The College's Board of Trustees has engaged Academic Search Consultation Service, of Washington, D.C., to assist the presidential search process, search chair Frank Messa '73 announced on March 31.
The search committee is accepting nominations at the search site: http://www.unionsearch.org.
Academic Search specializes in chief executive officer and chief academic officer searches.
Read MoreJohn Garver, professor of geology, is co-author (with P.R. Reiners, Lydia Walker '04, former Union colleague Joan Ramage, and Stephanie Perry '04) of a paper, “Implications for timing of Andean uplift based on thermal resetting of radiation-damaged zircon in the Cordillera Huayhuash, northern Perú” in Journal of Geology, (2005, v. 113, n. 2, p. 117-138.) The paper details how the Andes have been uplifted and grown in the last 10 million years. The main implication is that the uplift and high topography in this part of the Andes is less than 6 million years old, which is young geologically. The paper focuses on the uplifted area that includes Nevado Yerupaja, the 21,000-foot peak made famous in “Touching the Void” a book and film by Joe Simpson about an epic climbing adventure. The paper was based largely on the senior thesis work of Walker and Perry. Walker has joined Peace Corps to work on reforestation and conservation projects in Guatemala. Perry is pursuing her master's degree at the University at Albany with a thesis about the timing of the formation of the St. Elias Mountains in Alaska, in collaboration with Garver.
Read MoreKenneth G. DeBono, Gilbert R. Livingston Professor of the Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, recently presented two papers at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, held this year in Boston. The first was with Elena Baror '05, titled “Self-monitoring and product familiarity as predictors of ad effectiveness.” The second was with Lindsay Miarmi '04, titled “The impact of distractions on heuristic processing: Internet pop-ups ads and stereotype use.”
Read MoreMark Toher, professor of classics, has received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship from Harvard University in support of his work on an edition with text, translation and commentary of the life of the first Roman emperor Augustus by a contemporary Greek writer, Nicolaus of Damascus. The sabbatical enhancement grant for the next academic year is $30,000, the maximum award under the program. He will also be a visiting scholar of Wolfson College in Oxford next year.
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Twelve Tibetan monks from the Gaden Jangtse Monastery in India will visit campus from April 11 through 15 for meditation lessons, multi-tonal chanting, a philosophical debate, class visits, and the four-day construction of a colorful “Sand Mandala of Wisdom” in the Nott Memorial.
They will build the mandala Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The construction of the colorful and intricate piece will be broadcast live via the College's website at http://www.union.edu/monkcam/.
This is the monks' second visit to Union. A group of seven was here in October 2001. The visit is funded through a Freeman Foundation grant to East Asian Studies.
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