November 8, 1996: Volume 38, Number 5

For The Record

Two new essays by Brenda Wineapple, Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, have recently appeared. "Women /Anger /Literature," a feminist reading of anger in literature by women, was published in the fall issue of culturefront, the magazine of the New York Council for the Humanities. The second, "I Loved Books, That Was All," is the essay that introduces The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier, the reprinted collection of Monnier's autobiographical pieces originally published by Scribner's in 1976 to wide acclaim. Wineapple, the author of Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein, was quoted in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article about Gertrude Stein's backing of the Vichy government during World War II.

Mark Walker, associate professor of history, and two colleagues (Elisabeth Crawford of Universite Louis Pasteur, and Lewin Sime of Sacramento City College) have published "A Nobel Tale of Wartime Injustice" in Nature. They write that newly-released documents reveal that, due to injustices in Nazi Germany, the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded unfairly to Germany's Otto Hahn alone. They claim credit for the discovery of nuclear fission should also have gone to collaborator Lise Meitner, a physicist of Jewish origin who had been forced to flee Germany in 1938.

Dan Lundquist, vice president for admissions and financial aid, was a source (and photo subject) for a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education about increasing enrollments at colleges in the Northeast. Union last year had a 20 percent increase in its yield, and the largest freshmen class ever at 595.

Janet Anderson, professor of chemistry, received an honorable mention in the U.S. Department of Energy's Undergraduate Computational Science Education Awards. She was cited for her work incorporating a variety of computer applications into the undergraduate quantum chemistry curriculum, using computers and scientific visualization to extend traditional applications into more interesting and realistic problems. The judging panel said her approach allows students to visualize complicated functions and structures, and encourages the use of the computer as a tool, not a focal point.

Tim Porter, assistant manager of the Union College Bookstore, was one of two members from the College Store Association of New York State to attend a leadership conference of the National Association of College Stores recently. Porter is chair of the education committee of CSA/NYS.

Jordan Smith, professor of English, is to publish poems in forthcoming issues of Yale Review, Harvard Magazine, and Paris Review.

William Finlay, associate professor of theatre and director of the Yulman Theater, is directing the 70th anniversary celebration of the Proctor's Theater. The performance, on Nov. 30, will feature contemporary vaudevillian performers from all over the United States.

Terry Weiner, professor of political science and sociology, delivered a paper, "Disillusion with Inclusion," at an international conference -- Crisis in the Human Services -- at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University recently. The paper is a critical analysis of the full inclusion movement for the disabled in public schools and other service systems.

Teresa Meade, associate professor of history, recently participated in a panel, "Gender and Nation in 20th Century Brazil," at the Brazilian Studies Association Meeting at Kings College, Cambridge University.

Peter Heinegg, professor of English, translated and edited His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time by Marco Politi and Carl Bernstein. The book has been published by Doubleday.

Robert Baker, professor of philosophy, has been awarded a Francis Wood Fellowship by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in support of his research on the history of American medical ethics. Baker was a Wood Fellow in residence last month researching the archives and manuscripts in the College of Physicians library.

Joseph Board, Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Government, was co-author of a paper on "The Judicialization of Politics" read at the annual meeting of the Committee on Judicial Studies of the International Political Science Association. He was author of an article, "The Joy (?) of Politics," published in Scandinavian Review (Spring 1996), and two op-ed articles published in Sydsvenska Daagbladet, Malmö, Sweden. Board was elected chairman of the board of trustees of Schenectady County Community College, and received the distinguished service award from the Association of Boards of Community Colleges.

Pilar Moyano, associate professor of Spanish, has published "Gender, Tradition and Nationalism in the Writings of Gioconda Belli" in Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film edited by Bishnupriya Ghosh and Brinda Bose (Garland Publishing).

James C. Adrian Jr., assistant professor of chemistry, has received a Cottrell College Science Award of $30,500 from Research Corporation in support of his project, "Biomimetic guest orientation in a charge separated macrolytic receptor." Research Corporation is a foundation for the advancement of science. The Cottrell College Science Program supports projects in chemistry, physics and astronomy that encourage the involvement of students in the research. Adrian has published a paper, "An Improved, Two Step Synthesis of the Chiral Templating Reagent 2,6-Dihydroxy-9, 10-dihydro-11, 12-dicarbomethoxyeethenoanthracene" in the journal Tetrahedron: Asymmetry. The paper is based on 1995 research of Tina Ovitt, a visiting Pew Summer Fellow from St. Lawrence University.

Karen Brison and Stephen Leavitt, assistant professors of anthropology, have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study gender differences in play among Fijian children. The project is to take place in the summer of 1997.

Charlotte Eyerman, John D. MacArthur Assistant Professor, visual arts, presented a paper, "Regarding the Musical Amateur in 19th Century French Culture" at a recent meeting of the Western Society for French History. The paper was part of the "Guises of the Amateur" panel, chaired by Prof. Bonnie Smith of Rutgers University.

Hilary Tann, professor of music, has composed From Afar, a 20-minute piece for orchestra, which is to receive its premiere on Nov. 14 by the Knoxville (Tenn.) Symphony Orchestra, Kirk Trevor conducting. The work was a commission from the Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest/National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Program. The piece, inspired by Tann's study of Japanese music with a Union Term Abroad, is to receive performances by five other orchestras next year. Recent performances of Tann's works include Of Erthe and Air (mixed trio) in Latvia; LLEF (flute and cello) at Wellesley College and in Dublin, Ireland; Doppleganger (solo piano) at Penn State; and The Open Field (full orchestra) by the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Elmira, N.Y. Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA selected a new work by Tann for the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Here, the Cliffs, a 15-minute work for violin and orchestra, will premiere next year with soloist Corine Cook and the orchestra, Gerhardt Zimmermann conducting.

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