John Miller,
technical director at Yuma Theater, was lighting designer for the play K-2 at Curtain Call Theatre in Latham
recently. The production was the first of the theater's eight-play season.
Professor Robert Baker Speaks at NYU forum
Robert Baker,
professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Bioethics and Clinical
Leadership, was a speaker (with Robert Cassidy, Professor of Philosophy at Ramapo College of NJ; and Robert Gurland,
Professor of Philosophy at New York University) at a forum titled “Teaching
Virtue: Ethics Across the Curriculum” held recently by the Faculty Resource
Network at New York University. The three examined how issues such as corporate
greed, rigid fundamentalism and radical disregard for others raise moral
questions in many academic disciplines that beg to be addressed in classes. Gurland argued that faculty must address these issues,
Cassidy that the moral principle of fraternity must be valued as highly as
liberty and equality, and Baker illustrated how moral principles are applied to
important biomedical issues.
Walter Hatke
Walter Hatke,
May I. Baker Professor of Art, has a solo exhibition of his paintings and
drawings, “Walter Hatke: Upstate Diary,” on display through November 2 at the Gerald
Peters Gallery
in Santa Fe, N.M.
The forward to the exhibit catalog was written by Jordan Smith, professor of
English. “It is my conviction that the best landscapes are those where artists
… have firsthand acquaintance,” he has said. “One must walk across the land,
touch it, note the crunch underfoot, breathe the air, literally smell and taste
the atmosphere.”
Feigenbaum forum explores “Converging Technologies”
Armand V. and Donald S.
Feigenbaum, leading authorities on Total Quality Management, are to participate
in the seventh annual Feigenbaum Forum on Monday, Oct. 21, at 3:30 p.m. in the Conference Room in Feigenbaum
Hall.
The topic of this year's forum is “Converging
Technologies.”
Panelists also include President
Roger Hull; J. Douglass Klein, director of the Center for Converging
Technologies and associate dean for information technology; Charlotte Borst,
dean of arts and sciences; and Robert Balmer, dean of engineering.
The Feigenbaums, both Union grads,
are founders of General Systems Company in Pittsfield,
Mass. The company designs and implements
integrated management systems for major corporations and organizations
throughout the world.
A tribute to Dudley Observatory; Mandeville show includes lectures and films
The Mandeville Gallery at the Nott
Memorial is celebrating the sesquicentennial of the Dudley Observatory with an
exhibition titled “Reaching for the Stars — The Story of the Dudley
Observatory.”
The show, which runs through
December 22, is accompanied by a series of lectures, films and observing nights
at the Union College
telescope in the F.W. Olin
Center. All events are free and
open to the public.
Events open with a reception on
Sunday, Oct. 20, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the gallery. There will also be safe
solar observing, weather permitting, outside the Nott.
The exhibition traces the history
of the local astronomical institution from its ambitious beginning in Albany
in 1852 through its current endeavors in support of astronomy and astronomical
research. Objects range from telescopes to space dust collection devices as
well as photographs, paintings, prints, letters, maps and rare books.
The Sesquicentennial Lecture
Series will include three lectures on Sunday afternoons about the history of
the Dudley Observatory and astronomical breakthroughs during its time. The first lecture, “Star Wars, Stellar
Motions and Space Dust: The Dudley Observatory 1852-2002” will be by George
Wise of the Observatory on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 2
p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
The film series portion of the
exhibition starts on Friday, Nov. 1, at 7:30
p.m. in the Olin Center Auditorium. Several films will be shown
including Powers of Ten, The Trouble with
Tribbles, and Trials and
Tribble-ations.
One of the oldest organizations in
the U.S.
dedicated to the support of astronomical research, the Dudley Observatory was
chartered by the state in 1852, largely funded by Blandina Dudley of Albany
in memory of her husband, Senator Charles E. Dudley.
In its first century, the
Observatory's astronomers made internationally important advances in astronomy
– charting the precise motions of stars and compiling influential catalogs of
the stars. In the 1950s, the Observatory turned to research in the area of
micrometeorites, tiny dust particles that continuously bombard the earth from
space. In the 1970s, the mission turned to the support of research in
astronomy, astrophysics and the history of astronomy. The Dudley
library contains one of the world's finest collections of historically
significant texts, which are made
available to scholars studying the history of astronomy and astrophysics.
Locally, grants are awarded to schools and local communities to fund
educational programs, trips to planetariums and museums, scholarships to
Advanced Astronomy Camp and Advanced Space Camp, and radio and television
programming. On the national level, the Fullam and Pollack Awards fund
innovative research in astronomy and the history of astronomy.
For more information see
www.union.edu/gallery