Paul
Rose, visiting assistant professor of psychology, is coauthor (with Sandra
L. Murray and John G. Holmes) of an
article, “Putting the Partner Within Reach: A Dyadic Perspective on Felt Security
in Close Relationships,” that appears in the February issue of the Journal of Personality & Social
Psychology (Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 327-347).
The authors argue that felt insecurity in a partner's positive regard
and caring stems from a specifically dyadic perception — the perception that a
partner is out of one's league. The researchers found that putting the partner
more within the psychological grasp of low self-esteem people may effectively
increase felt security in the partner's regard.
Mark Walker filmed for NOVA program on Hitler’s bomb
Mark
Walker, professor of history, was interviewed on Friday for an upcoming
NOVA documentary on PBS television about
the Nazi nuclear weapons development program before and during World War II. Producer-director David Sington
was on campus with a crew to film Walker
in several locations – his office, the Nott Memorial, and walking through the
snow in Library Field. Sington had earlier filmed in Norway
at the site of a nuclear reactor, where the Germans had begun a program to
refine weapons grade uranium. The one-hour show is to air sometime this fall.
Play by senior combines myth and modern tragedy
“Medea Yates,” an
explosive one-act play written and directed by senior Phillip J.M.
Chorba, will be staged Friday and Saturday, March 11 and 12, at 8 p.m., and
Sunday, March 13, at 2 p.m. in Yulman Theater.
Performances are free and open to the public.
The play spins a modern interpretation of the Medea myth,
a Greek tragedy by Euripides, set in modern day Texas. Chorba crosses the myth with elements
from the highly publicized murder case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother convicted in 2002 of drowning
her five children in a bathtub.
Chorba calls his one act play “a classical tragedy infused
with modern events.”
The cast includes students Carly Hirschberg, Cat Howlett,
Charles Holiday, Andrew Burke and Cooper Braun-Enos. The play uses video clips
to emphasize themes and plotlines. The background music is by Tom Waits.
For more information, contact the Yulman Theater box
office at (518) 388-6545 or visit http://www.union.edu/theatre/current_season/.
Three recent grads named to ’40 Under 40′
Three Union College alumni – Ted Eveleth '87, Kate Hedgeman '96, and John Vero '97 – have been selected as young area business leaders in the annual “40 Under 40” program.
Now in its fifth year, the program recognizes outstanding members of the business community under the age of 40. The list of winners includes entrepreneurs, CEOs, bankers and small business owners from companies throughout the Capital Region. Selections were made by a panel of area business leaders from nearly 200 nominations.
Ted Eveleth
Eveleth is president and chief executive officer of Cyclics Corp., a manufacturer of plastic products based in Schenectady and Schwarzheide, Germany. After graduating from Union with a degree in economics, Eveleth received an MBA from Cornell University and worked for companies in Boston and Washington, D.C. Upon returning to the Capital Region, he founded Cyclics with former Union classmate (and “40 Under 40” recipient) John Ciovacco.
Cyclics has grown from a 5-person company to one with nearly 100 employees on two continents and a $40 million production plant. It was named The Business Review's Most Promising New Enterprise in 2003, and the Schenectady Chamber of Commerce's Outstanding New Enterprise in 2002. Eveleth has encouraged employee involvement in the community through participation in United Way and with Junior Achievement.
Kate Hedgeman
Hedgeman, a native of Albany, graduated magna cum laude from Union with a degree in political science. After a year in Washington, D.C., working in government relations, she returned to attend Albany Law School. She received her law degree in 2000 from Albany Law, where she was an associate editor of The Albany Law Review and awarded the Dominick Gabrielli award for excellence in Appellate Moot Court.
Hedgeman is an associate attorney with the Albany law firm of Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, where she practices in the areas of commercial and civil litigation municipal law and government relations. She is a recipient of the 2004 New York State Multiple Sclerosis Society Corporate Achievers award for excellence in community service. She also founded GenNEXT, a business council of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce for business professionals ages 23-40.
