Pianist Tim Olsen, associate professor of Music, will lead a quartet of local musicians in "Jazz Vespers" at the First Reformed Church in Schenectady’s Stockade Sunday, April 20 at 5 p.m. Admission is free, but a goodwill offering will be received.
An oboe concerto, “Shakkei,” by the John Howard Payne Professor of Music Hilary Tann, will be performed at the Concert Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, by the China National Symphony Orchestra Sunday, April 20, as part of the 2008 Beijing International Congress on Women in Music. Tann will be in attendance.
A book chapter by Scott D. Kirkton, assistant professor of Biology, was recently published in “Hypoxia and Circulation” from the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology series (Volume 618; 2007). The chapter, “Effects of Insect Body Size on Tracheal Structure and Function,” emerged from an invited symposium talk at the International Hypoxia meeting last February.
Hans-Friedrich Mueller, professor and chair of Classics, was invited to participate in a seminar on Roman religion at the University of Pisa in Italy. He contributed a paper, titled “Aspects of Nocturnal Religion in Ancient Rome,” in which he discussed the extent to which scholars may hope to recover the relationship ancient Roman women strove to maintain with deceased relatives. While in residence in Pisa, he also presented a public lecture on Edward Gibbon’s place in Roman historiography. He returned to the Schenectady by way of Liverpool, England, where he presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association. “The Lex Poetelia Papiria: Same Sex Desire and Debt-Bondage,” explores how ancient Roman attitudes towards sexual morality may have contributed to limiting the rights of creditors to exact labor from debtors in archaic Roman law.
Eric McDowell, director of Sports Information, was invited to speak at the NCAA Gender Equity and Issues Forum, set for Monday, April 28 in Boston. He will be on a panel titled “Media Strategies.” His session and handout is “Equitable Gender Sports Publicity and Promotion.”
Rebecca Koopmann, associate professor of Physics and Astronomy, visited South Plains College in Levelland, Texas earlier this month as a Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturer for the American Astronomical Society. She spoke with students and faculty and gave two public talks about astronomy. “So You Want to be an Astronomer: Adventures in the Life of an Extragalactic Astronomer” described astronomy as a career and emphasized the importance of scientific and technological careers. She spoke on “The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Invisible Universe” to an audience of about 200 at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. The Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program, brings professional astronomers to college campuses to spread excitement about modern astronomy and astrophysics. The program is named in honor of Harlow Shapley (1885-1972), one of the foremost American astronomers of the first half of the 20th century.