The College has received grant money to fund several students in summer internships at non-profit organizations. Students can learn more about the program at an informationsession Friday, Feb. 16, 3 p.m. at the Becker Career Center.
“We ask faculty and staff to encourage students to start their search early and not wait until the deadline (March 16, 5 p.m.) to submit their application,” says Becker Career Education Associate Director Rochelle Caruso.
Students must secure their own internship – the Career Center can help – and then apply for funding. For more information and application materials, visit http:www.union.edu/Career/Students/Internships/ips/index.php.
Darcia Datshkovsky '10 will direct and Kaitlin Canty '08 will produce Eve Ensler's “The Vagina Monologues” at Old Chapel Thursday, Feb. 15, and Friday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 17, 2 p.m.
The entire performance is run and supported by students. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door.
“Last year, we sold out and raised more than $2,000,” said Canty. Of that, 90 percent went to Schenectady YWCA for programs to stop domestic violence and its battered women's shelter; 10 percent went to the V-Day Spotlight Campaign. The YWCA is the primary beneficiary again this year. More than 1,100 V-Day events will be held this year on college and university campuses around the world to raise money and awareness to stop violence against women and girls.
The first concert in the Taylor Music Center's Emerson Hall will feature the Musicians of Ma'alwyck, Thursday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m., in a performance of chamber music rarities, including the Berwald Septet for strings and winds.
“The inaugural concert, ‘Music for Seven,' is an ideal mix of adventuresome but audience-friendly programming with an additional educational component,” says Professor of Music Hilary Tann. “The beautiful and intimate concert/rehearsal space is ideal for these purposes.”
Musicians of Ma'alwyck is a flexible-size chamber music ensemble in residence at the Schuyler Mansion, a New York State Historic Site, and at Schenectady County Community College. Directed by violinist Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, it performs throughout the Capital Region and Upstate New York.
The Union concert repertory includes works for seven players in a variety of configurations by Berwald, Mozart, Richard Strauss, Aaron Jay Kernis and Carl Nielsen. The program's centerpiece is the “1828 Septet” of Swedish composer and orthopedic surgeon Berwald. Scored for clarinet, bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, violoncello and bass, “the almost forgotten masterpiece mimics the style of Schubert, while adding a satisfying personal (and perhaps Scandinavian) touch to the form,” Tann notes.
Another highlight, Tann says, “is the brilliant reduction of the Strauss tone poem, ‘Till Eulenspiegel,' for five instruments.” The concert will open with the jazzy “Mozart en Route or a Little Traveling Music” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kernis, inspired by a letter Wolfgang wrote to his father, Leopold, describing a particularly rough carriage ride.
Joining the ensemble for the Emerson Hall concert are clarinetist Michael Cirigliano, bassoonist Stephen Walt, hornist Victor Sungarian and bassist Bradley Aikman.
The concert is free to the Union community. For all others, tickets are $18 (adults), $12 (seniors) and $6 (non-Union students). Reservations are strongly recommended. For more information, visit http://www.musiciansofmaalwyck.org/home.html or contact Tann at tannh@union.edu or ext. 6566.
Thanks to an IEF grant, four of the Musicians of Ma'alwyck will return to campus March 9 to record student compositions for Tann's class.
Union President Stephen C. Ainlay addresses the crowd at the Schenectady Chamber Business @ Breakfast event Feb. 7, 2007 at College Park Hall.
— President Stephen C. Ainlay addressed nearly 100 business and local leaders at the Business @ Breakfast meeting held on campus this week by the Chamber of Schenectady County. Among the topics he discussed were alliances with local buisinesses, the College-city partnership and Union's commitment to helping the region.
— As North American Section Head of the International Plutarch Society, Hans-Friedrich Mueller, professor and chair of Classics and interim chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, organized a panel at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego on the theme of reading Roman history through the lens of Greek history (Plutarch's usual method). The panel, “Roma Chaeroneana: Plutarch's Reception of Rome,” included David Baum, senior lecturer in the Department of History, who read a paper titled, “Plutarch's Caesar in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Poggio and Guarino's Readings of the Vita Caesaris.” Also participating were scholars from the University of Oxford, England, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and the University of Perugia, Italy.
— “The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity.” (Columbia University Press, 2006), by Raymond Martin, chair and professor of Philosophy, and John Barresi, is being translated into Korean, to be republished later this year by Younglim Cardinal, Inc.
—Loren Rucinski, director of Facilities and Planning, graduated from the Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA) Facilities Management Institute in Orlando, Fla., in January. The Institute is offered twice a year, and the curriculum consists of four core areas: general administration; maintenance and operations; energy and utilities; and planning, design and construction. Students must complete all four, week-long core tracks to graduate from the program. Paul Matarazzo, capital projects administrator, and Richard Patierne, manager of building services, completed their second core track at the institute in January.
—Harry Marten, the Edward E.Hale, Jr., Professor of English and chair of the English Department, has published a memoir, But That Didn't Happen To You: Recollections and Inventions (XOXOX Press). Set in New York City neighborhoods of 50-100 years ago, the book offers reflections on the nature of memory, the immigrant experience, storytelling, old age and family relationships. Marten's “Shadowlands,” a portrait of dementia in old age, appeared in the August 2006 issue of the on-line literary journal Inertia Magazine (www.inertiamagazine.com).
— Pilar Moyano, professor of Spanish, has published “Mujer, religión y mito en la obra del pintor Julio Romero de Torres,” in Jaén: Cruce de caminos, encuentro de culturas (Juan Fernández Jiménez, Jesús López Peláez and Encarnación Medina Arjona, editors; Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 2006).
— Robert Olberg, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, will deliver the DuPont Lecture at the University of Arizona's Neurobiology Department in March. The title of the lecture is, “The Elegant Precision of Dragonfly Prey Interception: From Neurons to Behavior.”
— Two former faculty members, Frank Gado and Ed Pavlic, have literary news to share. Gado, who taught American Literature, recently published a book on the life and work of American poet William Cullen Bryant. William Cullen Bryant: An American Voice grew out of an idea from former Union student Dan Wells. Former English Professor Pavlic, associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Center at University of Georgia, has authored Labors Lost Left Unfinished, a collection of poems.
New York-based poet and critic Diane Mehta '88 comes to campus Monday, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. as part of the English Department's year-long program, “Writers Return: Alumni Writer Series.”
Her talk will be held in Arts 215, and a reception will follow at Wold House.
Mehta's work has been published in such noted journals as Salamander, The Formalist, The Columbia Review, Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review and The Antioch Review. Her book, How to Write Poetry, was published last year by Barnes & Noble.
She is a travel writer for the Fodor's series, for which she recently wrote about hang gliding on the sand dunes of North Carolina, and she freelances for New York magazine and other publications.
Mehta's talk is free and open to the public. Sponsors include the English Department, President's Office, Alumni Relations and Wold House.
