PTTP to present Stoppard comedy ‘The Real Thing’
The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard’s intricate comedy of romantic delusions and theatrical illusions, opens Thursday, April 13, at UD. Produced by the Professional Theatre Training Program, it tells the story of playwright Henry and his wife, Annie, who search for their own version of “the real thing” in the paradoxical and disorganized world of romantic love. Intensely moving and highly entertaining, the work poses the philosophical question of whether language unites us with or separates us from emotional truth.
Performances will be held in Hartshorn Hall. Evening shows are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, Friday, April 14, Saturday, April 15, Wednesday, April 26, Saturday, April 29, Sunday, April 30, Tuesday, May 2, and Friday, May 5. Matinee performances are scheduled at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 29, and Saturday, May 6.
Individual ticket prices range from $10 to $17 for Friday and Saturday evening performances, $9 to $16 for weeknights and $7 to $14 for matinees and Sunday evening shows.
Call 831-2204.
Journalism accountability is topic of Norton lecture
Theodore Glasser, professor of communication and director of the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University, will give a talk on “Accountability in Journalism: What’s Missing and Needed” at the fourth annual David Norton Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the David Norton Memorial Fund and the Department of Philosophy, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 11, in 125 Clayton Hall.
The coauthor of Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue, Glasser has been honored with Pennsylvania State University’s Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism and both the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi and the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha awards for research on journalism. Glasser is a former vice president and chairperson of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association. He also held various offices in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, which in 1987 awarded him its Hillier Krieghbaum Award for outstanding research, teaching, and public service.
His research focuses on press practices and performance, with emphasis on questions of media responsibility and accountability. He holds a doctorate from the University of Iowa.
The lecture is supported by the David Norton Memorial Fund honoring the late UD philosophy professor, the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, the Department of Philosophy and the Class of 1955 Ethics Endowment Fund.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For information, call 831-6075.
All-Beethoven program in Loudis Recital Hall April 20
Works for piano and cello, performed by UD music faculty members Michael Steinberg, pianist, and Hekun Wu, cellist, will be presented at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 20, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
This free program will feature music for piano and cello by Beethoven, including Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” and Variations on “Bei Männern,” both based on arias from Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Also featured are two of Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and cello–Sonata No. 2 in g minor, Opus 5, No. 2 and Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69.
Professor of piano at UD, Steinberg began serious piano studies at the age of 8 with the American pianist Ray Lev. After earning a degree in architecture from Yale University, Steinberg received a master’s degree in piano performance from the the Juilliard School of Music, studying with the Mme. Rosina Lhévinne. Subsequent studies were with Wolfgang Rosé, a pupil of Schnabel and Gieseking.
Steinberg has played in recital, as soloist with orchestra and as chamber musician in England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Portugal and Poland, as well as in the United States. His recordings include the complete 32 Beethoven piano sonatas on the Elysium label.
Wu is assistant professor of music at UD, where is teaches cello and directs the University Orchestra. Born in Shanghai, Wu received his early musical training at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. At the age of 18, he was the first post-Cultural Revolution cellist to win the Shanghai Spring Music Festival Contest. Wu continued his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice Gendron on the Franco-China Artist Exchange Program and completed his graduate studies at Boston University and the University of Minnesota.
Wu has been the featured performer on numerous television and radio broadcasts such as the WGBH-Boston Classical Performances and Minnesota Public Radio Live from Landmark Center, as well as on stations in Chicago, Paris, Taipei and Shanghai. For information, call 831-2577.
April job fair to highlight opportunities on campus
Interested in working at UD? The University of Delaware Job Fair will be held from 5-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, in Multipurpose Rooms A and B of the Trabant University Center.
The University will be recruiting for full-time, part-time and temporary positions in areas of office and library support, instructional technology, financial fields, transportation, skilled and unskilled labor and professional positions.
For more information, call 831-2171 or visit the web site at [www.udel.edu/udjobs].
J.P. Morgan biographer to speak to Library Associates
Jean Strouse, author of the acclaimed biography Morgan: American Financier, will speak at the annual dinner of the University of Delaware Library Associates, Tuesday evening, April 25, at Arsht Hall in Wilmington. Her topic will be “J. Pierpont Morgan: The Financier and His Library.”
A Radcliffe graduate and the author of Alice James, a biography of the sister of Henry and Williams James that won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, Strouse decided her next project would be to write about one of the country’s 19th-century financiers. She said she felt Morgan would be the most interesting, but that too much had been already been written about him.
