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Thursday, Nov. 9, 12:50 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center, Room 410 / Talk, “Dementia: Psychological and Neuropsychological Interventions for Patients and Caregivers” with Assistant Prof. of Psychology Cay Anderson-Hanley

Thursday, Nov. 9, 4 p.m. / Everest Lounge / Religion and Anthropology speaker: Alanna Cooper, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, talks on “Negotiating Religious Authority at the Margins of the Jewish World: A Nail in a Cow's Tongue and Other Religious Quandaries in 19^th Century Bukhara”

Friday, Nov. 10, through Monday, Nov. 13, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Movie: Beerfest

Monday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Presidential Forum on Diversity presents Morris Dees, co-founder, Southern Poverty Law Center, speaking on “Voice of Hope and Tolerance”

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 12:45-1:45 p.m. / Everest Lounge / Open dialogue with faculty and members of Panhellenic Council and Inter Fraternity Council 

Thursday, Nov. 16, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center / U.S. Marine Corps information table

Sunday, Nov. 19, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Concert Series: Pei-Yao Wang, piano and Friends

Sunday, Dec. 3, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Concert Series: Boston Camerata

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Louisa Matthew, professor of Art History, spoke on “Color in Renaissance Venice: Taste, Technology, Commerce and the Uses of Pigments” at Skidmore College as a Mellon Visiting Fellow. Her talk was based on recent research in the State Archives in Venice and her ongoing collaboration with Barbara Berrie, chemist and senior research scientist at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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George Gmelch, the Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology, has edited Baseball Without Borders: The International Pastime. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, the book offers a variety of perspectives on how America's national pastime is going global. It contains essays by journalists, historians, anthropologists and English professors, with introductory and concluding essays by Gmelch.

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Two Union College faculty members, Robert M. Finks and John I. Garver, presented recently at the 118^th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia. Finks, research professor, presented “Are Hypercalcified Demosponges a Key to the End-Permian Extinction?” Geology Department Chair Garver presented two topics: “Reading the Record of Orogenesis Through Detrital Fission-Track Thermochronology” and “Detrital Thermachronology and Double-Dating of Zircon.”

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Philip Kosky, the Distinguished G.E. Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dudley Observatory Deputy Director George Wise, Dean of Engineering Emeritus Robert T. Balmer and Associate Professor of Engineering William D. Keat have written a new textbook, “Exploring Engineering – An Introduction to Engineering and to the Design Process.” It is published by Elsevier Publishing.