Through Oct. 17
Arts Atrium, Arts Building
“Paintings and Work on Paper” by Barbara Grossman. An artist's slide presentation on Thursday,
Oct. 16, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Arts 215, followed by reception
from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Through Dec. 7
The Mandeville Gallery in Nott Memorial
“Girl Printers: Talented Women Strut Their Stuff!”: A
showcase featuring printing, books, and ephemera by 37 girl printers.
Through December
Arts Atrium, Arts Bldg. (gallery)
Sculpture Exhibition
Thursday, Oct. 16 though Sunday, Oct. 19
Homecoming and Family Weekend
For complete schedule visit:
http://www.union.edu/newsite/Alumni/2003/full_schedule.php
Friday, Oct. 17
12:30 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center Auditorium – Huban
Gowadia, program manager of the Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Division
Science & Technology Directorate Department of Homeland Security on
“Technology Challenges faced by the Department of Homeland Security in
Detecting Explosives and Weapons of Mass Destruction.” Sponsored by mechanical
engineering.
Saturday, Oct. 18, through Monday, Oct. 20
8 and 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center auditorium – Movie: Legally Blonde 2
Saturday, Oct. 18
1 p.m. – Frank Bailey
Field – Football, Dutchmen vs. Rochester (UCAA contest and Homecoming Weekend)
9 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – Naturally
Seven, a capella group blending rap, R&B, soul and harmony.
Sunday, Oct. 19
7 p.m. – Memorial Chapel
– Opening performance of the 2003-2004 Union College Concert Series featuring
violinist Vadim Repin and pianist Alexander Korsantia. This is also Repin's
Capital Region recital debut. Free for Union students (with ID).
Tuesday, Oct. 21
11:30 a.m.
– Old Chapel – Faculty Colloquium
with Julius
Barbanel,
professor of mathematics, “The First Great Crisis in the Foundations of
Mathematics.” A buffet lunch will follow at 12:30 p.m. in Hale House.
4 p.m. – Frank Bailey Field –
women's field hockey vs. Hartwick.
4 p.m. – Garis Field – women's soccer vs. Elmira.
7:30 p.m. – Olin 106 – Prof. Jim Dalton of Siena College on “The Religious Imagination and
the Creation Myth: Native Peoples and the Time of Origins.” Sponsored by
Protestant Campus Ministry.
Wednesday, Oct. 22
11 a.m. to
2 p.m. – Schaffer Library, third floor, book sale – $2 hardcover, $1
paperbacks.
World Series Lunch Redux- Upperclass dining.
3:30 p.m.
– Feigenbaum Hall
Conference Room – The eighth annual
Feigenbaum Forum on “Building Processes to Improve Retention.”
7 p.m. – Memorial Fieldhouse –
women's volleyball vs. Williams.
Thursday, Oct. 23
12:25 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center 106 –
Chemistry seminar with guest speaker Prof. Ernest Nolen of Colgate University, “Synthesis of C-Glycosyl Amino Acids
and Other C-Glycosoconjugates: Stories from the Lab.”
5:30 p.m. — Olin 115 – Sarah Greenwald '91, assistant professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University, on “The Simpsons Rule: Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons.” Greenwald, with her colleague Andrew Nestler at Santa Monica College, present their work on the popular TV show at a website: http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/. The talk is sponsored by the mathematics department.
7 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center auditorium – 12 Windows film series
continues. Double feature: Akira and Neo-Tokyo, with Prof. Anu Jain
moderating. Plot: Young motorcycle toughs stumble on the psychokinetic power
that started a world war in this cyberpunk, animated film.
4:30 – Humanities 213 –
Philosophy Talk with guest speaker Stewart Shapiro of Ohio State University.
Friday, Oct. 24
noon
– Everest Lounge, Hall House – Union Scholars Luncheon presents Arthur
Holden '77, chairman and CEO of First Genetic Trust, a “genetic bank” that
protects the privacy of individual genetic information, speaking on his
experience in medical and health care technology.
12:20 p.m. – Arts 215 – Lunchtime Jazz featuring
Prof. Tim
Olsen and
other Capital Region jazz artists. This week's spotlight will be on bebop.
4 p.m. – Garis Field – men's soccer
vs. Hobart (UCAA contest).
Deadline – Registration for Union College Mathematics Conference Nov. 8 and 9.
Visit www.math.union.edu/~leshk/03/Conference
for details
Saturday, Oct. 25
2 p.m. – Garis Field – men's
soccer vs. Hamilton (UCAA contest).
8 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – Union College
Concert Series continues. Featured performer, pianist Leon Fleisher. Free for Union
students (with ID).
Members of the Union College
Jazz Ensemble and the Hudson Valley Youth Jazz Orchestra will perform live on
WAMC-FM (90.3 FM) on Friday, Oct. 17 from 11:20 a.m. to noon. The two groups are
sponsoring a jazz workshop for high school musicians at the College on
Saturday, Oct. 25. The day will culminate in a public concert at 4
p.m.
in Old Chapel (admission $10) featuring both ensembles and combos.
The 32nd
annual Union College chamber
concert series opens on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. in the College's Memorial Chapel.
Featured artists will be Vadim Repin,
violin, and Alexander Korsantia, piano.
The evening's performance will consist of
Sonatas by Mozart (K.304 in e),
Prokofiev (No. 2 in D); Ysaÿe (No. 3 in d); and Strauss (in E-flat).
Repin, hailed as “the foremost young
violinist to have emerged from Russia since the
days of Heifetz, Milstein, and David Oistrakh,” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) will be making his Capital Region recital
debut.
Tickets are $25 for the general public;
half price for students; and free for Union College students and
staff with college ID.
Tickets are available at the College
Facilities Services Building (7:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Call 388-6098.) Cash or check only.
Tickets will also be sold at the door one hour prior to the concert start time.
A series subscription for all 15 performances is available for $150.
Huban Gowadia, program manager of
the Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Division Science & Technology
Directorate Department of Homeland Security, will speak on “Technology
Challenges faced by the Department of Homeland Security in Detecting Explosives
and Weapons of Mass Destruction” on Friday, Oct. 17, at 12:30 p.m. in the F.W.
Olin Center
Auditorium.
The talk, sponsored by the
College's department of the mechanical engineering, is free and open to the
public.
Gowadia will discuss how engineers
and scientists can apply their skills to the fight against terrorism, for
example keeping explosives off of airliners, and nuclear and radiological
weapons out of ports.