April 11, Thursday
University Bookstore hosts Senior Salute
10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Bookstore Atrium, Campus Center. Join us at this fair
for students, faculty, and staff. Students are invited to stop by and
purchase all Commencement-related items. Staff members are encouraged
to come and learn about the weekend, and sign up to volunteer! Several
student offices, such as Career Development Services, Student Activities,
and Alumni Relations, will be on hand, as well. For more information,
visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/ commencement.
Maintaining A Healthy Weight Loss Plan
Noon - 1 p.m., Campus Center, Terrace Lounge. Food Management Consultant
Nancie Segel returns to help coach us in healthy eating strategies for
weight loss! For more information, call 442-5483 or visit our Web site
at www.albany.edu/eap.
President’s Task Force on Women’s Safety
2 - 3:30 p.m., Terrace Lounge, Campus Center. Open Forum sponsored by
the President’s Task Force on Women’s Safety. Open to the University Community.
Bring your safety issues and ideas. For more information, call 442-5204.
Creating NY State Public Policy
4:30 - 6 p.m, UAlbany’s Page Hall (downtown campus). A panel featuring
noted historians/biographers Professor Betty Winfield, Professor Robert
Slayton, Paul Grondahl, and Richard Norton Smith will discuss major figures
in 20th-century politics. For more information, call 442-3540 or visit
our Web site at http://library.albany.edu.
Reading by Chris Bohjalian
8 p.m., Main Theatre, Performing Arts Center. Vermont author Chris Bohjalian,
whose novel Midwives was an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection, reads from
his new novel The Buffalo Soldier. For more information, visit our Web
site at www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
April 12, Friday
Women’s Studies Colloquium
2 - 4 p.m., CETL East Seminar Room, Science Library. “Chinatown Files,”
a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Amy Chen about the harassment
of Chinese Americans during the McCarthy period. Screening and conversation.
For more information, visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/ws.
Department of Biological Sciences Seminar
3 p.m., Bio 248. Dr. Arlen Johnson, University of Texas at Austin, will
speak on “Nuclear Export of the Large Ribosomal Subunit.” For more information,
call 442-4368.
CSDA Colloquium
3:30 - 5 p.m., Terrace Lounge, Campus Center. Dalton Conley, professor
of sociology at New York University, will present “Income and Health --
Two-Way Street or Dangerous Intersection?” For more information, call
442-2905 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/ csda/colloquia2.html.
“Field of Dreams”
7 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Ave., downtown campus. Screening of Field
of Dreams (1989), starring Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan. Phil Alden Robinson,
the film’s director, will answer questions immediately following. For
more information, visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
April 15, Monday
CETL Workshop
12:20 - 1:15 p.m., CETL Digital Workshop 2. MERLOT: Peer Review for Online
Course Materials is a growing collection of online learning materials
and support resources that help faculty enhance their instruction. For
more information, call 437-3918 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/
cetl/workshop/seminar_spring2002.html#peer.
April 16, Tuesday
Memorial Service for Dean Harbison
11 a.m., garden at the north side of the School of Education. President
Hitchcock invites the University community to a special service in memory
of the late Ralph W. Harbison II, dean of the School of Education, 2000
- 2002.
Tuesday Policy Luncheon
12:15 p.m., Rudolf Room, Husted Hall, Downtown Campus. Martin Edelman,
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, UAlbany, will be the guest speaker.
His topic will be “What Remains of the Oslo Peace Process?” For more information,
call 442-5244.
American Red Cross Blood Drive
3 - 7 p.m., Alumni Quad - Waterbury sponsored blood drive. We need your
help; take an hour and save a life! To make your appointment, call 462-7461,
ext. 815, by 4/15/02. For more information, visit our Web site at www.redcross.usa.org.
Department of Chemistry Seminar Series
4:30 p.m., CH 151. Dr. Kenneth G. Caulton of Indiana University will present
“A Combined Experimental/ Computational Approach to Carbene Complexes
and NR Transfer to Olefins.” For more information, call 442-4400.
“Narrative Medicine”
7 p.m., Chapel House. Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., will be speaking on “Narrative
Medicine: Writing and Reading in Illness and Healing.” For more information,
call 442-4084.
French Studies Program Film Series
7:30 p.m., HU B39. “Salut Cousin” (France) - 1996, by Merzak Allouache,
with Gab Elmaleh, Mess Hattou, Magaly Berdy. For more details, see Calendar
of Events.
FREE Serendipity Concert
7:30 p.m., Ritazza Coffee Cafe-Campus Center. The all-female singing group
Serendipity will be performing live at Ritazza. Enjoy a wonderful evening
of music and mocha. For more information, visit our Web site at www.mycampusdining.com/albany.
Lecture by John Lahr
8 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center. John Lahr, theatre critic
for The New Yorker, presents the Sixth Annual Burian Lecture. For more
information, visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/ writers-inst.
April 17, Wednesday
UA-RPI Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series
4.30 p.m., Earth Science Bldg. Room 232. Dr. Tekla Harms, Amherst College,
will speak on “Estimating shortening in a penetratively deformed domain
of the Cordilleran thrust belt.” For more information, visit our Web site
at http://www.albany.edu/geosciences/semrcurr.html.
