“Kara Walker's Performative Turn,” an essay by Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory Lorraine Morales Cox, has been accepted for publication in the spring 2007 issue of Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory (Routledge). Cox's essay focuses on Walker's recent filmic and performance use of shadow puppets for her installation “Song of the South” exhibited in 2005 at the CalArts REDCAT Gallery in Los Angeles.
Read MoreResearch by Cool leads to creation of health care plan
The Mellon College Retirement Project, a research project by Linda Evers Cool, professor of Anthropology, and her husband, Kenneth E. Cool, a former administrator at Vassar College, has led to the creation of Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions, a nonprofit health care plan for higher education institutions. The Cools' conducted their research through mid-2000. The new health plan was featured in an article titled, “For Retirees' Health Care, a Balancing Act,” in the Sept. 29 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Read MoreHoliday roundup: The magic of Chet; giving is good
Christmas with Chet: Union alum Chester A. Arthur continues to inspire. The 2006 White House Christmas ornament honors the administration of the 21st president of the United States, who graduated in the Class of 1848. Check it out at http://www.whitehousehistory.org/01/subs/01_a.html. This news comes via John Morse '95, who works at the White House in the Legislative Review Division, Office of Management and Budget. Morse sent the link to his former professor, William Thomas, of the French Department…
Holiday magic: Would you like to sponsor a needy adult or child for the holidays? Contact Kathy McCann, director of College Relations Data Systems, at mccannk@union.edu. Last year, members of the campus community helped feed and clothe more than 40 people who were referred by Schenectady's Department of Social Services. “I'm hoping we can make the magic happen again,” McCann said. Gifts should be wrapped, tagged and delivered to the Records Office at 17 S. Lane by Friday, Dec. 15…
Give and you shall receive: From now through Tuesday, Nov. 14, donate a non-perishable food item to the College Bookstore's food drive and receive a coupon for 25 percent off your purchase of collegiate merchandise. All contributions support the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York.
Read MoreGideon Hawley nominations sought
Faculty members are asked to help continue an important Union tradition – the Gideon Hawley Teacher Recognition Awards – by encouraging first-year students and sophomores to nominate a secondary school teacher who has made a difference in their lives. The award is named for the 1809 Union graduate who was a pioneer in education and teacher development. Award recipients, selected on the basis of the Union students' essays, will be honored at Founder's Day Feb. 22.
The deadline for nominations is Jan. 19. For details, contact Judy Ludwig at ludwigj@union.edu.
Read MoreStudents present at American Physical Society
Elliot Imler and Christian Shultz, Class of 2008 students who have been conducting research with Professor of Physics Michael F. Vineyard, recently presented posters at the fall meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society (APS) in Nashville, Tenn.
Imler presented “Fiducial Cuts for the CLAS G3 Data Set” and Shultz presented “Momentum Corrections for Charged Particles Photoproduced on Hydrogen and Helium Targets in CLAS.”
Their classmate, Richard Bonventre, who is on a term abroad in Japan, was included in the author list for each poster.
The abstracts were published in the Bulletin of the American Physical Society Vol. 51 No. 6 (2006).
Imler received lodging and travel support from the competitive Conference Experience for Undergraduates (CEU) program of the APS, and Shultz received lodging funds from CEU and travel support from Union's IEF program.
All three students performed research at Union during the summers of 2005 and 2006. In 2005, all were funded through Vineyard's Department of Energy (DOE) grant. In 2006, Bonventre was on a Union College Summer Scholars Fellowship; Imler worked under the DOE grant; and Shultz was funded through a Union Half-Summer Fellowship and the DOE grant.