Terry Weiner, longtime faculty member, recently was appointed to three-year term as provost of The Sage Colleges in Troy, N.Y. At Union, Weiner, the Chauncey H. Winters Professor of Comparative Social Analysis, has served as special assistant to the president, chair of the departments of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology, acting dean of Arts and Sciences, acting dean of faculty, associate dean of faculty, and chair of the Division of Social Sciences. He retires from Union June 30.
Diane Blake, vice president of Finance and Administration, recently was appointed to the Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers (EACUBO) Board as an at-large member.
Ann Fleming Brown, director of Admissions, recently was quoted in a Times Union (Albany) article about college admissions decisions, competition and selectivity for the class of 2014. While many students who receive rejection letters are shocked and angry, “there is an excellent college for every student,” Fleming said, “and working toward finding a college which is a wonderful match is the goal."
Judith Gardner Ainlay, director of Special Institutional Relations, helped the Elmer Avenue Elementary School in Schenectady celebrate National Reading Across America week and Dr. Seuss’s birthday (March 2, 1904) this week. She read “Green Eggs and Ham” to first through third grade students, bringing with her, courtesy of Dining Services, 300 cookies designed as green eggs.
Rachel Seligman, director and curator, Mandeville Gallery, and curator, Union College Permanent Collection, was a session chair at the recent 98th Annual College Art Association (CAA) conference in Chicago. She led a session titled “Lifelogging: Chronicling the Everyday.” She and her co-chair, Nadine Wasserman, brought together a panel of artists and art historians to discuss the ways that artists use personal data collection to form, inform and inspire their art. The largest international forum for professionals in the visual arts, each year the CAA conference draws more than 4,000 art professionals from throughout the United States and abroad, including art historians, visual artists, students, educators, art museum curators, collectors and art critics.
New and recent chamber orchestra works by composers from the Americas, including compositions by Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, will be featured at the Grammy-nominated North/South Consonance's 30th anniversary gala March 8, 8 p.m. at New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall. Other composers for the free concert are Elizabeth Bell, Edward Green and Stephen Yip. Orchestra founder Max Lifchitz is the conductor for the special event. Distinguished guest artists include clarinetist Arthur Campbell, harpist Megan Levin and pianist Helen Lin. For details, go to http://www.northsouthmusic.org/