Vol. 20, No. 6 |
Nov. 16, 2000 |
Open house today at new undergrad research home
According to Joan Bennett, coordinator of the program, the new facility will provide significant improvements in the program's ability to serve the approximately 600 students and 500 faculty who participate in undergraduate research. The new quarters include reading rooms where copies of senior theses, faculty and student publications and reference works are housed, and computers are available for student use. The front room can seat close to 50 people for students' research presentations. Video and computing equipment are planned for student use in preparing for these sessions. The room also can be used to showcase exhibits of student art and scientific posters. Individual offices will be available for students to meet with advisers, and there is a small conference room as well. The Undergraduate Research Program facilitates collaborations between faculty researchers and UD undergraduates. The program's services are open to all interested students and faculty. Most students earn research credit during the academic year, and many hold research stipends during the summers. The Program provides supply-and-expense grants to students and opportunities for conducting research abroad. It offers opportunities to present and publish research and assists students preparing senior theses for the Degree with Distinction and the Honors Degree with Distinction. Contemporary music fest will feature two free concerts
The Nov. 20 concert will spotlight music written by winners of the 2000 Regional Composers Competition, sponsored annually by the UD Department of Music. Preceding the performances of the winning pieces, the composers will discuss their works and the process of composition, and respond to audience questions. Winning compositions on the Nov. 20 program are Nepenthe for woodwind quintet by Evan Solot; Four New Yorkean Pictures for chamber ensemble by Roberto Perata; East Bay Shuffle for jazz ensemble by David Brackett; and Come to Me for choir by Jan Krzywicki. The works will be performed by flutist Eileen Grycky, guest artist and oboist Timothy Clinch, clarinetist Charles Salinger, hornist Cynthia Carr, bassoonist Jon Gaarder, pianist Julie Nishimura, the UD Chorale, directed by Paul Head, and the Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Jay Hildebrandt. On Nov. 21, the festival will feature the music of Jennifer Barker, who joined the UD music faculty this fall as assistant professor of composition and theory. Active on both sides of the Atlantic, the Scottish composer holds degrees from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania. She has won the Cambridge (England) Contemporary Music Festival Competition, as well as numerous other composition awards. Seven of her chamber works have been recorded and produced by Sony Music Studios in New York and released on the CRI label under the title Nyvaigs. Barker's music will be performed Nov. 21 by UD faculty and student artists, and will include music featured on her CD. The event is partially funded by Meet the Composer, a national non-profit organization, and by the UD Faculty Senate Committee for Cultural Activities and Public Events. For information, call 831-2577. Fall FSAP workshops will focus on divorce, grieving A program on "What Helps Children Cope with Their Parents' Divorce?" will be held from noon-1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 28, in 209 Trabant University Center. Valarie Molaison, a licensed psychologist and program director of Supporting K.I.D.D.S., will facilitate this workshop, which will focus on helping children cope with this difficult transition. "Handling the Holidays" will be presented from noon-1:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 7, in 209 Trabant University Center. Linda Wills, from Delaware Hospice Inc., will facilitate this workshop that focuses on how to cope with the loss of a loved one during this special time of year. The workshops are sponsored by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program. To register for either of the workshops, send e-mail to Julie Skeen at [jskeen@udel.edu], or call 831-2414. Participants may bring their lunches; beverages and dessert will be provided. Learn how to handle 'holidaze'
The program will be held from 12:05-12:55 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 6, in 126 MBNA America Hall. Cost is $10 Wellness Dollars. All attendees will be entered into a drawing for a free massage from the Delaware School of Shiatsu and Massage Therapy Clinic. For more information, call 831-8388. Latin percussion soloist to perform in Loudis Hall Percussionist Orlando Cotto will be featured as marimba soloist with the UD Percussion and Marimba Ensembles, directed by James P. Ancona, in a free public concert at 8 p.m., Monday, Nov. 27, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. A specialist in Latin percussion, Cotto will offer a program that includes a performance of Minoru Miki's Marimba Spiritual. Yamaha artist Cotto is the first percussionist to receive the artist diploma in the 100-year history of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. A master percussionist in both classical and jazz styles, Cotto makes solo marimba appearances in Puerto Rico and throughout the United States. A writer in the San Juan Star, called him "an artist of musical sensitivity and accomplished technique." Ancona is the assistant director of the Blue Hen Marching Band, director of the Basketball Pep Band and co-director of the Symphonic Band. Ancona also maintains an active performing career as a percussionist in the Philadelphia area. For information, call 831-2577. Choralfest 2000 to feature top high school vocalists The University of Delaware Department of Music will sponsor "Choralfest 2000" at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 19, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. This is UD's fourth annual choral festival, which brings in 50-60 high school vocal students to rehearse and perform with the members of the UD Chorale, directed by Paul Head. The high school students– representing school districts throughout Delaware–spend the weekend in residence at UD and experience firsthand what a university choral program is like. The UD Chorale is a select group of 50 vocal students. During the past decade, the ensemble has performed at New York's Lincoln Center, at the White House and on tour in Czechoslavakia. The theme of the Nov. 19 concert is "Poets and Peasants"– music inspired by the world's great poets and by peasant folksongs. The program includes Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine, Ralph Vaughan Williams' Full Fathom Five from Three Shakespeare Songs, Zdenek Lukas' Magna Est Vis Veritatis based on Cicero, French songs by Poulenc and songs based on Eastern European folksongs. Admission is $6 for adults and $for 3 students. Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at University box offices. Call UD1-HENS for box office information. For details on the performance, call 831- 2577. Habitat for Humanity sets annual 5-K race The University of Delaware chapter of Habitat for Humanity will sponsor its 11th annual 5-K race, beginning at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 2. The race begins at Indian Road off of West Park Place. Registration is $10 for UD students and $12 for the general public. For more information, call 837-8507. A cappella concert Friday The Y Chromes, a University of Delaware a cappella group, will present a concert at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 17, in Mitchell Hall. They will be joined by the Treblemakers, an a cappella group from the University of Maryland. Cost is $5 for UD students and $7 for all others. For more information, call 266-6829. |
The Undergraduate Research Program is celebrating its move to its new location at 188 Orchard Rd. with an open house for the campus community from 3:30-5:30 p.m., today, Nov. 16. Tours of the building and refreshments will be offered.
New Music Delaware: Festival of Contemporary Music will be presented by the University of Delaware Department of Music on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 20-21. Free concerts will be presented at 8 p.m., both days in the Loudis Recital Hall of Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
The Employee Wellness Center is offering a "Stress Management for the Holidaze" program that will include a menu of ideas to help participants get through the holiday season by teaching them to deal with stress in healthy ways. The program will feature experts talking about massage therapy, guided imagery, meditation, exercise and yoga.