Vol. 20, No. 15 |
May 3, 2001 |
Anti-smoking Tobacco Slam scheduled May 19 in Newark
Students in the Department of Health and Exercise Science's recreation leadership course, taught by Jack O'Neill, will host a family fair for Newark families called Newark Tobacco Slam 2001. The fair will be held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, May 19, on the Park Place intramural field at the corner of Park Place and South College Avenue.
In case of rain, the event will move to the back gym of the Carpenter Sports Building. Students have been working with Linda Smith, program coordinator of the Employee Wellness Center, to offer a variety of fun and educational activities for school-aged children and their families. Featured speaker will be Sandy Queen, who is known nationally for her work with teens, teachers and parents in the area of wellness and self-esteem. She uses humor to deliver her message in a meaningful and entertaining way, and she will conduct several short presenta tions throughout the day for both children and adults.
Members of the University community and their families are invited to attend this free event. Entertainment includes a moon bounce, face painting and carnival activities. Jungle John and the Juggling Hoffmans also will perform. The College of Health and Nursing Science is working in conjunction with Tobacco Free Delaware and the American Lung Association to raise awareness among the youth of Newark about the dangers of tobacco use. For information, call 831-8853. UD to host conference about status of women in Delaware The state of women's health in Delaware and other issues of concern to women will be addressed when policy makers and volunteers from throughout the state gather at the University of Delaware on Monday, May 14, for the Status of Women in Delaware Conference. The event, with honorary chairperson Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, begins at 2 p.m. in Clayton Hall. Cost is $25 for the public conference, and advanced registration is required only for those who wish to participate in the evening dinner. Others may register at the door and pay a $10 registration fee. The conference was organized as a result of the report The Status of Women in Delaware, issued in the fall of 2000, which, among other things, gave the state a grade of D- in the category of women's health and well-being. Issued by the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, D.C., the report also gave the state only average marks in women's employment and earnings and political participation by women. Marian Lief Palley, women's studies and political science and international relations at UD, chaired the advisory committee for the Status of Women report and, along with Jessica Schiffman, women's studies, organized the conference. "Once the report came out there was a groundswell of concern and we realized we needed something to sustain the momentum," Palley explained. "We thought of the conference as a way of bringing policy influentials, volunteers and the public sector together to lend their voices and influence public policy as it relates to women in Delaware. "Those who come to the conference will have a voice. They will be able to participate in actual working sessions to develop a women's agenda– something that allows us to say these are the problems and this is how we would like to see them addressed." Topics for the working sessions, all drawn from the report, include political participation, health and well being, employment and earnings, violence against women, economic autonomy, gay and lesbian rights and reproductive rights. Also featured in the program will be a talk by Heidi Hartmann, director of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, who will give the keynote address before dinner. For more information or to register for the conference, call the Women's Studies Program at 831-2942. Bike-to-Work Day set May 17 If you like to bike, leave your car at home and Pedal pools will be formed from different locations around Newark and will meet in the morning at the Trabant University Center, where T-shirts will be distributed and a photograph will be taken. Any employee wishing to join in a pedal pool may call Jim Grimes, Public Safety, at 831-4136 or send e-mail to [jgrimes@udel.edu]. Concert to feature classic jazz hits in Loudis Recital Hall The UD Jazz Ensemble II, directed by Tom Palmer, will offer a free concert at 8 p.m., Monday, May 7, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. The concert will welcome the spring season with the Tommy Wolf composition "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" and Count Basie's classic "April in Paris." In addition to directing the Jazz Ensemble II, Palmer is drumset instructor and a member of UD's Faculty Jazz Ensemble. He performs with a variety of small combos, big bands, theatre and symphony orchestras, as well as the popular dance band, Lavender. Palmer has appeared in various jazz festivals, including Wilmington's Jazz in the Village, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival and the Rehoboth Jazz Festival and also has performed on many occasions with the Baltimore Symphony. Palmer's credits include recording with the Baltimore Symphony and Royal Palm Steel Band. For information, call 831-2577.
First Southern Delaware golf outing scheduled on June 5 The first annual University of Delaware Southern Golf Outing, benefi ting student scholarships, will be held on Tuesday, June 5, at Baywood Greens, in Long Neck.