However, she said, when she looked at the shelf of books about J. Pierpont Morgan, she discovered most of them were caricatures, depending on the author’s viewpoint, either depicting him as a rapacious scoundrel or adulating him. “I decided there was room for another book about Morgan on the shelf,” she said.
In the introduction to Morgan, which was 15 years in the making, Strouse writes how she learned that the Pierpont Morgan Library had vaults of memorabilia about Morgan, including his childhood diaries, adult letters, business correspondence, photographs and files of his purchases of art, which no one had thoroughly investigated. Her extensive research and sleuthing led to more and more information.
“Eventually I began to write,” she says in the book, “and got about halfway through a draft before I saw it wasn’t working. Months later, I found out why. From the outset, I had found Morgan’s detractors more convincing than his champions...they reflected popular American assumptions (including my own) about the ‘robber baron’ chapter of our history... and that was not what I found. The evidence didn’t support the picture....”
He was, she wrote, “the most powerful banker in the world” with a personality that was “made of contradictions… sociable and shy, deliberate and impulsive, ingenuous and shrewd, domineering and flexible...inscrutable and deeply sentimental.”
The result of all her research and writing, according to the Boston Globe, is a “thoroughly documented, conscientiously nonpartisan and round life of the financial colossus John Pierpont Morgan.”
The Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote, “no one else has told the story of Pierpont Morgan in the detail, depth and understanding of Jean Strouse...” adding that her research, as recounted in The New Yorker was a “riveting detective story in itself.”
In the biography, Strouse interweaves Morgan’s personal life with his business wheelings and dealings–his poor health as a child; his relationship with his outspoken and dictatorial father, financier and banker Junius Morgan; his first wife, Amelia Osborn, who died shortly after their marriage of tuberculosis; his second marriage and children; his loyalty to the Episcopal church; his homes, his travels, his artwork, and his financial maneuverings.
Part of the interest of the book is the parade of well-known (and lesser known) personages who figured in Morgan’s life–from Thomas Edison to Theodore Roosevelt.
Based on her research about J. P. Morgan’s intervention to prevent an economic disaster during the panic of 1907, Strouse wrote another article for The New Yorker, “The Brilliant Bailout,” which compared it with modern day economic crises.
At the Library Associates dinner, Strouse will talk about the Pierpont Morgan Library, the scene of the 1907 rescue operation and other momentous occasions in his life.
Strouse, who was granted access to the papers of J. Pierpont Morgan as well as to never-before used primary sources, paints a full portrait of the financier.
According to Susan Brynteson, director of libraries, sponsorship to assist with the evening’s expenses has been supplied by J.P. Morgan.
The cost of the dinner is $58 for members, and $75 for guests. Corporate tables are available.
After her talk, Strouse will sign copies of Morgan, which will be available for purchase.
For information or to obtain an invitation to the dinner, contact the Office of the Director by phone at 831-2231 or by e-mail at [UDLA@udel.edu].
New space for credit
UDEL Credit Union staff members at their new office are (from left) Anna Brown, Diana Moyer and Trudy Yingling.
The office recently moved from 325 Academy St. to its permanent home at 149 Perkins Student Center, located off the hallway leading from the parking lot on the south side of the building.
Hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. An open house–with door prizes and refreshments–will be held during business hours throughout the week of April 18.
For information, call 831-2327.
March of Dimes’ WalkAmerica
scheduled April 30 in Newark
UD’s effervescent mascot YoUDee will be on hand to greet, meet and send off participants in the March of Dimes WalkAmerica on Sunday, April 30. Registration for the combined Newark and Wilmington 15K (9 mile) walk will begin at 9 a.m., with the walk starting at 10 a.m., beginning and ending at the Delaware Field House.
The first 50 participants registering at the UD table who have raised $25 or more in pledges will receive a free, specially designed T-shirt featuring YoUDee and Baby Blue.
The annual fundraiser’s mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, low birth weight and infant mortality. Since 1970, WalkAmerica has raised in excess of $1 billion for this effort.
Registration forms to join the UD WalkAmerica team are being distributed throughout the campus.
This year, the Greek community has made the event part of Greek Week, and many students are expected to join the walkers, according to Susan Koski, Office of the Executive Vice President.
For more information or registration forms, call Koski at 831-2200 or send e-mail to [skoski.udel.edu].
