Gary Heenan has resigned as assistant coach of the Union men's hockey team effective yesterday to return as head coach at Utica College.
Gary began his duties as assistant coach at Union College at the beginning of this week and he decided that Union was not the right fit. Head coach Nate Leaman said he will resume the search for his assistant coach immediately. “We have a strong pool of candidates, and I'm confident that we'll identify an individual that will assist in achieving the overall goals of the Department, the College, and the Program.”
Union College's Mandeville Gallery will feature the exhibition “Inside/Outside: Paintings and Drawings by Bruce McColl and Don Resnick.”Inside/Outside runs from July 21 through September 25 at the Mandeville Gallery in Union College's Nott Memorial.
The gallery hours are daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The artists' reception, with a question and answer format, will be Thursday, September 22, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Nott Memorial.
“We like the idea of pairing two artists whose styles on the surface seem to be quite different, but their approaches to art, and their use of color especially, is quite similar” said Rachel Seligman, director of the Mandeville Gallery.
Resnick's work deals with themes of nature, the outdoors and the observable world, while McColl focuses on interiors and created worlds.
McColl's Daffodil Hill
“The subject matter and inspiration for my paintings is the intense experience of the particular light and space of a place, at a unique moment,” said Don Resnick. “Painting is my way of sharing what I have seen and experienced.”
McColl explores the subject of domestic and personal interiority: working from sources like observation, drawings, and memory. The resulting paintings represent his experience of time, place, and people rendered in abstract, and largely, poetical terms.
For the third summer running, a group of high school girls will spend two weeks at Union College learning about careers in engineering through class work and hands-on projects. The program, called EDGE (Educating Girls as Engineers) Workshop, which runs from July 17-29, is designed to encourage academically talented young women to pursue engineering study at Union or elsewhere.
“This is an intense yet fun living and learning experience to expand the thinking of some very smart young women and let them see a side of engineering they might not have considered,” said Coordinator Karen Williams, who is a professor of Biology.
The program involves the re-engineering of toys and electronic devices to be used by disabled children. At the start of the camp, the girls visit patients at Schenectady's Northwoods at Hilltop brain injury rehabilitation center, where they meet with patients and begin to re-design everything from stuffed animals to TV remotes.
“We engage the students immediately since girls of this age often have an affinity to children,” Williams said. “This program shows them that engineering is not all about machines. There is a very human aspect to some engineering-related careers.”
This year, 21 juniors and seniors from across the country were chosen through a rigorous application process, including an essay, transcript and letters of recommendation. Students are coming from this region, downstate, and New Jersey, and from as far away as Minnesota and Washington.
Although for the past several years, many educational institutions have focused on increasing the numbers of women in science and engineering, there is still a gap between the sexes, Williams said. “Engineering is a logical choice for many highly motivated young women. We need to open their minds to this,” she said.
Among the subject areas they will study are bioengineering, robotics, microprocessors and circuits, communications, and laboratory-type work called design studio. The final project will involve demonstration of the re-engineered toys and posters depicting the project work.
Union's Dean of Engineering and Computer Science, Cherrice Traver, and Maria Klawe, Princeton's dean of engineering will speak to the students at a luncheon on Friday, July 29 at Orange House.
The program will include both study and recreation, including a movie night, trips to Albany and Saratoga, and dinner with women engineers. Admissions staff will give an overview of the application process and financial aid.
The EDGE Workshop is supported through a grant from Northrop Grumman Corp. Kathy Sauers, secretary of the Northrop Grumman Foundation, will attend the poster session and a farewell banquet and graduation on July 29.
Union College received a set of donations that should help some big-ticketed projects get off the ground.
The largest of the two is a $2 million anonymous gift to convert part of the nearly century-old Alumni Gym into a fitness center, to be re-opened in January.
James W. Taylor, a 1966 alumnus, and his brother, John, who graduated from Union in 1974, contributed $1.5 million for a new $4 million music building.
The Taylors are top executives at the Taylor Made Group, a Gloversville maker of boating products. The building will include a music library, recital hall and music technology studio.
The donations are part of Union's $200 million “You Are Union” campaign, which was announced last October. So far, donors have given $90 million.
Businessman James Taylor and his brother John Taylor have donated $1.5 million to Union College as part of the college's $200 million “You Are Union” fund-raising campaign.
The Taylor brothers are both Union graduates, as was their father, the late Willard Taylor. The Taylors operate the Taylor Made Group, a manufacturer and supplier of boat products.
The Taylors' donation is part of $4 million Union is using to renovate and expand a music library and recital hall on the Schenectady campus.
To date, Union has raised about $90 million of the $200 million goal for the “You Are Union” campaign. The money will be used for new or renovated buildings on campus and to provide students with new facilities and educational opportunities.
