President Roger H. Hull and Schenectady Mayor Albert Jurczynski will
examine “The Union-Schenectady Relationship: Tomorrow” on Monday, May 3, at 7
p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
The leaders will discuss current and future initiatives aimed at improving the college
and the city.
Their talk will cap a three-part series that began April 21 on the Union-Schenectady
relationship.
Ed Lallier was coordinator of the series, sponsored by Wells House.
Read MoreCopies of the draft of the Middle States Report are
available in the Student Activities office and at the Circulation Desk in
Schaffer Library.
The Middle States Steering Committee invites input.
Comments should be directed to the co-chairs of the
Steering Committee: Dean Christie Sorum in Feigenbaum Hall
(sorumc@union.edu) or to Prof. Alan Taylor in the Mathematics Department
in Bailey Hall (taylora@union.edu).
The College has joined with Proctor's Theater to offer
a limited number of discount tickets for several shows at the theater.
Tickets at 10 to 20 percent discount are available for Smokey
Joe's Café on Feb. 11 ($35.55), Les Miserables on March 30
($44.55) and Ragtime on June 8 ($44.55)
Employees and students may reserve tickets through Human
Resources (ext. 6108) before Sept. 23.
Read MoreThree faculty and 10 undergraduate research students
from chemistry attended or gave presentations at NERM '99, the Northeast
Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
James C. Adrian Jr., assistant professor, presented on
“Titanium Enolate Addition to Aldimines: A Case for Lewis Acid
Activation.” His co-author was Jennifer E. Chick '99.
Julia L. Barkin '00, presented on her work with Lamyaa
Hassib '98, under Adrian: “Beta-Amino Esters Via the Reformatsky
Reaction: Restraining Effects of the Ortho-Methoxyphenyl
Substituent.”
Mary Carroll, associate professor, presented a talk
titled “Investigation of On-line Determination of Ethanol with
Diode-laser-based Detection.” Manisha Tinani '96 was co-author.
Michael Hagerman, assistant professor, gave a talk on
“Controlling the Inner Architecture of Polymer-Clay
Nanocomposites” in the Nanoparticles symposium.
Also, Chemistry Club officers Jason P. Shames '01, and
Julia L. Barkin '00 presented an invited talk on the “Activities
and Perspectives of the Union College Chemistry Club.” Club advisors
Carroll and Hagerman were co-authors.
Read MoreThe College welcomes 20 new faculty members this fall.
Continued from last issue, they are:
Megan Ferry, assistant
professor of Chinese, holds a Ph.D. from Washington University in St.
Louis. She has taught at WU, Emory University and the University of
Missouri at St. Louis.
Andrea Foroughi, assistant
professor of history, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota with
a dissertation that used a case study of Nininger, Minn., from 1847 to
1870 to analyze the gendered components of frontier community evolution.
John Fox, visiting professor
of anthropology, was a research associate in the American section of the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He was
chair of anthropology at Baylor University, where he taught for 20 years.
He earned his Ph.D. at the University at Albany.
Yana Hashamova, visiting
assistant professor of Russian, holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her interests include 20th century European
literature, film and painting, gender studies and postmodern theory.
Robert Hislope, assistant
professor of political science, earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University
with a dissertation titled “Nationalism, Ethnic Politics and
Democratic Consolidation: A Comparative Study of Croatia, Serbia and
Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Alexander Hollman, visiting
assistant professor of classics, has been teaching at Harvard University,
where he earned his Ph.D. His interests include Greek literature (archaic
and classical) Greek prose (historiographic and ethnographic) and Greek
religion and magic.
David Ogawa, visiting
assistant professor of visual arts, earned a Ph.D. from Brown University
with a dissertation on “Conditions of Beholding: Images of Femininity
in the Work of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.” He has also held
teaching posts at Marist College, Assumption College, Worcester Art
Museum, Brown University, and Rhode Island School of Design.
Thomas Rieg, visiting
assistant professor of psychology, earned a Ph.D. from the University of
Rhode Island. His dissertation was titled “Differential Reinforcement
of Other Behavior: Response-Reinforcement Contingency and
Contiguity.” He previously held teaching posts at Winona (Minn.)
State University, Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va., and
Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Read MoreAs the video says, “Discover the real you at
Union.”
You can catch the warm and fuzzies for Old Union without
leaving your computer.
The new College admissions video is on the Web at
www.union.edu/Admissions/Video.html
Admissions representatives have been showing it to
students on the road. Now, it can be viewed on streaming video.
“Hey, I'd go there,” said one senior after
viewing it.
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