University Update Datebook

Senate Fellows Sought until May 3

The New York State Senate is offering Graduate, Post-Graduate, and Mid-Career Fellowships for 2002-2003 to provide talented individuals with an intimate knowledge of New York State government and to attract these individuals to public service careers.

The program begins on September 12 and concludes on July 16, 2003. The application deadline is May 3, 2002.

Applicants for a Legislative Fellowship or a Wiebe Public Service Fellowship must be United States and New York citizens or citizens of other states now enrolled as full-time matriculated graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in accredited programs. The Roth Journalism Fellow may be a recent exceptional graduate at the undergraduate level. The Biggane Fellow in Finance and Fiscal Studies will be a person in mid-career not younger than 35 years old at the time of application. All academic majors are invited to apply. Class work is prohibited during the full-time fellowship.

Each fellow receives a fully taxable stipend of $29,500. Fellows are not Senate employees and do not earn vacation or personal leave.

For application forms and additional information, contact Professor Joseph F. Zimmerman, Rockefeller College, 288 Richardson Hall (downtown campus), 135 Western Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12222, or call 442-5378 or 439-9440, or send an e-mail to zimmer@albany.edu.



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	April 25, Monday 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. April 26, Friday LACS Special Lecture noon, Humanities 354 Lecture - “Two Contradictions of ‘Mature Neoliberalism’: Labor Equity and Social Participation in Chile.” For more information, call 442-4891. Women’s Studies Colloquium 2 - 4 p.m., CETL East Seminar Room, Science Library. “Romancing the ‘Other’: Appropriating ‘Third World’ sexuality and spirituality in the ‘New Age.’” Presenters: Jennifer Champ, Janell Hobson, Vivien Ng. For more information, call 442-4771 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/ws. Department of Biological Sciences 3 p.m., Bio 248. Dr. Barry Duceman, director of biological sciences, New York State Forensic Investigative Center, will speak on “The National Forensic DNA Database: Success & Challenge.” For more information, call 442-4388. Economics Department Seminar 3:30 - 5 p.m., BA 130. Ronald Ehrenberg of Cornell University will present “Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market.” *The Turandot Project* 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Ave., downtown campus. Screening of film The Turandot Project (2000), a documentary on the Chinese production of Puccini’s opera “Turandot.” For more information, call 442-5620 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/writers-inst. William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre. Directed by Mark Dalton. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/theatre.html. April 27, Saturday Senior Voice Recital 6 p.m., Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. Angela M. Adragna, soprano, will be performing works by Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Faure’, Copland and more. Admission is free and open to the public. Visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/music.html. William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre. Directed by Mark Dalton. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/theatre.html. April 28, Sunday William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 3 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre. Directed by Mark Dalton. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/theatre.html. April 29, Monday Senior Viola Recital 7 p.m., Performing Arts Center Recital Hall. Jonina Wilkins, viola, and Gordon Hibberd, piano, performing works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Rebecca Clark. Admission is free and open to the public. Visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/music.html. April 30, Tuesday SSW Brown Bag Lunch Colloquium Series noon - 1 p.m., Draper Hall 105, downtown campus. Lynn Videka-Sherman will present research on “Needs and Services for Families of Mothers with Serious Mental Disorders: a Gaps Analysis.” Reception for Dean Kaloyeros 3 - 5 p.m., CESTM Rotunda. President Karen R. Hitchcock celebrates the founding dean of the School of Nanosciences and Nanoengineering, Alain Kaloyeros. For more information, call 442-5373. Department of Chemistry Seminar Series 4:30 p.m., CH 151. Dr. Alistair J. Lees of Binghamton University will present “Organometallic Excited States and Their Varied Photochemistry: Some New Directions and Applications.” For more information, call 442-4400. Grace Paley/Robert Nichols Reading 8 p.m., 3303 Sage Building, RPI, Troy. Authors Grace Paley and Robert Nichols read from their work in conjunction with Rensselaer’s McKinney Writing Contest For more information, call 442-5620 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/ writers-inst. May 1, Wednesday William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre. Directed by Mark Dalton. