Hundreds of students will present research in all forms, from the artistic to the scientific, at the campus-wide Steinmetz Symposium Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2.
With classes cancelled, most sessions will be held Friday.
Among the research topics: The mainstream press in times of foreign conflict (Cara Gallivan ’09), medical memoirs (Randel Bleeker ’09) and snowflake analysis using a scanning electron microscope (Konstantin Avdashenko ’10).
Sixty-five students will take part in the Steinmetz dance concert at the Nott Memorial Friday at 4 p.m. They will perform scenes from the Winter Dance Concert, “Theatre of Worlds: The Voyage,” as well as new student choreography and music. Bhangra Union, the Ballroom Club and the Union College Dance Team also will present.
Student art in a variety of media will be on view in the Burns Arts Atrium Gallery in the Visual Arts Building.
The Becker Career Center will hold an open house 1-4 p.m., and AEPi and Golub House are sponsoring Cinco de Mayo festivities 5:30-8 p.m. at Golub House.
A concert featuring the Union College Choir and the Union College and Community Orchestra, with Victor Klimash conducting, is set for Friday, 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel for student presenters, parents, guests and faculty sponsors.
Steinmetz Symposium coincides with Prize Day, which takes place Saturday, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel, with a reception following on the Reamer Campus Center patio. Students are honored for achievement in academics, research, service, governance and athletics.
Also on Saturday, the Union College Jazz Ensemble will perform 1-2 p.m. in the Fred L. Emerson Foundation Auditorium in the Taylor Music Center.
This is the 19th year for Steinmetz Symposium, named for Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923), who taught electrical engineering and applied physics at Union. Also chief consulting engineer for the General Electric Company, he was widely regarded as America’s leading electrical engineer.
For more information and the full symposium program, visit: http://www.union.edu/Academics/Steinmetz