October 17, 2003: Volume 59, Number 6

Events

Thursday, Oct. 16 though Sunday, Oct. 19
Homecoming and Family Weekend
For complete schedule visit:
http://www.union.edu/newsite/Alumni/2003/full_schedule.php

 

Friday, Oct. 17
12:30 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center Auditorium – Huban Gowadia, program manager of the Radiological/Nuclear Countermeasures Division Science & Technology Directorate Department of Homeland Security on "Technology Challenges faced by the Department of Homeland Security in Detecting Explosives and Weapons of Mass Destruction." Sponsored by mechanical engineering.

 

Saturday, Oct. 18, through Monday, Oct. 20
8 and 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center auditorium – Movie: Legally Blonde 2

 

Saturday, Oct. 18
1 p.m. – Frank Bailey Field – Football, Dutchmen vs. Rochester (UCAA contest and Homecoming Weekend)
9 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – Naturally Seven, a capella group blending rap, R&B, soul and harmony.

 

Sunday, Oct. 19
7 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – Opening performance of the 2003-2004 Union College Concert Series featuring violinist Vadim Repin and pianist Alexander Korsantia. This is also Repin's Capital Region recital debut. Free for Union students (with ID).

 

Tuesday, Oct. 21
11:30 a.m. – Old Chapel – Faculty Colloquium with Julius Barbanel, professor of mathematics, "The First Great Crisis in the Foundations of Mathematics." A buffet lunch will follow at 12:30 p.m. in Hale House.
4 p.m. – Frank Bailey Field – women's field hockey vs. Hartwick.
4 p.m. – Garis Field – women's soccer vs. Elmira.
7:30 p.m. – Olin 106 – Prof. Jim Dalton of Siena College on "The Religious Imagination and the Creation Myth: Native Peoples and the Time of Origins." Sponsored by Protestant Campus Ministry.

 

Wednesday, Oct. 22
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Schaffer Library, third floor, book sale - $2 hardcover, $1 paperbacks.
World Series Lunch Redux- Upperclass dining.
3:30 p.m. – Feigenbaum Hall Conference Room – The eighth annual Feigenbaum Forum on "Building Processes to Improve Retention."
7 p.m. – Memorial Fieldhouse – women's volleyball vs. Williams.

 

Thursday, Oct. 23
12:25 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center 106 – Chemistry seminar with guest speaker Prof. Ernest Nolen of Colgate University, "Synthesis of C-Glycosyl Amino Acids and Other C-Glycosoconjugates: Stories from the Lab."
5:30 p.m. -- Olin 115 – Sarah Greenwald '91, assistant professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University, on "The Simpsons Rule: Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons." Greenwald, with her colleague Andrew Nestler at Santa Monica College, present their work on the popular TV show at a website: http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/simpsonsmath/. The talk is sponsored by the mathematics department.
7 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center auditorium – 12 Windows film series continues. Double feature: Akira and Neo-Tokyo, with Prof. Anu Jain moderating. Plot: Young motorcycle toughs stumble on the psychokinetic power that started a world war in this cyberpunk, animated film.
4:30 – Humanities 213 – Philosophy Talk with guest speaker Stewart Shapiro of Ohio State University.

 

Friday, Oct. 24
noon –  Everest Lounge, Hall House –  Union Scholars Luncheon presents Arthur Holden '77, chairman and CEO of First Genetic Trust, a "genetic bank" that protects the privacy of individual genetic information, speaking on his experience in medical and health care technology.

12:20 p.m. – Arts 215 – Lunchtime Jazz featuring Prof. Tim Olsen and other Capital Region jazz artists. This week's spotlight will be on bebop.
4 p.m. – Garis Field – men's soccer vs. Hobart (UCAA contest).
Deadline – Registration for Union College Mathematics Conference Nov. 8 and 9. Visit www.math.union.edu/~leshk/03/Conference for details

 

Saturday, Oct. 25
2 p.m. – Garis Field – men's soccer vs. Hamilton (UCAA contest).
8 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – Union College Concert Series continues. Featured performer, pianist Leon Fleisher. Free for Union students (with ID).

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