Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Attention, adult learners: UCALL is calling you.

The Union College Academy for Lifelong Learning begins another stimulating year Oct. 3 with half a dozen five-week courses held during daytime hours. A membership-based program for adults who are committed to learning, UCALL extends the College's tradition of liberal arts and academic excellence. UCALL's fall offerings: 

The Law and Society provides an overview of various areas of the law, featuring prominent legal scholars from the region.

Photography in the Digital World offers a history of photography, hands-on digital work and an opportunity for critiques of participants' work.

400 Years of Opera, taught by Union Professor Emeritus of Economics Joseph Schmee, examines scenes from five operas from different centuries.

Russia: Today and Yesterday, taught by retired GE Physicist Manuel Aven, delves into the history, politics and economy of Russia. 

Walt Whitman – American Poet, looks at Whitman's life and work.

Military Battles with Great and Unexpected Historic Impact examines several influential battles and their unanticipated effects on history. 

Classes, held in Reamer Auditorium, will be held for two hours each, once a week. 

“UCALL  is a wonderful program that offers learning and enrichment for mature adults who want to continue learning with their peers, without the pressures of exams or term papers,” says Director Valerie D'Amario.

For more information and a complete schedule, visit www.union.edu/Academics/UCALL.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Thursday, Oct. 12, is the deadline for proposals for the Internal Education Foundation (both student-initiated research proposals and “educationally innovative projects”), Faculty Research Fund and Humanities Development Fund.

Submit IEF student-initiated research proposals to the director of undergraduate research and educationally innovative proposals to the dean of arts and sciences.

Forms and guidelines for both are available in Science & Engineering, S100, or visit the Web at http: www.union.edu/Academics/AcademicAffairs. Questions concerning student-initiated research should be directed to Mary K. Carroll, director of undergraduate research, at carrollm@union.edu.

The Research and Grants Committee is soliciting proposals for faculty research and scholarship activities. Applications and guidelines are available in the Office of Dean of Arts and Sciences (S&E, S100) or at http://www.union.edu/ Academics/AcademicAffairs.

Or contact David Hayes, interim dean, at hayesd@union.edu.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

George Gmelch's essay, “Barbadian Migrants Abroad and Back Home,” was published in “Returning to the Sources” by the University of the West Indies Press, edited by D. Plaza and F. Henry. The essay focuses on what it means for migrants to come home, both for the individual and the home society. Gmelch is the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Andy Rapoff, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering, recently published a paper, “Orthotropic Index for Bone” in the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. Rapoff and colleagues Neel Bhatavadekar of the University of North Carolina and David Daegling of the University of Florida, recently published “Application of an Image-Based Weighted Measure of Skeletal Bending Stiffness to Great Ape Mandibles” in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Posted on Sep 21, 2006

Bonney MacDonald, associate professor of English, received a fellowship from the Center for Study of California and the West, an organization based at University of Southern California and The Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. She spent August at the Huntington Library researching the American West for a book project on 19th- and 20th-century interpretations of the historian Frederick Jackson Turner.