Posted on May 3, 2007

Through May 5

Arts Atrium Gallery

Visual Arts Building

Steinmetz Student Art Exhibition

 This 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 anddigital photograhy), Chris Duncan (3-D design andsculpture), Andrea Hersh (painting), Ferrnando Orellana (digital art) and Sandy Wimer (drawing and printmaking).

Through May 6

(Closing reception May 3)

Mandeville Gallery

Nott Memorial

Infinite Images: Technologies of Printmaking and Beyond

Works from the Permanent Collection and the Special Collections of Schaffer Library include 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 was curated by Visual Arts Assistant Professor David Ogawa; Rachel Seligman, director, Mandeville Gallery, and curator, Union College Permanent Collection; and Stephanie Berlind ’09; with assistance from Ellen Fladger, head of Special Collections, Schaffer Library.

A closing reception and gallery talk for the exhibition are set for Thursday, May 3, 5-7 p.m., in the Nott Memorial, with Ogawa. On Friday, May 4, at 3:30 p.m., there will be a Steinmetz presentation by Berlind.

Posted on May 3, 2007

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

Friday, May 4 / Campuswide / 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 / 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 / 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Prize Day ceremonies

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

Saturday, May 5 / Campuswide / 17th Annual Charles P. Steinmetz Symposium 

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

Saturday, May 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m. / Hale House Dining Room/ “Empty Bowls” fundraiser to benefit the Northeast Regional Food Bank

Monday, May 7, noon / Union Boathouse, Mohawk River / Men’s and women’s crew vs. Hamilton

Tuesday, May 8, 7 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Retired General Wesley Clark speaks on “Strategic Leadership in the Information Age”

Wednesday, May 9, 6 p.m. / Arts 215 / Feminist Film Series presents “A Map of the World”

Wednesday, May 9, 7 p.m. / Nott Memorial /Novelist Walter Mosley gives a public lecture, “Bearing Witness”; discussion, book signing at 8 p.m.

Thursday, May 10, 4 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Philosophy Speaker Series presents “When Worlds Collide: Mental State Naturalism and Normative Attribution” with Stephen Ross of City       University of New York

Thursday, May 10, 7 p.m. / Richmond Hall Basement Lounge / Resident advisors’ “30 Days of Tolerance” discussion program features Anti-Aging  

Thursday, May 10, 7 p.m. / F. W. Olin Center 115 / Ethics Across the Curriculum speaker: Michael Pinsky, professor of Literature and Popular Culture, University of South Florida, discusses “Great Big Beautiful       Tomorrows: A Century of Theme Park Utopias”

Thursday, May 10, 8 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Chamber Concert Series: Emerson String Quartet

Friday, May 11, noon / Old Chapel / Café Ozone

Friday, May 11, 12:55 p.m. / F. W. Olin Center / Lecture by David      Daegling, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, “Evolutionary Significance of the Human Chin”

Friday, May 11 – Monday, May 14, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Movie: Hannibal Rising

Posted on May 3, 2007

Students will showcase their scholarship and creativity at the 17th Annual Steinmetz Symposium this weekend, Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5.

The all-campus research extravaganza will feature oral and poster presentations, performances, exhibits and more, everything from Stephanie Arango’s “The Impact of Early 21^st Century Financial Scandals on Socially Responsible Investing” to Adam Danaher’s “Pneumatic Anti-Flip Mechanism for An All Terrain Vehicle.” 

Other highlights include an exhibition in the Visual Arts Building’s Burns Atrium Gallery, dance performances in the Nott Memorial, Mandeville Gallery talks, the unveiling of Union’s 100 MPG Challenge Vehicle and a movie premiere of “How Green is My Union? Sustainability at Union College.”

Most sessions will be held Friday, with classes cancelled to allow the entire campus community to attend. The Steinmetz Banquet is set for Friday evening at 6:30 in Upper Class Dining Hall at the Reamer Campus Center.

On Saturday, Prize Day ceremonies are scheduled for 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. There will be a Jazz Ensemble performance 1–2 p.m. in Emerson Auditorium, Taylor Music Center. 

At 5 p.m., the Taylor Center will have its official dedication.

The Union College Orchestra and Choir concert is set for 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

The symposium is named for Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923), the chief consulting engineer of the General Electric Company who was widely regarded as the leading electrical engineer in the United States. At Union, he was professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from 1902 until his death. Last year, more than 350 students participated in the Steinmetz Symposium.

Look for the full program at http://www.union.edu/Steinmetz/, or contact Mary K. Carroll, director of Undergraduate Research at carrollm@union.edu.

Posted on May 3, 2007

Michael Berg, whose son Nick was one of the first foreigners abducted and killed by insurgents in Iraq, will be the featured speaker tonight at 7 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.

Berg will discuss “The Costs of War and How Clean Elections in America Can Help.” He will be joined by Joan Mandle, executive director of Democracy Matters, a grassroots student organization advocating for publicly financed elections.

The event is free and open to the public.

Nick Berg, 26, was a telecommunications contractor when he was detained in Iraq for 13 days in March 2004 by U.S. military and the FBI. After his release, and in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib revelations, Nick was abducted and murdered on May 7, 2004. A video of his decapitation was posted on the Internet and received worldwide attention.

Michael Berg, a retired teacher, has blamed President Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his son’s death. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year in Delaware as the Green Party candidate on an anti-war platform.

Joan Mandle was, from 1990 to 2001, associate professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, where she also directed the Women's Studies Program and founded and supervised Colgate's Center for Women's Studies. Mandle has also taught sociology at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College and Penn State.  In 2001, she left Colgate to become executive director of Democracy Matters.

Mandle recently received the League of Women Voters of Oakland's “Civic Contribution Award” for her campaign finance reform work in the Bay Area and the Sociologists for Women in Society's “Feminist Activism Award” for a lifetime of service and activism.

The talk is sponsored by Campus Action, a student social action group. For the third year, the group has constructed the Iraq War Memorial display, which includes 3,336 stakes along the walkways at the center of campus. The stakes have the name and age of every American soldier that has died in Iraq.  

Posted on May 2, 2007