April 18, Thursday
UA-RPI Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series
4 p.m., Room 324, Darrin Communi-cation Center at RPI. Simon Winchester
(author of The Map that Changed the World) will speak on “Is Geology cool?
How William Smith became a best-seller.” For more information, visit our
Web site at http://www.albany.edu/geosciences/semrcurr.html.
April 19, Friday
Dean’s Research Seminar Series
10 - 11:30 a.m., BA 219. “The Representation of Objects and Events in
a Semantic Net” by Dr. Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University. For
more information, call 442-4949 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/
acc/research/fellbaum.html.
An Italian Wedding
11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Patroon Room - Campus Center. You are cordially invited
to an Italian wedding feast complete with prime rib and pasta stations,
beautiful buffet, wedding cake and favors. $7.50. Reservations, please,
to 442-5994. For more information, visit www.mycampusdining.com/albany.
Disabled Student Services Awards Luncheon
12 noon - 1:30 p.m., Campus Center Ballroom. This is the 20th annual DSS
Awards Luncheon recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions
to people with disabilities. Lunch is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Department of Biological Sciences
3 p.m., Bio 248. Dr. Jayne Yack, Carleton University, Ottawa, will speak
on “Acoustic communication in caterpillars.” For more information, call
442-4344.
Economics Department Seminar
3:30 - 5 p.m., BA 130. Cheng Wang, Iowa State University and Carnegie
Mellon University, will present a paper, “When to Fire a CEO?”
“Le Million”
7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, downtown campus. Screening
of French film “Le Million” (1931). A musical comedy about an artist,
his friends, and a lost lottery ticket. Directed by Rene Clair. For more
information, call 442-5620 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
April 22, Monday
Book Reading and Signing
6 p.m., University Bookstore (Campus Center). Paul Alan Rosen, an alum
and current staff member, will be reading from his new novel, The Poseidon
Project, answering questions, and signing copies. For more information,
call 442-5863 or visit our Web site at www.booklocker.com/books/668.html.
April 23, Tuesday
32nd Theodore G. Standing Lecture
2 p.m., Recital Hall, PAC. Rand D. Conger will lecture on “Across Generations:
Family Influences on the Development of Competence as a Parent and Romantic
Partner.” Reception to follow in Futterer Lounge. For more information,
call 442-4690 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/sociology.
Department of Chemistry Seminar Series
4:30 p.m., CH 151. Dr. Erwin London of SUNY Stony Brook will present “Organization
of Lipids and Proteins in Membranes.” For more information, call 442-4400.
April 24, Wednesday
Israel in Jewish Education Today
7:30 - 9 p.m., Lecture Center 5. Avraham Infeld, counsel for Jewish affairs
of Hillel and president emeritus of Melitz, will present a talk on this
timely topic. For more information, call 489-8573, ext. 24.
April 25, Thursday
Department of Economics Seminar
4 - 5:30 p.m., BA 130. Ronald G. Ehrenberg of Cornell University will
present “Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market.”
Reading by Russell Baker
8 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Ave., downtown campus. Russell Baker, humorist,
journalist, and essayist, author of the nationally syndicated “Observer”
column, reads from and discusses his work. For more information, call
442-5624 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
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United States and the Middle East Explored Professor Leon Carl Brown, the Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and a specialist on the Middle East, will present this year’s Phi Alpha Theta Lecture on April 17 at 4 p.m. in HU 354. Brown’s talk, “Looking Back at the U.S. and the Middle East after September 11,” is sponsored by the history department and Phi Alpha Theta and is open to the public.
An expert on the Arab world and U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East, Brown will explore the broad lines of U.S. involvement in the Middle East from the 19th century to the present. He will discuss the parallels between the age of American preeminence in the Middle East and the earlier period of British influence. In addition, Brown is expected to delve into the “Eastern Question” as a pattern of politics in the region that continued past the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Cold War and into the present.
“Fifteen” at Studio Theatre April 16
“Fifteen,” written by playwright and poet Ozioma Egwuonwu, is a unique play that deals with the nature of memory and regret. It will be performed in the Studio Theatre of the Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, April 16. The cost of tickets is $5. Doors open at 8 p.m. Show starts at 8:30 p.m. sharp. Call 442-1703 to reserve tickets.
April 29, Monday
SUNY System Administration Invites the Public to Participate in an Evaluation of the University at Albany and its stewardship by President Hitchcock.
2:45 - 3:45 p.m., Standish Room, Science Library. Under a procedure established by the SUNY Board of Trustees, the Chancellor is required to conduct an evaluation of each campus and the stewardship by its president at regular intervals. Such a review is scheduled for the University at Albany this year.
During an on-campus visit, there will be an opportunity for those interested to meet individually with the SUNY-appointed external evaluator, Dr. Steven Portch, former chancellor of the University System of Georgia. He will be accompanied by SUNY Associate Vice Chancellor Marianna O’Dwyer. To arrange an appointment to meet with them during the scheduled time period, please contact Mrs. Yasmin Walker, SUNY System Administration (518) 443-5364, or (e-mail) whiteya@sysadm.suny.edu.
