Posted on Jun 6, 2003

The annual engineering division picnic on Friday afternoon
will feature all the usual picnic fare, but also something new: art.

Think of it as a potluck picnic. The engineers bring the
food. The artists bring the art.

Bob Balmer, dean of engineering, expects about 200 students for
what he calls a first-of-its-kind event.

“I happened to be over in the arts building admiring all the
wonderful work, noticing that some of it looks so 'engineer-ish' and I thought,
'Wouldn't it be great to bring some of that over to our building,'” he said.

So, Balmer coordinated the event with Anthony Cafritz of
visual arts (with help from visiting artists Marc Barreda and Tom Roberts).

More than 200 are expected for the picnic/art show on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., Balmer said.

About 30 pieces – from sculptures to wall paintings ­­– will
be placed throughout Steinmetz and the courtyard between Bailey and Steinmetz.

And some of the pieces will stay, said Balmer. “We have such
a sterile building here. We thought it would be great to add some art by our
students.”

Posted on Jun 6, 2003

Residential
Life, Campus Protestant Ministry and Facilities Services have organized an
end-of-year program that will allow students to donate everything from
furniture to food to be used by clients of Bethesda House and Home Furnishings.

“Got
things you'd rather not take home? Don't just leave them in your room. Donate
them to be put to good use,” read a recent letter to students.

Items
that can be donated include furniture, carpets, clothes, linens, electronics,
kitchen utensils and supplies, and prepackaged/unopened food.

Drop
points are as follows:

• Fox — Central Lounge

• Davidson — Central Lounge

• North — First-floor Lounge

• Richmond
  — Basement Lounge

• West — Staff Office, 1st floor

• Webster — Basement Lounge

• College Park,
  Wade Lupe, Greeks, Themes — bring small items to one of the residence hall
  drop-points.

Larger
items may be marked with tags available at ResLife.

Posted on Jun 6, 2003

Michael F. Vineyard, Frank and Marie Louise
Bailey Professor of Physics, made the College an institutional member of the
CLAS Collaboration at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The
CLAS is a large particle spectrometer used to investigate the quark-gluon structure of matter with the 6-GeV electron
accelerator at Jefferson Lab. It is operated by an international collaboration
of about 35 institutions. Vineyard, a long-time member of the CLAS
Collaboration, published four papers this year in Physical Review and Nuclear
Instruments and Methods. For more information see: http://www1.union.edu/~vineyarm/research/research.html.

Posted on Jun 6, 2003

Hilary Tann, professor of music, had her composition “The Walls of
Morlais Castle” (for flute, viola, cello) performed in New
York City's Merkin Hall in a debut concert by Eight
Strings and a Whistle. Supported in part by a grant from the Humanities
Development Fund, her piano trio, “Nothing Forgotten,” is available at Tower
Records and Amazon.com on North/South Recordings R 1027 (“Millennium
Overture”). Her commissioned anthem “Psalm 136” (Luminaria Magna) for
chorus and organ is to be premiered June 29 at St. Peter's Church, Albany,
at the opening convocation of the Region II Convention of the American Guild of
Organists.

Posted on Jun 6, 2003

Lorraine Morales Cox, assistant
professor of art history, gave a paper, “Locating the Black Self in Contemporary
Visual Culture,” at the second annual Black Atlantic Community Conference
at Central State University, the oldest historically black state college in
Ohio. The theme of this year's conference was “Black Being and
Consciousness.”

Posted on Jun 6, 2003

Dawn Parisi, leadership gifts officer,
received the Sphinx Award from the College's chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity. The award is given to a professor or administrator for support of
minority students at the College. Parisi has assisted the fraternity with the establishment
of the Mohammad A. Omar '94 Memorial
Community Service Internship, which was announced at the fraternity's recent 20th
anniversary commemoration. Omar died in a boating accident in 1993. The internship
will be awarded to a Union student through an application process to enable the
student to volunteer at a non-profit.