"The sponsors get publicity and the opportunity to entertain clients," Richard J. Ruggerio, public relations, said. "The true winners are the students. Individuals can help by supporting, sponsoring and participating in our event. Volunteers also are a major part of any successful event, and we welcome that kind of participation as well." A number of volunteers are needed, he said, to help with guest sign-ins, award ceremony activities and staffing contest holes where special situations, such as the making of a hole-in-one, require verification. In addition to benefiting a worthy cause, the golf outing gives participants a chance to discover the beauty of the 1998 course designed by Ault, Clark & Associates and built by Larry Dewitt and owner Robert Tunnell. Alumni Tunnell, BE '77, and golf pro Brian Burrows, AS '95, add a nice UD presence to the course, located just off Route 24, about 15 minutes from Rehoboth Beach, midway between Rehoboth and Indian River Bays. Jay Mankus, in a review of the course for TravelGolf.com, wrote, "In Long Neck, Del., Rob and Gail Tunnell of the Tunnell Companies have used every ounce of technology to create Baywood Greens: a 27-hole golfer's paradise." While golfers will enjoy the mature bent grass fairways and greens, gardening enthusiasts will want to inspect the more than 200,000 plants, shrubs and trees that grace the 750 acres at Baywood Greens. In addition to offering guests a chance to play golf on a course that combines natural beauty with the latest in construction technology, the tournament gives UD an opportunity to recognize its 6,000-plus alumni who call Southern Delaware home. "We wanted to welcome our friends and alumni in Kent and Sussex with a special event," Ruggerio said. "Baywood Greens is new and exciting and one of the finest golf courses in the area. "It's a great course and a great cause," he said. Kent and Sussex county residents who wish to help UD students and enjoy a day on the links should reserve a playing spot early, because tournament play is limited to 112 participants. For information, call 831-2791 or send e-mail to [golfhen@udel.edu]. 2001 Employee Benefits Fair set May 8 in Trabant Center The 2001 UD Benefits Open Enrollment period is schedule The annual Benefits Fair will be held from 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday, May 8, in Multipurpose Rooms B and C of the Trabant University Center. Representatives from several organizations will attend to answer questions and provide materials about UD benefit programs and services. In addition to Benefits Services, other participants include the Blood Bank of Delaware, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Coventry Health Care, Dining Services, Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, Family Workplace Connection, Fidelity Investments, Intracorp, Liberty Mutual, MetLife, Retirement Benefits, Sheppard Pratt (Faculty and Staff Assistance Program), Social Security Administration, Office of Pensions State of Delaware, TIAA-CREF, TIAA Life and Disability Insurance, UD Credit Union, University Wellness Program, Academy of Lifelong Learning, WSFS (direct deposit) and Express Scripts. The fair also will offer door prizes, refreshments and giveaways. For additional information, call 831-2913. Washington Post' editor to speak about foreign policy David Hoffman, foreign editor of The Washington Post, and UD alumnus, will speak as part of the University's "Global Agenda 2001" lecture series. His talk will begin at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, May 10, in Clayton Hall. Hoffman recently concluded a stint as Moscow bureau chief, and he brings his experience as former Jerusalem bureau chief and correspondent covering foreign policy during the James Baker years at the U.S. State Department. He joined The Post in 1982 and covered the White House during the Reagan and Bush Sr. presidencies. Hoffman is currently finishing a book, The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, to be published in January 2002. From 1975-77, Hoffman worked for the Wilmington News-Journal newspaper. From 1977-78, he was a correspondent for Capitol Hill News Service in Washington, D.C. From 1979-1982, he was Washington correspondent for the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury-News and economics correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Hoffman has received the Aldo Beckman Award, the Merriam Smith Award, the Gerald R. Ford Award and the SAIS-Novartis Prize for Excellence in International Journalism.
Arts students to display works Two exhibits at UD The "Master of Fine Arts" exhibit will be on display from May 11-26 in the University Gallery in Old College and in the Department of Art Gallery, 102 Recitation Hall. For information, call 831- 2244.
Undergraduate symposium to feature student research The Undergraduate Research Symposium, which serves as the culmination of the senior thesis course for the honors degree with distinction and degree with distinction students, takes place on Honors Day Weekend, the morning of Saturday, May 5, at the Perkins Student Center. This event recognizes exceptional research work at the undergraduate level and promotes student awareness of undergraduate research possibilities. This year's event will feature the largest number of senior thesis candidates chosen to present their research, and two sets of talks have been scheduled. Three groups will present oral presentations from 9:15-10:15 a.m., concurrently with the poster/exhibit session. At 10:30 a.m., the plenary session will begin. It will feature a keynote address by Robert Stevenson, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, who earned a degree with distinction from UD in 1986. In the second set of talks, from 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., students will present their work in six concurrent sessions and answer questions from the audience. The University community is invited to the symposium, and attendance will be especially beneficial for those students contemplating research and/or an enriched degree and for faculty sponsoring undergraduate researchers. For more information and a complete program visit the web site at [http://www.udel. edu/UR/2001SymProg.html]. Special events planned on National Health Fitness Day The Employee Wellness Center and Department of Recreation Department have scheduled events to help UD employees mark National Employee Health and Fitness Day, which occurs on Wednesday, May 16. Each spring, employees across the country take time out during the work day to enjoy fitness activities together. This year's events at UD are scheduled over the noon hour in two locations. A one-mile "prediction" walk will begin in front of the Morris Library, with sign-in at 12:15 p.m. Participants will be asked to estimate how long they think it will take them to walk one mile. Wellness staff members will time participants on a route around the South Mall area.
