Accepted Students Day
Alexandra Sussman, an ED student, and her mom Laurie Sussman of Colts Neck, NJ enjoy lunch
More than 400 students and family members attended this week’s Admissions Open House, the first of two this month. The second program is set for Monday, April 19.
Accepted Students Day April 12, 2010
Christina Garbarino talks with Jordan Smith, English professor
It’s a busy time for Admissions, which mailed decision letters to prospective members of the Class of 2014 last month.
The campus will host many visitors in the next several weeks as admitted students decide where they will enroll.
Among other special outreach programs, a guidance counselor tour will be held Tuesday, April 27. Nearly 70 counselors from around the country are expected to attend.
This year, Union received 4,940 applications for this fall’s freshman class, the second most ever.
And speaking of art… If you haven’t had a chance to see the current faculty exhibition at the Mandeville Gallery Nott Memorial, do so before May 9.
“Chris Duncan: Recent Work” features the professor of sculpture’s latest sculpture and works on paper. The playful abstractions have a sense of immediacy, energy and emotion.
Duncan is a man of many talents who’s exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions throughout the Capital-Saratoga Region, the Bruno Marina Gallery in Brooklyn, Nanjing Normal University in China, and at numerous college galleries across the country.
His work also is included in private and public collections including the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art in Utica.
And while you’re at the Nott, don’t miss “Nano Grande,” in the Wikoff Student Gallery through May 2, featuring digital prints made by students using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This exciting collaboration was created by merging courses: Photography II, offered by the Visual Arts Department, and Frontiers of Nanotechnology, a joint offering of Biology, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering.
Metal Shavings from the Wold Building Construiction Process by Web Gordon, Electrical Engineering, and Hillary Zelson, Visual Arts
The classes worked together to arrange each composition using the SEM machine and various samples, everything from clay nanocomposites with embedded quantum dots to bees, electric circuits and metal shavings from the Peter Irving Wold Center construction site.
This project was organized by Palma Catravas, associate professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Kevin Bubriski, visiting professor, Visual Arts, in collaboration with many other Union faculty and staff and the Capital District Microscopy and Microanalysis Society.
It was sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, the Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies, and an Internal Education Fund grant.
Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin will speak Wednesday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
Marlee Matlin
The hearing-impaired Matlin, a leading advocate for the deaf community, will discuss, "Nobody's Perfect: Achieving Inclusion, Diversity and Access." The talk, part of the Presidential Forum on Diversity series, is free and open to the public.
In 1986, when she was 21, Matlin became the youngest winner of the Best Actress Oscar for her leading role in “Children of a Lesser God.” She is one of only four actresses to receive that honor for a film debut.
Matlin has starred in numerous feature films, including “Walker,” “The Player” and “Hear No Evil.” She also has appeared in many television series, including “The West Wing,” “Reasonable Doubts,” Showtime’s “The L Word” and “Dancing with the Stars.”
She recently launched a reality series on YouTube, “The Deaf Family,” which features a California family whose members are all deaf, except for the oldest son, Jared (the show’s narrator), and the youngest, Elijah. She hopes the show will eventually get picked up by the networks.
“Deaf and hard of hearing people make up one of the largest minority groups,” Matlin said in a recent Los Angeles Times interview through her interpreter, Jack Jason, “and yet there has never been a show, a reality documentary series that features what life is like for them.”
A year ago, Matlin, who lost most of her hearing when she was 18-months-old, released her autobiography, “I’ll Scream Later.” Her previous books include a novel, “Deaf Child Crossing,” and the young people's stories “Leading Ladies” and “Nobody's Perfect.”
Matlin lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Kevin Grandalski, and their four children.
A new ranking says Union students are among the happiest on college campuses.
The College came in at No. 98 on a list of the 100 Happiest Colleges by The Daily Beast.
The rankings were created by looking at campus housing, nightlife, graduate indebtedness, average freshman retention rate, campus dining, the number of student clubs and the number of sunny daylight hours.
To read the story, including the complete list, click here.