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/theatre.html. May 2, Thursday Sixth Annual Campus Clean-Up Day 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., uptown and downtown campuses. Join us for an extraordinary day of fun, hard work, socializing with colleagues and tangible accomplishment: Thursday, May 2. Rain date - Tuesday, May 7. For more information, visit our Web site at http://web.albany.edu/ cleanup. Study Abroad in United Kingdom 4 p.m., LC 31-J. Program includes universities of Hull, Nottingham, Plymouth and American Intercontinental Univers-ity, London, England; universities of Glasgow, Scotland, and Swansea, Wales. For more information, call 442-3525 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/ intled. Citizen Laureate Awards Dinner 6:30 p.m., Hall of Springs, Saratoga. Honorees are Alan Goldberg and Mary Kahl. For more information, call Michael Boots at 442-3038 or e-mail mboots@uamail.albany.edu. IROW Lecture 7 p.m., Standish Room, Science Library. Penelope Andrews, CUNY professor of law, speaks on “When Rhetoric of Women’s Human Rights Meets Reality of Human Security: Reflections on Global Interdependence of Rights.” For more information, call 442-5281 or visit our Web site at www.irow@albany.edu. William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre. Directed by Mark Dalton. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/theatre.html. May 3, Friday Honor a Scholar - Student Appreciation 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Patroon Room - Campus Center. Thank your student assistants and interns with a celebratory lunch in the Patroon Room. Specialty-themed lunch buffet, tempting desserts and beverage only $7.50. For more information, call 442-5994 or visit our Web site at www.mycampusdining. com/albany. Philosophy Lecture 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. in HU 132. Dan Patrone will speak on “Kant on the Problem of the Highest Good.” Call Professor Hal Morick at 442-4261 for more information. *The Man Who Laughs* 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Ave., downtown campus. Screening of silent film The Man Who Laughs (1928) with live piano accompaniment. For more information, call 442-5624 or visit our Web site at www.albany.edu/writers-inst. William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre. Directed by Mark Dalton. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/theatre.html. May 4, Saturday William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre. Directed by Mark Dalton. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/theatre.html. May 5, Sunday The University at Albany Symphony Orchestra 7 p.m., Performing Arts Center Main Theatre. The UAlbany Symphony proudly presents graduating senior violist Jonina Wilkins in a performance of Andante and Rondo ungarese by Carl Maria von Weber and more. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/music.html. May 6, Monday An American in Paris 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Patroon Room - Campus Center. Bon appetit with classic French cuisine. Lunch buffet, dessert and beverage - $7.50. For more information, call 442-5990 or visit our Web site at www.mycampusdining.com /albany. Romans on the Danube 7 p.m., University at Albany, HU 354. Illustrated lecture by Professor Michael Werner (UAlbany). For more information, call 442-4048. UAlbany Concert Band and Percussion Ensemble 8 p.m., Performing Arts Center Main Theatre. The UAlbany Concert Band and UAlbany Percussion Ensemble in concert, featuring “Concertino” by Clifton Williams, and more. For tickets, call 442-3997 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/pac/music.html. May 7, Tuesday CETL Workshop 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., CETL East Seminar Room. Resources for Creating Course Packets. For more information, call 437-3918 or visit our Web site at http://www.albany.edu/cetl/ workshop/seminar_spring2002.html#packets. Department of Chemistry Seminar Series 4:30 p.m., CH 151. Dr. Kenneth D. Karlin of Johns Hopkins University will present “Synthetic Modeling of Copper and Heme-Copper Dioxygen Chemistry.” UAlbany Update is a faculty/staff newsletter published every other week during the academic year by the Office of Media and Marketing, University at Albany-State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222 Editor: Greta Petry Assistant Editor: Carol Olechowski Art Director: Janet Topal Editor of Photography: Mark Schmidt e-mail: gpetry@uamail.albany.edu. http://www.albany.edu. (518) 437-4986 Home Page/ Front Page/ Campus News/ Features/ Sports/ Date Book	Senate Fellows Sought until May 3 The New York State Senate is offering Graduate, Post-Graduate, and Mid-Career Fellowships for 2002-2003 to provide talented individuals with an intimate knowledge of New York State government and to attract these individuals to public service careers. The program begins on September 12 and concludes on July 16, 2003. The application deadline is May 3, 2002. Applicants for a Legislative Fellowship or a Wiebe Public Service Fellowship must be United States and New York citizens or citizens of other states now enrolled as full-time matriculated graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in accredited programs. The Roth Journalism Fellow may be a recent exceptional graduate at the undergraduate level. The Biggane Fellow in Finance and Fiscal Studies will be a person in mid-career not younger than 35 years old at the time of application. All academic majors are invited to apply. Class work is prohibited during the full-time fellowship. Each fellow receives a fully taxable stipend of $29,500. Fellows are not Senate employees and do not earn vacation or personal leave. For application forms and additional information, contact Professor Joseph F. Zimmerman, Rockefeller College, 288 Richardson Hall (downtown campus), 135 Western Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12222, or call 442-5378 or 439-9440, or send an e-mail to zimmer@albany.edu.