Posted on May 22, 2008

Dylan poster

Thursday, May 22, 7 p.m. / Old Chapel / 10th Annual Bob Dylan tribute, “The Gospel According to Bob: An Evening of Hootenanny, Harmony and A Cappella”; BBQ and performance by the Celtic rock band, the McKrells, begin at 4 p.m.

Friday, May 23, 1-1:55 p.m. / Steinmetz Hall Room 106 / "Edukated in Sekund Life," ITS-sponsored lunch and talk on this Internet-based 3D virtual world created by Linden Lab; featuring Mathematics Prof. Kelly Black and Kevin Barhydt, ITS

Friday, May 23, 5:30 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Art for Progress; art exhibit and wine tasting

Friday, May 23 – Monday, May 26, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center / Film: “George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead”

Phi Delta Theta brothers Tom Demoya '08, Scott Alfano '08, Allen Piekara '09, Matt Adams '09, Eden Neary '08 and Mike Topka '09 take a demolition break from their annual Car Bash for a cause benefit to raise money to fight ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Saturday, May 24, noon / Reamer lawn / Phi Delta Theta hosts annual Car Bash for ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease

Saturday, May 24, 3 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center / Film: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”

Saturday, May 24, 6 p.m. / College Park Hall, Ballroom / Shakti Spring Show, dinner from Karavalli’s 5 p.m.

Monday, May 26 – Saturday, May 31 / Greek Week

Monday, May 26, noon / Memorial Field House / Junior Jump Start luncheon with prospective students

Monday, May 26, 9 p.m. / Davidson-Fox Quad / Film – “Wet Hot American Summer” with proceeds from popcorn, hotdogs and cheeseburgers to benefit the American Red Cross China Relief Fund

Tuesday, May 27, 5 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Greek Awards Ceremony; reception for faculty, staff and administrators immediately following at Breazzano House. 

Tuesday, May 27 – Saturday, May 31, 8 p.m. / Morton and Helen Yulman Theatre / Play: William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” 

Wednesday, May 28, 12:30 p.m. / Everest Lounge / Ethics luncheon

Thursday, May 29 – Sunday, June 1 / ReUnion weekend

Thursday, May 29, 12:45 p.m. / F.W. Olin Center Room 115 / Biology Department Seminar Series presents Mark Napier M.D., Albany Medical Center, on “Epidemiology and Genetics of Lung Cancer”

Thursday, May 29, 12:45 p.m. / F.W. Olin Center Room 106 / Chemistry Department Seminar Series presents Desiree Plata of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, on “Co-Products of Carbon Nanotube Synthesis: Emerging Contaminants Associated with Nanomaterial Revolution”

Thursday, May 29, 4:30 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Philosophy Speakers Series presents “The Straw and the Camel’s Back: Contextual Solutions to the Paradox of the Heep”

Peter Bedford, new Professor of Religious Studies

Thursday, May 29, 7 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Fred L. Emerson Foundation Auditorium / Installation of Peter Bedford as the John and Jane Wold Professor of Religious Studies and inaugural Wold Lecture on “Religion and Violence,” given by John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University

Smitesh Bakrania '03, aerogels

Friday, May 30, 12:40 p.m. / Science and Engineering Building, Room N304 / Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Smitesh Bakrania ’03, University of Michigan, on “Combustion Synthesis of Tin Dioxide Nanocomposites for Gas Sensing Applications”

Friday, May 30, 6 p.m. / Union College Taiko Ensemble presents “A Celebration of Spring”

Friday, May 30, 8 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Fred L. Emerson Auditorium / Alumni Writer Series presents cartoonist and New Yorker editor John Donohue ’90

Friday, May 30 – Monday, June 2, 8 & 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center / Film: “The Other Boleyn Girl”

Friday, May 30, 8 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Fred L. Emerson Auditorium / John Donohue, cartoonist and New Yorker editor John Donohue ’90

Friday, May 31, 11 a.m. / Wold House / Brunch with John Donohue

Sunday, June 1, 2 p.m. / Morton and Helen Yulman Theatre / Play, William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” 

Sunday, June 1, 3 p.m. / Emerson Foundation Auditorium, Taylor Music Center / Union College Choir

Monday, June 2, 5 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Fred L. Emerson Auditorium / Student recital