The Department of Recreation will host a 5K Fun Run and 2-Mile Fun Walk along River Road starting at 12:20 p.m. The route winds along the White Clay Creek and starts at the bottom of the hill on River Road, which is just north of the intersection of North College and Cleveland avenues. Time will be kept for participants' information, but competitive standings will not be taken. Both events are free but pre-registration is required. Participants may register until May 15 by calling the Employee Wellness Center at 831-8388 or by registering online at [www.udel.edu/wellness]. Ensemble to present concert using period instruments The Collegium Musicum, directed by Russell Murray, will present a free concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 9, in Bayard Sharp Hall.
The Early Brass Ensemble will present music of Girolamo Frescobaldi performed on cornetts and sackbuts. Dance music of the 16th century will be performed on crumhorns (an early double reed instrument), and the Consort of Voyces will present Florentine carnival songs and laude (popular devotional songs), as well as light-hearted villanescas. The singers will be joined by recorders and cittern. The Baroque Chamber Ensemble will highlight the French and Italian tastes of the Baroque era with trio sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli and one of the Concerts Royaux of François Couperin. These will be presented by an ensemble of violins, flutes, oboe, bassoon, cello and harpsichord. In addition, solo harpsichord music by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre will be featured. For information, call 831- 2577. Historian to lecture tonight about religious tolerance Stuart B. Schwartz, the George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, will speak at 7:30 tonight in Multipurpose Room C of the Trabant University Center on "Each in His Own Law: Religious Toleration in the Luso-Hispanic World, 1500-1700." The free public lecture is part of the Bosley-Warnock Lecture Series, sponsored by UD's history department. Schwartz is a leading authority on Colonial Latin America and the author of many publications, including Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court His numerous honors and awards include the Bolton Prize in Latin American History and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Additionally, Schwartz has served as editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review and is currently working on a major new project on dissidence in the Luso-Hispanic world. The lecture is funded by gifts from history department alumni Deidre Bosley and David Warnock and by the Latin American Studies Program and the UD Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events. For information on his Newark appearance, call 831-8413. Worldwatch researcher to speak on energy Anne Platt McGinn, a research associate with the Worldwatch Institute, will be the final speaker in the Contemporary Issues in Environmental and Energy Policy colloquium series. Her talk is scheduled at noon, today, in the Ewing Room of the Perkins Student Center. Her talk is entitled, "Stepping off the Toxics Treadmill." As a Worldwatch researcher, McGinn investigates and writes about fisheries, oceans and environmental health issues. She is a regular contributor to the institute's annual publications, Vital Signs and State of the World, and has written Worldwatch position papers on safeguarding the health of oceans, conserving fisheries and protecting jobs, and how environmental and social disruptions trigger disease. Her research has been published in World Watch magazine on topics such as water quality and poor sanitation, the global tobacco epidemic and the growing emergence of noncommunicable diseases in developing countries. For information, call 831-8405. |
Local middle and high school students who are members of the KickButts Generation will provide peer education sessions on various tobacco-related issues. Trooper T from the Delaware State Police will present an anti-smoking message, and UD coaches will promote the importance of choosing a healthy lifestyle.
participate in UD's Bike-to-Work Day, Thursday, May 17, as part of the League of American Bicyclists' Bike-to-Work Week, scheduled May 13-19.
The event gets under way with check-in and practice time beginning at 10 a.m., followed by lunch at 11:30 a.m. and a shotgun start at 1 p.m.? A reception and awards party will begin at 5 p.m.
d through May 18. A supplement detailing benefit options and highlights for the new plan year is included in this issue of UpDate. Employees are receiving their enrollment materials through Campus Mail now.
during May will feature artworks by students completing their bachelor and master of fine arts degrees. The Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibit will be shown May 4-6 and May 11-13 in the Department of Art Studios in Old College. This exhibit also will be on display from May 17-20 in the Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center.
Winning participants will be those who come closest to their predicte d time. Water bottles will be given to the first 40 walkers who sign in on the day of the walk, which kicks off at 12:25 p.m.
The UD ensemble performs music of the M edieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras using period instruments and early performance techniques. The Collegium includes three ensembles–Early Brass Ensemble, Consort of Voyces and the Baroque Chamber Ensemble. The program features music from the 16th through 18th centuries, concentrating on the music of France and Italy.
of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609–1751, Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil, Sugar Plantations and the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835, Slaves, Peasants and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery and Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the Americas, with Frank Salomon.