September 22, 1995: Volume 35, Number 2

Coming events

The Career Development Center presents the 17th annual Career Festival "Opportunities '95" on Thursday, Sept. 28, from noon to 4 p.m. in Memorial Fieldhouse. More than 50 employers and graduate and professional programs will be represented. On Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m., in Old Chapel, there will be a reception sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

Brian Williams, general editor of the National Enquirer, will speak on Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. in the Reamer Campus Center auditorium. His topic: "Everything I Need to Know to be Successful I Read in the National Enquirer."

The College's Geology Department is hosting a combined meeting of the New York State Geological Association and the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Oct. 13 through 17 on campus. The meeting, titled "The Day is Short; the Task is Great -- Geology, Energy and the Environment" (derived from the inscription on the Nott), will include 21 field trips to the Adirondacks, Catskills and Mohawk Valley, 66 technical presentations on environmental and petroleum geology, and participation by grade K-12 earth science teachers.

On Saturday, Oct. 14, the College will celebrate the sesquicentennial of civil engineering and the centennial of electrical engineering with a historical review, panel discussion on engineering in the 21st century, banquet, and IEEE lecture by Edward Parrish, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and chair of the Engineering and Accreditation Commission, ABET. More than 4,000 alumni in the region have been invited.

The Raphael Ensemble String Sextet will open the 24th International Festival of Chamber Music on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. The 12-concert series, sponsored by Schenectady Museum and the College, will feature two-night performances by the popular Emerson String Quartet in all-Bartok programs.

The Machines of Leonardo da Vinci, an exhibition on display in the Nott Memorial through Nov. 25, features 15 contemporary models of mechanical devices conceived and designed by Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci. The models, commissioned by Thomas Watson, founder of IBM, have been fabricated from Leonardo's notebook drawings.

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