Posted on Apr 26, 2007

Noted film critic and author Molly Haskell will present a guest lecture Wednesday, May 2 at 6 p.m. in Arts 215, sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Sadock Women in the Arts Grant as part of Union’s feminist film series.

Haskell has written for The Village Voice, New York Magazine, Vogue, The New York Times, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and other publications. She is the author of three books, including the influential "From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies" (1974; revised and reissued in 1987); a memoir, "Love and Other Infectious Diseases" (1990); and a collection of essays and interviews, "Holding My Own in No Man’s Land: Women and Men and Films and Feminists" (1997).

She teaches in the graduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College.

Posted on Apr 26, 2007

Through May 2

Wikoff Gallery

Nott Memorial

Wandering the Souk:

Marketplaces and Peoples

of Israel and Turkey

Student show by Maureen Hsia ’07

This show features 16 photos taken by Hsia, a History major from Shanghai who traveled to Turkey and Israel last winter.

Through May 5

Burns Arts Atrium Gallery

Visual Arts Building

Steinmetz Student Art Exhibition

This new show includes works from classes in digital art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Faculty members who sponsored the students’ works are Martin Benjamin (photography and digital photography), Chris Duncan (3-D design and sculpture), Andrea Hersh (painting), Ferrnando Orellana (digital art) and Sandy Wimer (drawing and printmaking).

Through May 6

Mandeville Gallery

Nott Memorial

Infinite Images: Technologies of Printmaking and Beyond

This exhibition features works from the Permanent Collection and the Special Collections of Schaffer Library.

Included are prints by Albers, Audubon, Blake, Benton, Bittleman, Corot, Hatke, Hockney, Krasner, Millet, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Ruscha, Tiepolo and Wimer; and photographs by Benjamin, Doisneau, Erwitt and Stillman. The show is a collaboration among the Gallery, Permanent Collection, Visual Arts Department and Special Collections.

A reception and gallery talk are set for May 3, 5 p.m., with Prof. David Ogawa; and a gallery talk with Stephanie Berlind ’09 is slated for May 4, 3:30 p.m. as part of her Steinmetz Symposium presentation.

Posted on Apr 26, 2007

Thursday, April 26, 7:30 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / “Catwalk for a Cause”

Friday, April 27, noon / Old Chapel / Café Ozone

Friday, April 27, 3 p.m. / Alexander Field / Women’s softball v. Rensselaer

Friday, April 27, 5 p.m. / Golub / Classics Conference luncheon

Friday, April 27 – April 30, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center / Movie: “Alpha Dog”

Friday, April 27, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. / Various campus venues /Conference: “Recreating the Classics: Hollywood and Ancient Empires”  

Friday, April 27, 8 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Annual Thruway Concert featuring Union’s a cappella groups and other local performers; sponsored by U-programs, the Garnet Minstrels and Dutch Pipers.

Saturday, April 28, 8:30 a.m. / Memorial Fieldhouse / Rube Goldberg Engineering Competition

Saturday, April 28, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.  / Various venues / Conference: “Recreating the Classics: Hollywood and Ancient Empires”

Saturday, April 28, 1 p.m. / Frank Bailey Field / Union Invitational: Men’s and women’s outdoor track

Saturday, April 28, 6 p.m. / College Park Hall Ballroom / Second Annual Domestic Violence and Rape Awareness Banquet

Saturday, April 28, 8 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Chamber Concert Series presents ECCO string ensemble

Sunday, April 29, 3 p.m. / Alexander Field / Women’s softball vs. St. Lawrence

Monday, April 30, 8 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Emerson Auditorium / Concert: Chris Rogers Quintet

Tuesday, May 1, 5 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / “The Final Solution” movie screening; reception at Blue House at 8 p.m.

Wednesday, May 2, 1 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / UCALL lecture, “Great Gardens of the World,” with noted landscape designer, author and Union parent Julie Moir Messervy

Wednesday, May 2, 6 p.m. / Arts 215 / Women’s and Gender Studies lecture: Molly Haskell, author and film critic; reception to follow 

Thursday, May 3, 5 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Reception and Mandeville Gallery talk by Prof. David Ogawa in connection with “Infinite Images: Technologies of Printmaking and Beyond”

Friday, May 4 – Saturday, May 5 / Campus-wide / 17th Annual Charles P. Steinmetz Symposium

Friday, May 4 – Sunday, May 6 / Spring Family Weekend

Friday, May 4, noon / Old Chapel / Café Ozone

Friday, May 4, 3:30 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Mandeville Gallery talk with Stephanie Berlind ’09

Friday, May 4 – Monday, May 7, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Movie: Ghost Rider

Saturday, May 5, 5 p.m. / Taylor Music Building / Dedication

Saturday, May. 5, noon / Central Park, Schenectady / Men’s baseball vs. Skidmore

Posted on Apr 26, 2007

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.

Posted on Apr 26, 2007

Starting in the fall, the Department of Political Science will host the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics, which is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society.

“We’re very excited about this development. The journal publishes top undergraduate political science research from students across the nation,” said Zoe Oxley, associate professor of Political Science. “Union’s tradition of undergraduate research was one of the key reasons why our proposal to host the journal was accepted.”

The journal’s editorial board will consist of Pi Sigma Alpha students at Union, who will be involved in reviewing manuscripts, working with accepted authors to make revisions and prepare their manuscripts for publication.

“These students will hone and gain valuable critical thinking, writing and research skills through their participation,” Oxley said.