Posted on Feb 23, 2006

Through March 10

Wickoff Student Gallery,

Nott Memorial

Drawn to Print: Impressions of the Louvre

Drypoint etchings from the 2005 winter break mini-term in Paris

 

 

Through March 17

Burns Arts Atrium Gallery,

Arts Building

Photography by Cal Crary

& William Lamson

Features works by these two New York City artists. Crary, Class of 2000, produces images related to time and space. Lamson is an award-winning MFA student.

 

 

Through April 30

Mandeville Gallery,

Nott Memorial

Charles Steckler: Stage Design

A retrospective covering some 40 shows of stage designs crafted by Steckler, professor of theater and designer-in-residence, as well as drawings, construction models and artifacts, from life-size puppets to the hand-crafted sausages from Tartuffe.

Posted on Feb 23, 2006

Friday, Feb. 24, 1:15-2:15 p.m. / Olin Rotunda / Engineering Student Professional Society Fiesta

Friday, Feb. 24, 3 p.m. / F.W. Olin Center 115 / Department of Classics: Alex Gottesman of University of Chicago on “Reinventing Troy: Achilles Goes Hollywood”

Friday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink / Men's hockey vs. Colgate

Friday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. / Old Chapel / Rhythm for Life Concert to Fight AIDS

Friday, Feb. 24 – Monday, Feb. 27, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium/ Movie: “Jarhead”

Saturday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink / Men's hockey vs. Cornell

Sunday, Feb. 26, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Union College Choir, Victor Klimash, director of performance studies, conductor

Monday, Feb. 27, 12 p.m. / Social Sciences 103 / Pollster John Zogby on “The Political Landscape in 2006: The U.S. and the World”

Monday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Pollster John Zogby on “The Political Landscape in 2006: The U.S. and the World”

Monday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. / Beuth House / Film: “The Nasty Girl”

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 3:30 p.m. / Becker Career Center 201 / “Getting Started with Becker Career Center”

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m. / Golub House / Movie: Abre los Ojos directed by Alejandro Amenábar

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 4:20 p.m. / Wold House / Movie: Converging Technology

Wednesday, March 1, 10:50 a.m. / Memorial Chapel / Ed Kottick, musicologist, on “Gods and Mortal, Monkeys and Dolphins: The Exotic World of Early Keyboard Instruments”; and 12:05 p.m., on “Wire, Wood, Air, and Ear: How the Harpsichord Makes its Sound”

Wednesday, March 1, 7 p.m. / Arts Building 215 / Welsh poet Menna Elfyn

Thursday, March 2, 12:25 p.m. / Bailey Hall 207 / Biology seminar: Richard L. Cross of SUNY Upstate Medical University on “Biological Rotary Motors”

Thursday, March 2, 12:30 p.m. / NWS&E 304 / Physics seminar: Senior theses

Thursday, March 2, 12:30 p.m. / Arts Building 215 / Jennifer Matsue, assistant professor of music, East Asian studies and anthropology, on “Just What is the ‘Popular' in Popular Music? From Taiko to Techno in Contemporary Japan”

Thursday, March 2, 12:30 / Becker Career Center 212 / Workshop: Resume 101

Thursday, March 2, 12:40 p.m. / NWS&E 102 / Electrical and computer engineering seminar: John Reschovsky of Accumetrics Association Inc.

Thursday, March 2, 12:40 p.m. / NWS&E 222 / Computer science seminar: Rachel Cobleigh of UMass on “Propel: An Approach Supporting User Guidance in Developing Precise and Accessible Property Specifications”

Thursday March 2, 4 p.m. / Golub House / New faculty colloquium: Psychology, visual arts, mechanical engineering

Thursday, March 2, 4:30 p.m. / Phi Beta Kappa room / Philosophy speaker: Marya Schechtman of University of Illinois at Chicago on “Staying Alive: Personal Continuation and the Unity of a Life”

Thursday, March 2, 7-9p.m. / Arts Building 215 / Israeli poet Rachel Tzvia Back on Placing the Voice: The Personal and the Political, Israel 2006

Thursday, March 2, 8 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Musicians from Marlboro

Friday, March 3 – Monday, March 6, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Movie: “Rent”

Friday, March 3 and Saturday, March 4, 8 p.m. / Yulman Theatre / Winter Dance Concert featuring “Jean Cocteau: Le Prince Frivole”
Saturday, March 4, 7 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Barry Scott's tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted on Feb 22, 2006

Prominent musicologist, author, lecturer and designer of fine harpsichords Ed Kottick will deliver two seminars addressing connections between engineering and music on Wednesday, March 1, in Memorial Chapel.

Both talks, organized by Palma Catravas, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Dianne McMullen, associate professor of performing arts, with funding from an IEF grant, are open to the campus community.

At 10:50 a.m., Kottick will speak on “Gods and Mortals, Monkeys and Dolphins: The Exotic World of Early Keyboard Instruments.” The talk is geared toward McMullen's music history class, “From Beethoven to Bernstein.”

The 12:05 p.m. talk, “Wire, Wood, Air, and Ear: How the Harpsichord Makes its Sound,” is targeted at Catravas' “Engineering Acoustics” class.

Kottick, retired professor of musicology from the University of Iowa, is the author of the classic, The Harpsichord Owner's Guide, and, with George Lucktenberg, wrote “Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums.” For many years he made regular visits to the great European museums to examine, play and listen to antique harpsichords.

His articles have been published in Scientific American, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and other prestigious journals. His book, “A History of the Harpsichord,” covers the instrument's entire 600-year history in nearly 600 pages. Read more about him at http://kottick.com.

Posted on Feb 22, 2006

Mark Jaccard will speak on “Fossil Fuels – Friend or Foe?” on Thursday, March 9, at 7 p.m. at the Nott Memorial as part of the College's Environmental Studies Program on series on sustainable energy. Jaccard is director of the Energy and Materials Research Group and a professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His talk is free and open to the public.

Posted on Feb 22, 2006

The College has received an unrestricted gift of more than $5 million – one of the largest individual gifts to the school – from the estate of William Denison Williams '32, a former General Electric manager. The gift will be used to endow two chairs in his honor and for renovation of Butterfield Hall. The academic designation for the chairs is to be determined.

Williams, a longtime resident of Scotia, N.Y., died in Doylestown, Pa., on Oct. 15 at the age of 95. He earned his B.S. from Union in electrical engineering and was a member of Eta Kappa Nu. He also studied at Duke and Cornell universities.

At GE, he was manager of the Magnetics Section and worked in the engineering laboratory, retiring in 1954. He and his wife, the late Virginia (Smith) Williams, had no children.

Williams contributed modest amounts to Union each year. When he died, he left behind an estate that exceeded $20 million, much of it acquired through investments. He divided the bulk of it between Union, his wife's alma mater, Piedmont College in Georgia, and the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown.

An accomplished violinist, Williams also left gifts to individual musicians.

“We are extremely grateful to receive this generous gift,'' said Jim Underwood, interim president “Union obviously played a big role in William's life.”