For The Record

David Cossey, executive director of computer services, was elected chair of the computing section of the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges. The committee deals with issues of academic computing, administrative computing, library automation, telecommunications and campus-wide networking. With Diane Keller, director of academic computing, he participated in a panel at a CLAC conference on supporting residential networking.

Walter Hatke, professor of visual arts, was invited to submit four paintings to the American Academy of Arts and Letters purchase program (for a major museum to be determined). The U.S. Department of State has requested a work, Option, to be loaned to the ambassador of Chad through the Art in the Embassies program. The Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design has acquired Hatke's Schuyler's Post for its collection in memory of the late Daniel Robbins, May I. Baker Professor of Art History at Union. Two of Hatke's paintings are being shown by Edward Montgomery Fine Art, a gallery in Carmel, Calif. His work was also included in a show of seven contemporary artists at New York's Babcock Galleries. Finally, 10 of Hatke's paintings are being featured at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art. Images of those 10 paintings will be digitized to be archived and made available through internet sites maintained by NMAA and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Seyfollah Maleki and James McWhirter, associate professors of physics, are cited in a publication by the Pew Science Program in Undergraduate Education. Maleki and a collaborator, Enrique Galvez of Colgate University, developed a course to bring modern techniques of laser spectroscopy into the advanced undergraduate physics laboratory. They say the techniques help students better understand the abstract concepts of quantum and atomic physics. At Union, the techniques are taught in Methods of Modern Experimental Physics, a three-term lab course. McWhirter and two collaborators developed a laboratory that includes the use of an inexpensive liquid helium cryostat for experiments in low-temperature phenomena.