Sounds of Gershwin to fill Mitchell Hall on April 15
Pianist Leon Bates, soprano Sebronette Barnes and bass baritone Cedric Cannon will perform “Gershwin by Request” at a special concert at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 15, in Mitchell Hall.
Tickets are $6 for students and children, $8 for UD faculty, staff and alumni and senior citizens and $10 for the general public.
In the spirit of celebration, this trio presents a sparkling program of Gershwin’s vocal and piano music, complete with “Rhapsody in Blue,” selections from Porgy and Bess and such classics as “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” and “Strike Up the Band.”
Bates is a familiar figure in the international concert scene. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfornica dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He has toured Europe, where he performed Gershwin with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
For more information, call 831-2204.
Nikki Giovanni, step show & more at Black Arts Fest
The University of Delaware’s annual Black Arts Festival, with activities focused around creative expression from members of the African Diaspora, has been a regular event for more than 20 years on the Newark campus.
This year’s lineup of events, all open to the public, include traditional favorites, such as the Richard Wilson Step Show, and new events, including an appearance by noted poet and activist Nikki Giovanni.
The festival opens on Friday, April 7, with the annual Variety Show, a talent expo geared toward students and alumni that traditionally features local talent from the Newark and Wilmington community, as well as performers who are current UD students and alumni. The event will be held in Mitchell Hall, where doors will open at 7 p.m. and the show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Ticket are $3 for students and $4 for general public.
On Tuesday, April 11, guest lecturer Debra Harper will discuss “Challenging Stereotypes: Slavery and the African-American Potter, Dave.” Her talk is part of the Center for Black Culture Faculty Lecture Series and is cosponsored by Winterthur Museum, Bell Atlantic and the DuPont Co. Free and open to the public, the program begins at 4 p.m. at the center.
The annual Richard “Dick” Wilson Step Show, featuring National Pan-Hellenic Council step teams, will be held at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 15, in the Bob Carpenter Center. Ticket prices range from $10 to $15. This event is cosponsored with the National Pan-Hellenic Council of the University of Delaware.
On Wednesday, April 26, the Center for Black Culture will host the annual Pan-African Outdoor Festival, featuring food, music and vendors representing members of the African, Caribbean and African-American communities. The free event will be held from 1-5 p.m., behind Brown and Sypherd residence halls and is cosponsored with the Black Student Union, the Caribbean Student Alliance and the Delaware African Student Association.
On Friday, April 28, the festival’s annual concert with a featured artist will be held. Details will be announced at a later date.
The annual Gospelrama, featuring the UD Gospel Choir and special guest artists, will be presented at 5 p.m., Sunday, April 30, in Mitchell Hall. Tickets are $5 for UD students and $7 for the general public.
The Black Arts Festival will conclude with a lecture by author, poet and activist Nikki Giovanni at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 8, in Mitchell Hall. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for general public, and group pricing will be available. The event is cosponsored with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
All festival events are sponsored by the Center for Black Culture and Cultural Programming Advisory Board. Tickets for events that require them can be purchased at UD box offices in the Bob Carpenter Center and the Trabant University Center.
For more information, call 831-2991, visit the center’s web site at [www.udel.edu/CBC] or send e-mail to [cbc-mail@udel.edu].
Earth Day events April 22
Students for the Environment will hold its second annual Earth Day Celebration from 1-6 p.m., Saturday, April 22, on the North Mall between Main Street and Delaware Avenue.
The free public event will feature musicians David Rovics, Karen Goldberg and Soul Creation, performing throughout the day.
For more information about the annual Earth Day celebration, call 266-0197.
Fans of Widespread Panic can see them at The Bob
Widespread Panic, not mass anxiety but a band that’s been on tour for 15 years and released six albums, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 14 in the Bob Carpenter Center.
One of music’s most successful touring acts, the band is known for its live performances and instrumentals. A critic in The Boston Globe wrote, “This is a hard-driving band that doesn’t know how to do things halfway,” and a review of a recent show in Houston reads, “Widespread Panic greets its hard-core followers with a concert they won’t soon forget. The atmosphere was like a weird mix of the ’60s and ’90s, with a laid-back, easygoing vibe that brought themes of peace, love and happiness back for at least one night. Widespread Panic’s sound is an eclectic fusion of blues, country, rock, funk, reggae and other genres of music that attracts fans of all ages.”
