Posted on Apr 23, 2004

Teresa
Meade,
associate professor of history and director of Women's Studies, has published a
revised and updated paperback version of her book A Brief History of Brazil (Facts
on File, 2003). The new version, in the Checkmark Series, includes a discussion
of the election of Brazil's
president, Luis Inacio Lula da
Silva (“Lula”) in late 2003 and other recent events. In addition
Blackwell Publishers has selected A Companion to Gender History (2004),
which Meade co-edited with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, for
distribution as an “eBook.” It will be
available to library collections through “netLibrary,”  the world's premier provider of online reference,
scholarly and professional books. Finally, Meade was the invited commentator at
the European Social Science History Conference, Berlin,
Germany, March
24-27, for a session, “International Technology and American Hegemony in the
1970s.”

Posted on Apr 23, 2004

On Sunday, April 25, a group from Union
will join the March for Women's Lives in Washington,
DC.

Organizers are hoping for a
turnout of one million marchers. 

The students received an IEG grant
to pay for their transportation to the March. The bus will leave Union's
campus on Sunday, April 25, at 1 a.m.
and will return to campus at about 11:50 p.m.
A few spots on the bus have been reserved for faculty. If you are interested in
riding on the bus, please contact Zoe Oxley (oxleyz@union.edu)
or Lauren Oleet (oleetl@union.edu).

Faculty members interested in
attending the March, but not able to ride the bus, can obtain up to $100
subsidy toward their trip by applying to the Women's Studies program. Send
an e-mail to Teresa Meade, meadet@union.edu,
for details.

For more, please visit: http://www.marchforwomen.org/.

Posted on Apr 23, 2004

Walter
Hatke, May I.
Baker Professor of Visual Arts, has been elected to the National Academy of
Design, an honorary artists organization that includes many of the most
prominent artists in the country. Hatke, a renowned painter, joins the likes of
Samuel F.B. Morse, Asher B. Durand and Thomas Cole to “promote the fine arts in
America through instruction and exhibition,” according to the organization's
charter. The Academy, at 1083 Fifth Ave.
in New York City, sponsors a program
of exhibitions, a conservation laboratory and an archive. Hatke, who has taught at Union since
1986, earned his bachelor's degree from DePauw University, and his master's and MFA degrees from the University
of Iowa. His works have appeared recently in the John Pence
Gallery, San Francisco; Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa
Fe; and at MB Modern
Gallery in New York.

For more about Hatke, see this
story about a campus exhibit of his works in 2000:

http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=1128.

Posted on Apr 23, 2004

Brenda
Wineapple, a name already familiar in the literary world, was tapped to edit John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems for
the Library of America's “American Poets Project.”

For
details, visit: http://www.americanpoetsproject.org/about

Wineapple's
edition of Whittier's poems has already garnered praise. She
has included a number of his less well-known works. By happenstance, she and
the poet share the same hometown – Haverhill, Mass. Perhaps that connection made Wineapple, Union's Doris Zemurray Stone Professor in
Modern Literary & Historical Studies, the best choice to write about the
poet's surroundings and other New
England
influences that formed his sensibilities.

“His
diction is easy, his detail rich and unassuming, his emotion deep,” she writes
of the poet whose Quaker beliefs bolstered his abolitionist stand. Readers may
be surprised to learn that Whittier – perhaps recalled from middle school
days as the creator of genteel bucolic poems – was also a highly visible,
passionate political activist at the forefront of the anti-slavery movement.

Initiated
in 2003, the project is a series of the “most significant American poetry,
selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.” Its goal
is to collect a comprehensive range of American poetic achievement in
economical (compact and affordable) volumes that explore a variety of themes,
genres, and eras.

The
LOA declares its “American Poets Project” an “exciting new series [that] takes
a fresh look at America's most enduring poetry.” And Newsweek wrote that the series is “the
most important book-publishing project in the nation's history.” To date, the
series has produced more than 130 volumes.

But
perhaps the highest accolade for Wineapple and all involved in the project is
the fact that all the volumes will be “kept permanently in print.”

Posted on Apr 23, 2004

The College was ranked 77th
among the top 100 “unwired” colleges and universities in a recent study by Intel.

To see the study and rankings,
click here:

http://www.intel.com/products/mobiletechnology/unwiredcolleges.htm

Intel's “Most
Unwired College Campuses” survey ranks the top 100 schools for wireless
computing access. The survey reveals a growing number of schools across the
country where students have the freedom to wirelessly access the Internet on
notebook PCs – without a traditional wired connection – and stay connected and
informed whether they're in the dorm room, library or outdoors at the campus
quad.

To see a recent
listing of the College's growing wireless network, click here: http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=4147