Assistant Professor Brad Hays of Political Science was a recent guest on "Vox Pop" on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio. Northeast Public Radio is a member of National Public Radio serving parts of seven northeastern states. These include New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
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Assistant Psychology Professor Christopher Chabris recently appeared on NBC's "Today" show. Chabris and Daniel J. Simons, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois, discussed their new book, “The Invisible Gorilla, And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us.”
Published by Crown, the book tackles “six everyday illusions that profoundly influence our lives,” the authors write: “the illusions of attention, memory, confidence, knowledge, cause, and potential.”
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The pair also recently appeared on National Public Radio's "Science Friday."
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The International Festival of Chamber Music kicks off its 39th season Saturday, Oct. 9, with a performance by violinist Pamela Frank and friends. This is the first in a series of 14 concerts, featuring returning favorites like cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han in their 19th Schenectady recital, and Emerson String Quartet in its 28th appearance.
New to the Series this year are several rising stars. In January, pianist Nareh Arghamanyan, winner of the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition and the youngest student admitted to Vienna’s Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, will be featured. Ray Chen, winner of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition and one of the most compelling young violinists today, will close out the season on April 27.
For subscriptions and ticket information, call 388-6080. A complete schedule of concerts, all held in Memorial Chapel, is available here.
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Gospel singer Jacqueline Hill will present “Gospel Old and New” on Friday, Oct. 1, 1:50-2:55 p.m. in Emerson Auditorium in the Taylor Music Center. It is the first of two fall concerts scheduled in conjunction with associate professor Tim Olsen’s “Music of Black America” course.
Hill has ministered in song since she was a child growing up in a small Presbyterian church in Duanesburg, N.Y. She has performed Negro spirituals, and traditional, contemporary and inspirational music in upstate New York and New England. An associate minister of Mt. Olivet Missionary Baptist Church in Schenectady, Hill is affiliated with Franklin Graham Ministries' “Samaritan's Purse” as a disaster relief missionary.
Jazz/pop vocalist Georgia Jones will perform “Motown and Beyond” Friday, Oct. 29, also in Emerson Auditorium. Both artists will be accompanied on piano by Olsen, and both concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Olsen at ext. 6563; olsent@union.edu.
Read MoreWonder what Union’s current Minerva Fellows are up to? Find out by reading – and responding to – their blogs.
“The Fellows love to hear from us on campus,” said Tom McEvoy, director of Minerva Programs. “Each Fellow has a blog, and all blogs allow you to post comments.”
Under the popular Minerva Fellows Program, now in its third year, eight members of the class of 2010 are working independently or with non-government organizations in various countries abroad. They help provide entrepreneurial solutions to social, economic and humanitarian hardships faced by local peoples. They’ll return to Union in the spring to share their experiences with the campus community.
The Fellows, their organizations and their blog links are:
Rachael Carson: Friends of Hue, Vietnam, http://rcarson-minerva.tumblr.com/
Allison Cuozzo: Yanapuma, Ecuador, http://allie-minerva.tumblr.com/
Jeremy Fritzhand: Block printing guild, India, http://www.wechangetheworldnow.com/
Elliot Harmon: Engeye, Uganda, http://muse.union.edu/harmone/
Nikhil Kothari: Yanapuma, Ecuador, http://nikhil-ecuador.tumblr.com/
Kate Murphy: The Global Child, Cambodia, http://minervafellowsmurphy.tumblr.com/
Elizabeth Osborne: The Global Child, Cambodia, http://elizabethosborne.tumblr.com/
Sarah Yergeau: Engeye in Uganda, http://sarah-engeye.tumblr.com/
Read MoreWhat’s going on at Union? Find out at calendar.union.edu.
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