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Milestones Named: William Shafer has been named capital projects and construction manager at the College. A graduate of Stanford University, he has a master of architecture degree from Harvard University and is a licensed architect in Maryland and California. His primary responsibility during the next two years will be to oversee the planning, design, and renovation and expansion of Schaffer Library.

Elected: Lewis Golub, chairman and chief executive officer of the Golub Corporation, is the new chair of the Advisory Council of the Graduate Management Institute. New members on the council are Maus Bergman, president and chief executive officer of Allegheny Power System, Inc.; Bruce Cohen, managing partner of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.; and William Davis, chairman and chief executive officer of Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

Works in progress Dan Lundquist, vice president for admissions and financial aid, is the chair-elect of the U.S. College Committee of the European Council of International Schools (ECIS), the oldest and largest association of international schools. The committee is the liaison between U.S. colleges and universities and the more than 250 ECIS schools.

Harry Marten, the Edward E. Hale, Jr., Professor of English, has received a $62,300 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a seminar for teachers on the novels of Joseph Conrad. Marten will direct the seminar at the College in July.

Donald Rodbell, assistant professor of geology, has received a grant of $173,000 from the National Science Foundation to study the geologic record of climate change in the Andes Mountains of Peru and Ecuador. Last summer, he and students Jeffrey Nebolini '96 and Adam Goodman '96 spent six weeks doing field work in Ecuador.

Nudged to the Nobel Union may have given Martin Perl, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics, the nudge he needed to pursue a career in physics.

Perl was a young chemical engineer at the General Electric Company when he took two courses-advanced calculus and nuclear physics-from Professor Vladimir Rojansky.

Former Professor of Physics David Peak, writing in a history of the department at Union, said, "Rojansky's lectures were so compelling [Perl] was left with no choice but to resign from G.E. and pursue an advanced degree in physics." He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University.

Perl, a professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, won the Nobel Prize for his 1975 discovery of a new elementary particle known as the tau lepton.

Union students help Big Brothers-Big Sisters widen its reach Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Schenectady and Saratoga Counties has received $10,333 in funding to pair twenty older "at risk" children with Union students.

Jay Eckenberger, director of the organization, said, "These are kids who might be in some trouble. We're hoping that Union students can show them a different value system and help them latch on to some goals so they can finish school and maybe go on to college."

The children, ages twelve to fifteen, will come to campus for about three hours each Sunday for activities ranging from sports to tutoring.

More than 200 Union students are involved in Big Brothers-Big Sisters activities on campus, making it the largest chapter locally and one of the most popular student activities.

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