Over the years, Widespread Panic’s tours have won it a sizable following. During the past two years, the band has played over 200 sold-out shows to audiences around the world, earning it a front page story in The Wall Street Journal for its
“homespun” success in the music industry. When it released Til the Medicine Takes, 100,000 fans from across the country came to the group’s free concert announcing the release of the album.
Widespread Panic’s albums include Space Wrangler, Everyday, Ain’t Live Grand and Light Fuse Get Away.
Priced at $22.50 for the general public and $20 for students, tickets are available at UD box offices at the Trabant University Center and the Bob Carpenter Center. They also are available through Ticketmaster by calling 984-2000, where a service charge may be added.
For more information on the group’s UD appearance, call UD1-HENS.
Marine scientist will discuss sea voyage at Lewes lecture
In January, UD marine biologist Craig Cary led an international team of scientists on Extreme 2000–the first deep-sea expedition of the century–to underwater geysers called hydrothermal vents over a mile deep in the Sea of Cortés off Mexico. During the 11-day expedition, Dr. Cary and his team took turns submerging to the seafloor in Alvin, the submarine that discovered the wreck of the Titanic. With Alvin’s help, the scientists explored the super-hot vents and their bizarre community of organisms, from weird 4-foot tubeworms to ancient bacteria.
At 7 p.m., Thursday, April 13, in 104 Cannon Laboratory, in the College of Marine Studies in Lewes, Cary will share the expedition’s discoveries in a free, public lecture, “A Voyage to Life’s Extreme: The Deep Sea.” The hour-long talk will be followed by light refreshments.
This presentation will kick off the third annual Ocean Currents Lecture Series, which will be held once a month at the Lewes campus through September.
Hydrothermal vents are of great interest to scientists because they are among the most extreme environments on Earth. Water as hot as 750° F, filled with a stew of toxic chemicals, rockets out of the vents. The organisms that inhabit vent sites not only thrive in these high-temperature, chemical-rich conditions, but they also can withstand the tremendous pressure from the weight of the vast ocean above them and live in total darkness.
“Vent organisms have evolved the ability to live and thrive under extremes of pressure, temperature, and chemistry,” Cary said. “Their ability to do this involves special biochemical adaptations that, if understood, could be used to improve many industrial processes, for example those used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. Already, several enzymes from vent microorganisms have been borrowed to help biomedical researchers accelerate their capabilities in the lab,” he notes. “We believe there are many more important resources to be discovered–all we need is the time to look.”
Cary said he got hooked on marine science at the age of 15, thanks to a teacher with a special interest in marine biology.
To share the Extreme 2000 expedition with students and the public, he worked with outreach staff at the college and with PBS station WHYY-TV, who developed a resource guide, video and web site for the project. Video clips, photos, and journals of the scientists’ findings were uploaded daily to the web site [www.ocean.udel. edu/deepsea].
A highlight of the expedition was a conference call between Cary working on the seafloor in the submarine Alvin, and students in 11 schools in Delaware, New Jersey, and California.
To reserve a seat, contact the college at 645-4279.
Designing new classrooms topic of satellite program
Learn about the newest approaches to classroom design during a live satellite event, free and open to the public, at noon, Thursday, April 13, in 311 Pearson Hall.
Technology, the Internet and the Americans with Disabilities Act are all relatively new, and they all have an impact on classroom design. Coupled with expanding enrollments and decaying campus infrastructure, these phenomena help explain why so many colleges are faced with challenging questions when designing and building new classroom space. But the questions is where to begin.
This live, interactive event will provide information about the newest approaches to classroom design. Participants will hear from designers, and see some new facilities and get ideas to implement on their respective campuses. Also during the telecast, viewers can phone, fax or e-mail questions the panel and presenters.
The program is sponsored by the Information Access Laboratory, DreAmS, Information Technologies/User Services, Center for Teaching Effectiveness and the ADA Office.
Registration is required through e-mail at [ia-info@ee. udel.edu] or by calling 831- 2485.
Wellness programs to focus on diabetes and happiness
Two upcoming Wellness programs are being offered to UD employees. Dr. Jim Lenhard, Christiana Care, will present a program on diabetes from noon-1 p.m., Wednesday, April 12, in 127 Memorial Hall. The speaker will discuss how to prevent the onset of diabetes, identify risk factors for developing diabetes, and effectively treat diabetes. Cost is 10 Wellness Dollars.
