Posted on Mar 11, 2005

Wednesday and Thursday, March 9 and 10, 7 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Auditions for The Threepenny Opera

Friday, March 11 through Monday, March 14, 8 p.m. and 10
p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Movie: Ocean's 12

Friday and Saturday, March 11 & 12, 8 p.m. and Sunday,
March 13 at 2 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Senior thesis play by Phil Chorba: “Medea Yates.”

Friday, March 11
Last day of winter term classes

Saturday, March 12, 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Union College Concert Series presents Concertante Chamber Players

Tuesday, March 15, 7:30 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Columnist Teresa Riordan on “Inventing Beauty: Women and the Technology of Beauty.” Part of “What Can Science Do For Women?” a joint lecture series for Women's History Month co-sponsored by Union and RPI.

Thursday, March 17, 4:30 p.m.
Phi Beta Kappa Rm., Schaffer Library
Philosophy Speaker series presents Dean Zimmerman of Rutgers University
on “The Ontology of Human Persons”

Friday, March 18
Winter exams end

Saturday, March 26, 8
p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Union College
chamber music series presents Johannes String Quartet

Monday, March 28
Spring term classes begin

Tuesday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Bernice Hausman on “How To Do Things with Breasts and Bottles: Technologies of Infant Feeding and the Politics of Maternity.” Part of “What Can Science Do For Women?” a joint lecture series for Women's History Month co-sponsored by Union and RPI.

Thursday, March 31
College Park Hall
“Business-Higher Ed Connection” breakfast. Principals of Superpower and Cardimag to discuss value of connection to Union.

Posted on Mar 11, 2005

This
is the last edition of New @ U for
the winter term. Publication will resume on March 31.

Posted on Mar 11, 2005

The deadline for nominations to the
15th annual Steinmetz Symposium on May
6-7 has been extended to Friday, March 11.

Students
are invited to register at the following web site:
http://www.union.edu/Steinmetz.

Each
year, some 300 students participate in the annual showcase of student
scholarly, research and creative achievement.

Contact
Barb Tricozzi in the Dean for Undergraduate Education office at
tricozzb@union.edu with questions.

Posted on Mar 11, 2005

President Roger H. Hull will give remarks at a breakfast program, “The Business-Higher Ed Connection: How industry and education are partnering to drive progress in Tech Valley,” on Thursday, March 31, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at College Park Hall.

Registration and breakfast start at 7:30; remarks start at 8.

“Tech Valley is no longer just a catch phrase. It is reality,” Hull said. “As a result, today more than ever, business and higher education are collaborating in innovative ways to drive economic growth and prosperity.”

Carl Rosner, president and CEO of CardioMag Imaging Inc.; and Philip J. Pellegrino, president of SuperPower Inc. will describe their organization's technologies, growth strategies and connection with Union College.

The event is free, sponsored by the Union College Annual Business Campaign and the Albany Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce.

To register, contact Jennifer Tys at tysj@union.edu or (518) 388-6175.

Posted on Mar 11, 2005

Frank Wicks, professor of mechanical
engineering, spoke on “Some Remarkable Engineers and the Marvels They Created”
at the Engineer's Week celebration by the Hudson Mohawk Section of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, hosted by Union on February 24. Wicks, a
frequent contributor of engineering history articles to Mechanical Engineering, spoke about Union President Eliphalet
Nott's invention of a revolutionary technique for burning newly available
anthracite coal instead of wood used in Benjamin Franklin's stove. He also
reviewed the work of other notable scientists and inventors with Union College
and local connections including Joseph Henry, George Westinghouse, Thomas
Edison and Charles Steinmetz. He concluded with the futuristic possibilities of
using computer transplants to repair damaged portions of the brain as described
by Theodore Berger '71, the David Packard Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern California, at the recent
Founders Day convocation. More than 100 students, professors and professional
engineers attended the dinner at College Park Hall.