Rachel Valade '06 will discuss energy efficiency in small buildings. Genevieve Strang '06 will navigate literature and science through “Melville, Romanticism and the Scientific Imagination.” Michael Boyer '06 will display his automated handheld tour guide of the Union campus. Amanda Goodman ‘06 will present “Photogrammetry of Bullfrog Hearts.”

Welcome to the 16th Annual Charles P. Steinmetz Symposium – a campus wide showcase of the creative, research and scholarly work of hundreds of Union undergraduates. Classes are canceled Friday, with events running from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, Steinmetz, Science and Engineering and the F.W. Olin Center.

Also on tap: a dance concert Friday at 12:20 p.m. at the Nott Memorial; a poster session at Hale House Saturday, 9:30-11 a.m.; and Prize Day, Saturday at 11 a.m. in Memorial Chapel, where top students are honored in a variety of majors (reception to follow at Reamer Campus Center Patio).

The symposium is named for one of the College's most noted scholars, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, who taught engineering and physics from 1902 until his death in 1923. Steinmetz tried to instill in his students “the spirit of divine discontent, for without it the world would stand still.” For a complete schedule of events, visit www.union.edu/Steinmetz/.