Union is reaching out to two schools in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.
The College is offering students and faculty at Dillard University's College of Arts and Sciences a place to work or learn this year. The offer is listed prominently on Dillard's Web site.
Through the Faculty Resources Network of New York University, Union has extended an offer to Dillard and Xavier University of Louisiana to help two faculty members this year with housing, office space and research.
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With their light blue T's, reflective yellow vests, flashlights and two-way radios, the seven members of the Student Safety Patrol are now on duty.
The new service comes in response to student and staff suggestions for increasing security visibility on campus and enhancing relationships between the Office of Campus Safety and the College community.
“The students have agreed to patrol campus as additional eyes and ears, reporting suspicious or unusual behavior and helping out with escort duties as needed,” said Steve Leavitt, dean of students.
Patrol members, supervised by Sergeant Mike McCreary, have taken security officer training to alert them to the safety needs of the campus. They will work in pairs nightly from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m., Monday through Saturday, patrolling residence halls, parking lots and other facilities when the College is in session. While on duty, they will have radio contact with Campus Safety dispatchers. The College continues to maintain a separate escort service.
The students not be involved in enforcing the College's Drug and Alcohol Policy, Leavitt noted.
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The 34th Union College Concert Series, featuring the Emerson String Quartet, Artemis String Quartet, pianists Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman and other world-renowned musicians, will kick off Friday, Sept. 30. All performances are in the acoustically-superb Memorial Chapel.
The series will pay tribute to the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, the 100th anniversary of Shostakovich's birth and the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Schumann, which occur in 2006.
The 14-concert season opens on Friday at 8 p.m. with an all-Schubert program, A Schubert Lieder Abend, by tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake, and concludes May 8 with an all-Mozart program by pianist Mitsuko Uchida.
In November, the prize-winning Belcea String Quartet, a young British group, will perform Schumann's A major quartet, op. 41, No. 3.
Marking Mozart's birthday weekend in January, acclaimed pianist Pei-Yao Wang and Friends will perform three Mozart Concerti arranged by the composer for piano and string quintet, K. 413, 414 and 415.
A perennial favorite, the Emerson String Quartet, will play Shostakovich's final three string quartets, Sunday, April 2 at 2 p.m.
Concert parking is available at nearby campus lots. The Union College trolley will be available to shuttle concert goers from the Nott/Seward lot one hour before the start of the concert and one hour after the end of each concert. The complete schedule is on the web at www.union.edu/ConcertSeries/. Single tickets are available for purchase in advance at the Union College Central Scheduling office.
For tickets phone (518) 388-6080; for mailing list and brochures (518) 388-6131; and for other information please call (518) 372-3651.
Read MoreThe College and faculty have received several grants to support bioengineering, nanotechnology and aerogels.
“Of particular interest are opportunities that allow students to explore the relationships between the liberal arts and technology,” says Douglass Klein, director, Center for Converging Technologies (CT).
The newest grants include:
New York State Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR): This is a partnership between Union; U-Start, the Union-affiliated business incubator; NYSTAR; and the Watervliet Innovation Center (WIC). It will provide approximately $150,000 to the College to support faculty and students who are undertaking research projects in cooperation with companies located at the WIC in areas such as nanotechnology, optical and chemical sensing, and fire prevention and control.
NSF-RUI (Research at Undergraduate Institutions), Aerogel Gas Sensor Platform: Mary K. Carroll, professor of chemistry, and Ann Anderson, associate professor of mechanical engineering, lead a research team that has developed a new rapid supercritical extraction method for fabricating aerogel monoliths. The team will compare their fabricated aerogel platform gas sensors with those fabricated using conventional supercritical extraction methods.
Integrating Micro-Computed Tomography in Undergraduate Bioengineering Courses: This NSF-sponsored grant was awarded to Andy Rapoff, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, to foster interdisciplinary thinking and excite students with the possibilities in bioengineering.
Information about grants related to CT support can be found at www.union.edu/CT/Support.
Read MoreStacie Raucci, assistant professor of classics, and Channette Romero, assistant professor of English, have been named John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professors, a fellowship that supports new and promising faculty members.
Raucci came to Union in 2004. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with a dissertation titled “Gazing Games: Propertius and the Dynamics of Vision.” Her fields include Latin literature of the Augustian Age; gender and sexuality; and culture and society of the late Republic. Her offerings include courses in Greek and Latin language and literature as well as sex and gender in antiquity.
Romero holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her dissertation was titled “Spiritual Resistance: Religion, Race and Nation in Ethnic American Women's Fiction.” Interests include African American literature, ethnic American literature, twentieth century literature, and gender and feminist theory.
The College has recognized 30 MacArthur Assistant Professors since 1982, after receiving a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Last year's recipients were Jennifer Matsue of performing arts and East Asian Studies, and Andrew Morris of history.
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