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UAlbany and RPI Fall 1999 Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series presents: Dr. Terry Plank of Boston University, Sediment Recycling at the Subduction Factory and Consequences for the Continents at 4 p.m. at RPI in SC 3W13. 

November 4, Thursday
Language Advocacy Project Lecture Series: Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation for Limited English Proficient Students, Sandra Cuellar, consultant, 7:30 p.m. in 123 ED. Free and open to the public.

November 5, Friday
New York State Writers Institute Fall Film Series: Gunga Din directed by George Stevens will be shown at 7:30 p.m. at Page Hall. The screening is free and open to the public.

Department of Music presents the Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $5 for general admission, and $2 for students. For more information, call the Performing Arts Center at 442-3997.

November 8, Monday
The Archaelogical Institute of America and the Department of Classics presents: An illustrated lecture, Nero’s Purple Dreams and the Porphyry Quarries of Roman Egypt by Professor J. Clayton Fant in Humanities 354 at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Danish Movies: Denmark, History and Culture, and Two Danish Welfare Tales, at 6 p.m. in Humanities B19. Presented by Anne Marfey, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Free and open to the public.

The Department of Political Science will sponsor a talk at 3:30 p.m. in Milne Hall, Room 200 on The Kosovo Crisis: Ethnic Boundaries and Relations Revisited. Ognyan Minchev, an associate professor from Sofia University and Director of the Institute for Regional and International Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, will speak.

November 9, Tuesday
Graduate Student Organization presents: A panel discussion on The Relationship of Gender to School Shootings at the Alumni House from 6 to 8 p.m. Everyone is invited. Refreshments will be served. For more information call 442-4178.

The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom, main campus. ROTC is the sponsor. Call 442-0828 to make an appointment.

University Auxiliary Services Annual Board of Directors meeting, at 1 p.m. in the Patroon Room Private Dining Room.

University Women’s Luncheons, The Millennium Series, Fall 1999 presents: Frankie Bailey, Women in Prison: Crack Moms, Death Row Grannies, and Other Notorious 20th Century Women in the Campus Center Terrace Lounge from 12 to 1 p.m.

School of Public Health Fall Seminar Series 1999: Health Situation in the Americas: Measuring Inequity in Health by Carlos Castillo-Salgado at East Campus from 8 to 9 a.m. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Center for International Health.

Learning Disability Film Series. Understanding Learning Disabilities: How Difficult Can This Be? Shown at 4 p.m. in the Campus Center Terrace Lounge.

Natural History Lecture Series.
Dick Tucker, Penny Ice Cap Expedition, at 8 p.m. in Lecture Center 7, main campus. A snowshoe expedition, the third crossing of the Penny Ice Cap in Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut, Canada. Sponsored by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.

November 10, Wednesday
UAlbany and RPI Fall 1999 Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series presents: Richard Naslund of SUNY Binghamton discusses the Origin of Magnetite Lavas at El Laco, Chile in Albany Earth Science Bldg. room 232 at 4 p.m.

Findlay Cockrell’s Twice Wednesday Concerts, 12:20 p.m. and 4:20 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center. Department of Music. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 442-3997.

Department of Physics Presentation.  Joint Computation Science, Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology presentation on MEMS Modeling on Advanced High Performance Computers, at 5 p.m. in Room R102 at the CESTM building, Washington Avenue and Fuller roads.

New York Celebrates Entrepreneurship from 6 to 8 p.m. at Hudson Valley Community College, in the Maureen Stapleton Theatre, first floor, campus center. Sponsored by the New York Institute of Entrepreneurship.

November 11, Thursday
The New York Writers Institute presents: Author Ann Beattie to read from her work at 8 p.m. in Page Hall. Earlier she will hold an informal seminar in Humanities 354 at 4 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Henry Sussman, the Julian Park professor of humanities and chair of comparative literature at SUNY Buffalo, will lecture on The Role of the Critic: A Play of Registers, at 4 p.m. in ED 335. Sponsored by the Department of English.

November 12, Friday
The New York Writers Institute 1999 Fall Classic film series presents: “Le Samourai”(“The Godson”) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville in French with English subtitles at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall. Free and open to the public.

November 15, Monday
Movie: Queen Margrette of Denmark, at
6 p.m. in Humanities B19. Presented by Anne Marfey, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Free and open to the public.

1999 Rockefeller College Alumni Reception and Awards Ceremony to be held at the Terrace Gallery of the New York State Museum, Albany. Reception at 5:30 p.m. with an awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. This year’s guest speaker is Thomas P. Eichler, secretary of services for children, youth and their families for the state of Delaware. Five distinguished UAlbany alumni to be recognized: Eichler, Jeffrey A. Mishkin, Kenneth G. Adams, Gladys Ann Wells, and Holly B. Fox. For more information, call Florence Bolton at 442-5121.

November 16, Tuesday
New York State Writers Institute. Award-winning novelist Annie Proulx will read from her work at 8 p.m. at Page Hall, 135 Western Ave. Proulx won the Pulitzer Prize for Shipping News (1993).

UAlbany, RPI Fall 1999 Earth Sciences Joint Colloquium Series presents: Dr. Bryan Isacks of Cornell University discusses Radar Illuminates Enigmas of Western Andean Tectonics in RPI SC 3W13 at 4 p.m.

School of Public Health Fall Seminar Series 1999: Protecting New York City’s Watershed by William Stasiuk, deputy commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, at the East Campus from 8 to 9 a.m. Free and open to the public. 

The President’s Task Force on Women’s Safety will meet from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in AD 123, main campus. The 
task force has been active for almost 20 years to ensure the safe environment necessary for work and study for women at UALbany.

November 17, Wednesday
Department of Music Student Recital at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, main campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

November 19-20, 23
December 1-4
University Theatre Presents School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his landmark comedy. Starts at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, Performing Arts Center (starts at 3 p.m. on November 3), main campus. Admission is $10 for the general public and $7 for students, senior citizens, Alumni Association and University staff. for reservations call Performing Arts Center at 442-3997.

November 20, Saturday
The Department of Music presents a Fall Choral Concert University-Community Chorale, University Chamber Singers at 7 p.m., main theatre, Performing Arts Center. main campus. David Griggs-Janower, director.

November 29, Monday
The Senate Executive Committee, 
originally scheduled for Nov. 15, will meet at 3:30 p.m. in AD 253. For more information, contact Madelyn Cicero at 442-5406.
 

Open Forums For All Faculty and Staff to Discuss the Proposal for the  New General Education Requirements for Students Entering After Fall 2000  Thursday,  November 11 2:00 p.m.  Tuesday,  November 16 1:00 p.m. At the Campus Center Terrace Lounge Jointly sponsored by: The Office of Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Academic Council and  Educational Policy Council

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