: http://www1.union.edu/~vineyarm/research/research.html.
Departing students: bring out your sofas
Residential
Life, Campus Protestant Ministry and Facilities Services have organized an
end-of-year program that will allow students to donate everything from
furniture to food to be used by clients of Bethesda House and Home Furnishings.
“Got
things you'd rather not take home? Don't just leave them in your room. Donate
them to be put to good use,” read a recent letter to students.
Items
that can be donated include furniture, carpets, clothes, linens, electronics,
kitchen utensils and supplies, and prepackaged/unopened food.
Drop
points are as follows:
- Fox — Central Lounge
- Davidson — Central Lounge
- North — First-floor Lounge
- Richmond
— Basement Lounge
- West — Staff Office, 1st floor
- Webster — Basement Lounge
- College Park,
Wade Lupe, Greeks, Themes — bring small items to one of the residence hall
drop-points.
Larger
items may be marked with tags available at ResLife.