Faculty and staff helped welcome a total of 908 guests – including 397 prospective students – over two beautiful spring days.
This is a considerable increase from last year's yield days: 750 visitors (318 students).
“Whether you opened your classroom, spoke on a panel, attended the luncheon or spoke to just one more admitted student, please know your contributions and efforts on these important days did not go unnoticed,” said Lilia Tieman, who coordinated the yield days.
Dan Lundquist, vice president for admissions, will share details on the Class of 2009 as the May 1 deadline nears.
James Prosek, acclaimed author and illustrator, will speak on his use of watercolor and related techniques on Tuesday, April 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. in S-301 of the Science & Engineering Center.
At 4:30 p.m. Prosek will give a slide talk on the evolution of his work in Room 215 of the Arts Building. The public is invited to both events.
The Biology and Visual Arts departments of Union College are sponsoring James Prosek's return visit to campus. The New York Times has called Prosek “The Audubon of the fishing world.” While still an undergraduate at Yale, Prosek's career began with publication of his book “Trout: An Illustrated History.”
Michael Ondaatje, best known for his landmark novel, The English Patient, will speak and read from his work on Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
The talk, part of Union's Perspectives at the Nott lecture series, is free and open to the public.
The English Patient won the 1992 Booker Prize and then became an Academy Award-winning movie. The author of five novels, Ondaatje also writes memoirs, film scripts and poetry.
Born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), he lives in Toronto and teaches at York University. Along with top Canadian writers Leonard Cohen and Margaret Atwood, he is one of the most interesting and important living contemporary writers.
He began publishing lyric poems in the late 1960's. His work quickly morphed into a unique and complex mesh of poetry and prose, historical fact, photos, interviews, and (often avant-garde, even hallucinatory) images and fiction. He has written books set in places as diverse as the 19th-century Australian Outback, Billy the Kid's American West, the turn-of-the-20th-century jazz world of New Orleans, immigrant workers' communities in Toronto ca. 1930s, World War II Europe and North Africa, contemporary rural Ontario, and contemporary Sri Lanka.
Using his own mesh of genre and approach, he has imagined the 20th century, its roots and trajectories, in a unique, multi-cultural way. He has made three films of his own and recently published a book-length interview with famed Hollywood film editor Edward Murch.
Ondaatje also will visit Prof. Ed Pavlic's seminar, “Pictures Fly Without Target”: the Prose-Poetics of Michael Ondaatje's Writing. His visit marks the third consecutive year an internationally-acclaimed author has visited with English / Africana Studies classes. Previous visitors have included Yusef Komunyakaa and Adrienne Rich.
The College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of New York, announces the election of six juniors and 30 seniors.
They are, juniors: Jennifer R. Andriano, Rashmi Jayadevan, Fatima Mahmood, Karen A. Scott, Mark W. Weston and Marisa S. Zarchy.
Seniors: Meghan F. Bedecs, Laura A. Butterfield, Carrie W. Dancy, Tanya D. Davis, Reena Dhingra, Eric J. Dimise, Robert A. Dunton, Erin Kane, Allison M. Floyd, Marc R. Freiman, Kit Goldstein, Christine M. Healey, Silva Kantareva, Dana B. Kazmerski, Lesley C. Klein, Stephen K. Layton, Heather M. Lockrow, Shira G. Mandel, Santosh J. Mathen, Karyn M. Rautenberg, Jeffrey Roffman, Maximilian Seel, Krishnan Shanmuganandham, Allyson F. Shortle, Michael V. Silvestro, Sarah-Jo Stimpson, Aimee C. Talleur, Alexandra L. Waibel and Thandar Aung Win.
They join members of the senior class, elected last year: Mary Bre Mackenzie, Nikhil Srivastava and Tian Tian.
Kelly Herrington, associate dean of admissions, won the John B. Muir Editor's Award from the National Association of Collegiate Admissions Counselors for his paper, “The Pleasure, Privilege and Agony of Application Reading,” published last summer in the Journal of College Admission. Herrington will be honored at the NACAC general meeting in September. A version of the paper also appeared last year as an op-ed in the Washington Post.