John Vero
Vero graduated from Union with a degree in political science and went on to receive a law degree from Albany Law School. He is an associate at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna in Albany as a member of the firm's corporate, commercial real estate, healthcare and governmental relations practice groups. While at Albany Law, Vero was a member of the National Moot Court Appellate Team and managing editor of research and writing for the Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology. He is also a former member of the School's board of trustees (2000-2003).
Vero is a member of the board of associates at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, and a member of the Union College Alumni Council. In addition, he is vice chair and steering committee member of the GenNEXT Council and a member of the Board of Managers of the Albany YMCA.
“40 Under 40” is sponsored by the Capital District Business Review, Fox 23 News and Key Bank. Winners will be recognized at a luncheon on May 5 at the Crowne Plaza in Albany.
Previous winners include Union alumni John Ciovacco ‘87, chairman of Cyclics Corporation in 2004 and Wayne MacDougall '86 in 2002, the chief financial officer of MapInfo Corporation.
In addition, business magazine Crains NY, announced their list of ‘40 under Forty' for 2005 this winter as well. Union alumni Kevin Rampe and Devin Wenig, both from the class of 1988, were chosen. Rampe is president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Wenig is president of Reuter's Customer Segments.
“We look for business people under 40 who work in New York City and are doing exceptional work in a broad range of fields,” said Valerie Blockman of Crains. “They are judged on their contribution to the success of their companies, which can be measured through revenue growth, new initiatives, and prominence in their fields among other factors.” The list is 17 years old.
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Students give 12 posters at national ACS meeting
Fifteen students and three faculty members will attend the
229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), to be
held in San Diego
March 13 through 17.
Fourteen of the students are seniors
who will present a total of 12 posters on their senior thesis research:Mayrita Arrandale, James Bush, Nathan Davis, Eric Dimise,
Jennifer Eliseo, Eric Farrell, Jessica Grondin, Elizabeth Lax, Evan Leibner,
Shira Mandel, James Miller, Mark Morris, Melissa Passarelli and Sarah-Jo
Stimpson. (Presentation topics will be listed in an upcoming edition.)
David Olson, a junior who performed summer 2004 research in Prof. Kehlbeck's
lab, will also attend.
Passarelli
has been selected as one of six undergraduates in the country to receive an I.
M. Kolthoff Enrichment Award from the Analytical Division of the ACS. The award
supports undergraduate student travel to the ACS meeting to present a poster in
the Analytical Division poster session. Award details can be found at http://www.acs-analytical.duq.edu/kolthoffaward.html.
The other students' travel is being supported
through IEF grants, faculty research grants and the Chemistry Department.
Faculty attending are Mary
Carroll, Michael Hagerman and Joanne Kehlbeck. Carroll will participate in
SOCED committee meetings prior to the conference. Hagerman will present a
poster to the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry on research he
performed in collaboration with Prof. Michael Carpenter from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at
SUNY Albany.
The
College's Chemistry Club will receive the ACS “Outstanding Student Affiliate
Chapter” for its 2003-2004 activities. Student Affiliate Chapters from only 26
institutions in the U.S. and
Puerto Rico are receiving this award; Union is the only school in New York to receive the
recognition this year. The club will also present a poster on its
activities.
The
meeting, with about 15,000 attendees, will include more than 9,200
presentations in more than 900 technical sessions; an exposition of chemical
products, instrumentation, and literature; an employment clearinghouse; and
undergraduate student programming. For more, visit: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetingssandiego2005sa05_index.html.
Participation
in a national meeting on this scale is a very valuable experience for
undergraduate students, according to Carroll. “Students will be able to attend
plenary lectures, invited symposia and hear contributed papers in areas of
chemistry familiar to them from their studies at Union (analytical chemistry,
biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, etc.) and areas that are not part of our
undergraduate curriculum (agricultural chemistry, chemistry and law, catalysis,
etc.). The 15 Union
College students will
participate in all aspects of the conference.”