It's big and bold and uniquely Union. The 17th Annual Steinmetz Symposium on Friday and Saturday, May 4-5, will feature oral and poster presentations, dance and music performances, art exhibits and demonstrations of creative, scientific and scholarly work by hundreds of Union students.
Most sessions will be held next Friday, with classes cancelled to allow students and faculty to attend. Prize Day ceremonies will be held Saturday, May 5.
Steinmetz Symposium is named for the most widely known professor of the Union College faculty, Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923), who served as chief consulting engineer of the General Electric Company and was considered the leading electrical engineer in the United States. He took charge of Union's new Electrical Engineering curriculum, serving as professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from 1902 until his death in 1923.
Among the symposium highlights are a student art exhibition in the Visual Arts Building's Atrium Gallery; dance performances in the Nott Memorial; a movie premiere of “How Green is My Union? Sustainability at Union College”; Mandeville Gallery talks; a banquet in Upper Class Dining Hall; an orchestra and choir concert in Memorial Chapel; and a Jazz Ensemble performance in the Taylor Music Center's Emerson Auditorium.
For more information, visit http://www.union.edu/Steinmetz/, or contact Mary K. Carroll, director of Undergraduate Research and professor of Chemistry, at ext. 6336 or carrollm@union.edu.