Owner of the Happiness Clinic and author of Reclaiming Your Happiness, Diane Kolodzinski will present a program based on her book from noon-1 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, in 208 Gore Hall.
Several years ago, Kolodzinski knew her life was off course, and she needed a change. Even though she had a caring husband, two beautiful children and a successful career, she felt stressed, overwhelmed and dissatsified with her life. She began researching happiness and discovered that one-third of all Americans were in the same spot she was– unhappy. Over a five-year period, she slowly engineered a new and happier way to live. Now she is dedicated to helping others find the same peaceful and happy lifestyle.
Cost is 10 Wellness Dollars. All attendees will be eligible for a drawing to win a gift certificate from Perry Anthony Design Group. To register, call the Employee Wellness Center at 831-8388 or go to the web site at [www.udel.edu/wellness].
Art museum exhibition features several UD artists
University artists are well represented in the Delaware Art Museum’s exhibition, Biennial 2000, featuring more than 100 works by 45 regional artists who are breaking ground in painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, video projections, site-specific installations and performance art. The exhibition runs through June 4 at the museum in Wilmington.
The works were selected by a Delaware Art Museum team of curators, who visited galleries, festivals, studios and other exhibits and reviewed hundreds of works of art before making their final selections.
Among the UD artists involved in the exhibition are
- Randy Bolton, art, whose sculpture is of protruding planes covered with computer-generated images based on children’s book and text illustrations;
- Michael Johnson, AS 2000, whose large-scale open wood or steel abstract sculptures recall inexplicable machines or toys, which offer the potential for viewer-activated movement;
- René Marquez, art, whose works on paper/painting include autobiographical books with drawing and text, as well as free-hanging paintings;
- David Meyer, University Gallery, whose conceptual sculpture explores the interaction of nature and culture by combining images and text and exposing them to the natural elements; and
- Stephen Tanis, art, whose realistic paintings present contemporary versions of Biblical themes.
Chamber music on April 9
Intermusica, a free concert of chamber music featuring unusual instrumental combinations, will be presented at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 9, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. This is the second concert in a series of a chamber music programs directed by faculty member Cynthia Carr and sponsored by the Department of Music.
The program encompasses music from the Baroque period through the modern era by Carl Reinecke, Johann Molter, Malcolm Arnold, Johann Kalliwoda and Franz Doppler on flute, clarinet, horn, oboe, bassoon, guitar and piano.
The wrong date was listed in the last issue of UpDate. For information, call 831-2577.
Cosmo Club hosts annual night of entertainment
Travel the world in one night at the University of Delaware’s International Night on Saturday, April 22. Sponsored by the Cosmopolitan Club, the annual event features various performers from around the globe.
Open to the public, the evening begins at 7 p.m. in Mitchell Hall. Tickets are $3 for club members and $5 for nonmembers.
According to Narmada Gunawardena, cultural director of the club, the evening will include dancers from various countries performing traditional dances as well as selections by musicians. Gunawardena said the evening will also feature martial artists.
The Cosmopolitan Club is an international student organization, with members from all over the world. The group promotes social interaction among foreign and American students.
For information, call 369-9713 or send e-mail to [narmada@ udel.edu].
Tri-State Bird Rescue to hold 5K run & walk on April 20
Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research (TSBR) is holding its fifth annual 5K run and walk on Thursday, April 20.
The event will be held at Creek Road, at the end of North College Avenue, in Newark, with parking behind the Colorado Ski Company. Registration will begin at 5:30 p.m., and the run will begin at 6:30 p.m., immediately followed by the walk.
The cost is $12 for preregistered adults and includes a free T-shirt. The cost is $15 for adults the day of the event, with a limited number of T-shirts; and $2 for children 6 and under. There is a $1 discount for TSBR members.
Pledges must be turned in the day of the run and walk. Prizes will given to the three top fundraisers and walkers and runners in different categories.
Other TSBR spring events include a Volunteer Opportunities Night, 6:45-7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 13; a Spring Open House, 1-5 p.m., Sunday, May 7; and a Training Workshop for Nursery Volunteers to learn how to care for baby wild birds, from noon-5 p.m., Sunday, May 21. (A registration fee is required for the workshop.) All programs will be held at Tri-State’s Frink Center for Wildlife, 110 Possum Hollow Rd., Newark.
For information, call 737-9543 or visit the web site at [www. tristatebird.org]. |
