Friday, June 5, 5 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Emerson Auditorium / Senior recital: Alex Schlosberg
Sunday, June 7, 5 p.m. / Taylor Music center, Emerson Auditorium / Senior recital: Adrienne Hart, soprano, with appearance by Alex Schlosberg, tenor
Sunday, June 14, 10 a.m. / Roger Hull Plaza / Commencement 2009
Friday, June 19, 5-9 p.m. / Art Night Schenectady / Mandeville Gallery and various downtown sites
Read MoreEight members of the Class of 2009 will head to China, Uruguay and other parts of the world in July as part of the College’s second group of Minerva Fellows.
Like their predecessors, the eight will spend nine months paired with a social organization or community leaders to help the poor in developing countries. The group will return to Union next April, where they will share their experiences with the campus community through a month-long series of forums.
The first class of Minerva Fellows recently returned to campus for a series of presentations highlighting the 11 months they spent in Southern Uganda, Cambodia, India, South Africa or Southern Malawi. To read more about their experiences, click here.
"This program exceeded our expectations in year one and we are looking forward to the second year," said Tom McEvoy, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Minerva Progams. "One of the huge bonuses of the program is having the Fellows return to Union for a month of engagement with the campus. Besides many individual conversations with other students, collectively the returning Fellows participated in well over a hundred classes and programs on campus."
The Minerva Fellows is a scholarship program designed to instill in new graduates an entrepreneurial approach to social problems and a lasting commitment to the poor.
The latest Fellows and where they are headed:
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Monica Rowett and Tom Perry
Organization: Engeye
Location: Southern Uganda
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Lyndsay Wehrum and Nate Saslow
Organization: The Global Child
Location: Seim Reap, Cambodia
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Andrew Scaplen
Organization: One Laptop per Child
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Jennifer Mao-Jones
Location: Shanxi Province, China. Mao-Jones will work with community leaders to help them market their culture and history to tourists.
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Ned Lincoln
Location: Cambodia, where he will start a moto bike repair shop.
Mike Eisenman
Location: Capetown, South Africa. Assignment to be determined.
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Through June 13
Mandeville Gallery
Nott Memorial
2009 Senior Invitational
Small group show of work by graduating artists Justin Blau, Michael Bono, Ian Brennan, Katherine Cissel, Megan Chiriani, Kelly Craparotta, Catherine Davis, Eleanor Hazlett, Tobias Leeger, Alexandra Lindsay, Brandon McArdle, Sarah Mueller, Emmaline Payette, Sarah Scott and Megan Sesil; closing reception and awards set for Saturday, June 13
Through June 14
Burns Arts Atrium
Visual Arts Building
Senior Shows
Through June 7: Alexandra Lindsey, Patrick Wilson
June 8-14: Megan Sesil, Katherine Cissel
Through July 17
Schaffer Library
LOOK!: Seeing the Stories in Schaffer Library’s Graphic Novels Collection
This new exhibit series is an investigation into the distinctive ways in which graphic novelists/artists construct a narrative. The first installment focuses on the use of color as a storytelling device and showcases sample images from graphic novels in Schaffer Library’s collections.
Through September 2009
Schaffer Library Atrium
Union Notables
A rotating show of extraordinary people from the College; features U.S. President Chester Alan Arthur, Class of 1848; hospice leader and advocate Philip DiSorbo, Class of 1971; and Robert Holland Jr., Class of 1962, who has made valuable contributions to sustainability in businesses.
Grant Hall
Global Visions Gallery
"Down at Albion; Images of England"
This new exhibit features the work of Union student James Morton '10, who studied abroad and photographed widely in York, England last year. Morton's photographs display a grasp of light and composition and capture England in saturated colors.
President Stephen C. Ainlay recently received the Sphinx award from the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for his contributions to the Union community. He received the award at the 19th Annual Black and Gold Ball in College Park Hall. The award was presented by Muhammad Djata ’09, president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
Brad Bruno, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. This national award is based on contributions to teaching and curriculum development, research, leadership in student activities and participation in engineering society activities. He received the award in a ceremony at the SAE World Congress in Detroit, which included a VIP tour of the Ford R&D center and an opportunity to drive a fuel cell vehicle. Bruno is an advisor to the College’s Baja team, which recently competed in the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Baja Competition at Oregon State University (see story, this issue).
An article by Rebecca Surman, associate professor of Physics, was recently published in the April issue of the journal Physical Review C. The article, “Neutron capture rates near A=130 that effect a global change to the r-process abundance distribution,” was co-authored with J. Beun and G.C. McLaughlin of North Carolina State University and W.R. Hix of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Surman gave invited seminars on her work at TRIUMF National Laboratory in Vancouver and at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. This week, she also presented an invited talk on her work at the national nuclear structure conference, “Collective Motions in Nuclei under Extreme Conditions (COMEX 3),” in Mackinac Island, Mich.
An article about Chris Duncan, sculptor and professor of visual arts, appeared in the Sunday Gazette: Q & A: Chris Duncan says materials reveal the ultimate sculpture
David Brown ’10 was awarded a competitive NASA-funded summer internship position at the Lockheed Martin Systems Integration facility in Owego, N.Y. from a pool of applicants from New York Space Grant schools. The internship is associated with Project Blue Horizon, a Lockheed Martin/Cornell University near-space flight program that carries high technology payloads to the edge of space at altitudes of 60,000-100,000 feet+. Under the leadership of Lockheed Martin engineers, Brown will contribute to mission planning and payload definition for future Project Blue Horizon flights that will occur in the spring of 2010-2011.
The Kenney Community Center has elected its first Electoral Board of the inaugural Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter at Union. The board includes: President Cybil Tribie ’11, Vice Presidents Reshad Muhmad ’11 and Jordana Kozupsky ’12; Secretary Nathalie Marte ’12; Public Relations/Communications chair Ellen Blanchard ’12 and Treasurer Erin Osgood ’12. Chapter members are Alecia Pickett ’11, Andrea Meyers ’11, Catherine Kennedy ’12 Sarah Gagnon ’12 and Katherine Hughes ’12. Kenney Community Outreach Specialist Santos Avila ’08 is the group’s advisor.
Awards for the 2009 Senior Invitational Exhibition have been announced. The Union College Permanent Collection Purchase Prize went to Ian Brennan for “Eyes.” The Judith Gardner Ainlay Prize was awarded to Michael Bono for “Jon with the Wrench in the Billiard Room.” Curator’s Choice Awards went to Eleanor Hazlett for “The Forks” and Tobias Leeger for “Morning Sport by the Ganges River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.” Two students, Megan Sisel (“The Tulip”) and Alexandra Lindsay (“Brak, Zama, and Morta”) received Honorable Mentions.
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