The Union College Heavenly Voices,
the College gospel ensemble, will present a concert, “Unified Voices &
Perfect Harmony,” on Saturday, March 5, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.
The concert, free and open to the
public, will feature special guests the Dutch Pipers and Garnet Minstrelles,
the College’s a capella singing groups.
A reception will follow the
performance.
For more information, contact Mary
Olushoga at olushogm@union.edu.
The College's winter sports are ending their
seasons, appropriately, in a flurry.
Inspired by women's swimming, who won their first
New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association championship since 1994,
the men's team last weekend rallied on the final day to take their first state
title since 1998. Senior Elliot Seguin and junior D.J. Hogenkamp have qualified for
the NCAA meet in Michigan.
Men's basketball used a last-minute buzzer beater
by junior point guard Chris Murphy to defeat top-seeded Hobart, 77-74, in the semi-final game of the
Liberty League Championship Tournament. In the next game, a halftime-ending
three-quarter court shot by junior forward Brian Scordato
helped topple No. 3 Hamilton, 88-84, and earn the program's third-ever NCAA berth. The Dutchmen, who
are making their third-ever appearance in the NCAA
Tournament, travel to play Gwynedd-Mercy College in
Philadelphia on Thursday at 7 p.m. That game is to be webcast
at http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/scoreboard/div3.
Women's basketball lost their bid to repeat as
Liberty League champions, but finish with a record of 17-8 and the No. 2 seed
in the Eastern College Athletic Conference's Upstate New York Championship
Tournament. The Dutchwomen defeated Hartwick, 79-57, in a quarterfinal game. They will play No. 3 Rochester at top-seeded St. John Fisher Saturday at 2 p.m. .
Men's hockey clinched home ice in the first round
of the ECACHL playoffs. They will host the Golden
Knights for the second straight year when the best of three series begins
Friday, March 4, at 7 p.m.
In men's indoor track, senior Sean Washington won
his third consecutive indoor state championship in the 55-meter race. He has
provisionally qualified for the NCAA meet.
For more, visit http://www.union.edu/Athletics.
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“Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004” appears through March 7 in the Burns Arts Atrium
Gallery. Ten Iraqi civilians were given disposable cameras in April and May of
2004 by the Daylight Community Arts Foundation and asked to reveal Iraq.
The
exhibit consists of 30 color prints. The exhibition was curated
by PixelPress, funded in part by the Open Society
Institute, the Department of Photography & Imaging and New York University's
Tisch
School of the Arts.
Sponsored by Visual Arts. Call ext. 6714 for details.
Design engineer and technoartist
Natalie Jeremijenko will tackle questions about technology serving humanity in
a conference, “High Voltage Fields,” on Saturday, March 5, at College Park Hall
and Schenectady Museum.
The day-long symposium which will
explore the increasingly porous boundaries between the arts, science and
technology. Participants will address the need for interdisciplinary
communication among an increasingly fractious culture.
Jeremijenko will give the keynote
presentation, “Who knows? How and Why to Get Public Involvement in
Technological Futures?” and moderate a panel at 11:15 a.m. in College Park Hall
titled “Why & How? Artist, Scientists and Technologists Borrow From Each
Other to Carry Their Message?”
The other panel, “What Does the
Creative Class Mean to the Capital Region?” is at 2 p.m. at the Museum. It will
include panelist J. Douglass Klein, director of Converging Technologies and
professor of economics at Union. Stephanie
Przybylek, director of exhibitions, Schenectady
Museum, will moderate.
Jeremijenko is a 1999 Rockefeller Fellow. Her work includes digital, electromechanical and interactive systems as well as biotechnology. It has been exhibited throughout the world, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Museum Moderne Kunst in Germany and LUX in London. She is known for her creation of the “upside-down trees” sculpture at MASSMoCA.
A reception at the Schenectady Museum & Planetarium at 4 p.m. will include a performance by Bob Gluck, director of the Department of Electronic Music at the University at Albany.
Walkup registration begins at 9 a.m.
at College Park Hall. Admission is $30 for the full day, $20 for members, $15
for students, $10 for half-day and $5 for the performance only. For more
information, contact: 518-382-7890 or visit http://www.schenectadymuseum.org.
The College's Geology Department, with geologists from Skidmore College,
is hosting the 40th annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of
the Geological Society of America on March 14 through 16 in Saratoga Springs.
Among the presenters are:
George
Shaw, John and Jane Wold Professor of Geology, giving a paper, “Detrital
Component of Bentonite, a Test Using Trace Element Chemistry of Apatite.”
Donald T. Rodbell, professor,
is presenting “Variations in Glacial Flour Flux to Lakes in the Tropical Andes
Over the Past 20KA.” Co-author is Geoffrey Seltzer of Syracuse University.
Stephanie Perry '04
authored “Thermochronology of Zircon from the Sredinny
Range, Kamchatka.”
Co-authors are Prof. John Garver, Union
College; and Peter Reiners of Yale University.
John Garver,
professor, is presenting “Stability of Fission Tracks in Radiation-Damaged
Zircon from the Cordillera Huayhuash, Northern Peru.”