Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, was composer-in-residence with the Taos Chamber Music Group earlier this month. Catlin Legere ’04 was also on the program as a photographer whose images accompanied two pieces.
Three Union students recently presented papers at the third annual Parilia, an undergraduate research conference in Classics. Inaugurated at Union in 2006 under the Mellon Consortium grant, the event brings together faculty and students in Classics from Colgate University, Hamilton and Skidmore colleges, and Union. This year’s conference was held at Skidmore. The students and their works are: Jennifer Hough, double major, Classics and Math, “Did the Greeks Invent Calculus?”; Shannon Davi, double major, Classics and Japanese, “Tattooing Human Nature: A Cross-Cultural Study of Ancient and East Asian Tattooing”; and Claire Hendry, double major, Classics and Biology, “Seeing Barbarian Warriors Through Roman Eyes.”
Lori Marso, professor of Political Science and director of Women's and Gender Studies, recently received the 2008 Betty Nesvold Women and Politics Award by the Western Political Science Association for her paper, “Feminism's Quest for Common Desires.” She also has been invited to present this work at a conference on “Women's Choices and the Future of Feminism” at the University of Colorado at Boulder May 2-3.