UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 6, Page 4
October 5, 1995
Up and coming
Space celebration features astronaut Nancy Currie
The University's fifth annual Celebration of Space: A Day to
Explore Physics, Astronomy and Space Science will be held from 8:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 21, in Sharp Laboratory.
NASA astronaut Nancy Currie will be featured speaker. She has
logged more than 450 hours in space, having been a mission specialist
on the 1993 flight to retrieve a European satellite and the recent
flight in July to deploy a NASA tracking and data relay satellite. She
will give a general interest talk on NASA and its space activities.
A native of Delaware, Maj. Currie received her bachelor's degree
in biological science from Ohio State University and her master's
degree in safety engineering from the University of Southern
California.
The day also will include presentations by members of the UD
Department of Physics and Astronomy on the use of multimedia and
Internet resources in teaching and research.
In addition, there will be laboratory tours and lecture-
demonstrations by selected physics instructors at all levels from high
school to the University. Information describing graduate research
opportunities, NASA-sponsored graduate fellowships at UD and
undergraduate research internships also will be presented.
Activities will begin with a continental breakfast and
registration from 8:30-9:30 a.m.
A registration fee of $5 will cover lunch and all activities.
Advanced registration is required.
For information, call 831-8116.
Teleconference on diversity to air
A series of free public teleconferences, entitled "Putting the
Pieces of Diversity Together," is scheduled through February.
The first program, "Affirmative Action Under Siege: What's at
Stake for Our Campuses, Careers and Communities?," will be presented
from 1-3 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11, in Pearson Hall auditorium.
The live, satellite telecast will focus on such topics as the
California initiative, the impact on college admissions for women and
students of color, minority faculty recruiting and hiring, debating
the issues on campus, the role of white women in the affirmative
action debate, how new rules will affect campus diversity and
multicultural programs and how job and career prospects for graduating
students will be affected.
Among the seven panel members will be representatives of the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Organization
for Women, the National Association of Colleges and Employers and the
American Association for Affirmative Action.
Upcoming programs in the series include
* "Educating Students with Disabilities: A Shared
Responsibility," 1:30-3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25, in
Pearson Hall auditorium;
* "Multicultural Education: Valuing Diversity in the
Classroom," 1-3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3, in Room 006 Willard
Hall Education Building; and
* "Global Education: Bringing the World into the Classroom," 1-
3 p.m., Friday, Feb. 23, in Pearson Hall auditorium.
Dedicated to the late Barbara Rexwinkel, who was director of
housing assignment services, the programs are sponsored by the Campus
Diversity Unit of the Commission to Promote Racial and Cultural
Diversity, the centers for Intercultural Teacher Education and
Teaching Effectiveness and the offices of Student Life, Dean of
Students and International Programs and Special Sessions.
The series is free and open to the public. Parking is available
in the pay-to-park lot (#57) on Academy Street for all programs,
except the Nov. 3 session in the Willard Hall Education Building. On
that date, parking will be in lot #17 on Main Street.
Persons with disabilities may request accommodations by calling
831-2835 (voice), 831-4552 (TDD) or 831-2063 (fax).
Immigration topic of Oct. 19 talk
"The Immigration Argument: Should We Close the Door?" is the
topic of a talk by Mark Miller, professor of political science and
international relations at the University, scheduled for 7 p.m.,
Thursday, Oct. 19, in Room 529 of the Higher Education Building in
Georgetown. The talk is free and open to the public.
Miller, an editor of the International Migration Review, is an
internationally recognized authority on immigration,
The lecture, part of the College of Arts and Science Outreach
Program, is cosponsored by the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Program.
Faculty concerts in Loudis Hall
Cynthia Carr, horn, and Harvey Price, percussion, will be
featured during a free, public faculty recital at 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct.
8, in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
Price is a recent recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from
the Delaware State Arts Council.
Another concert will be presented by members of the Mendelssohn
String Quartet-Nick Eanet and Nicholas Mann, violas, and Marcy Rosen,
cello-with guest artists Vincent Marinelli, clarinet; Jon Gaarder,
bassoon; Cynthia Carr, horn; and Douglas Mapp, double bass.
The program, featuring works by Dohnanyi, Ravel and Beethoven,
will begin at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10, in the Loudis Recital Hall.
Tickets, at $7.50 for adults, $5 for UD faculty, staff and senior
citizens and $2 for students, may be purchased at the door or in
advance by calling 831-2204.
Art by students now on display
"New Works," an exhibit by new graduate students in art at the
University, is on view through Oct. 14 in the lobby gallery of Clayton
Hall.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Media and artists featured in the show are ceramics by Quentin
Olson; painting by Brent Adams, Kitt Pekarik and David Tischler;
photography by Jana Kopelentova-Rehak, Joseph Lee, Annu Matthew, Sean
McDevitt and Meret Scheidegger; printmaking by William Letvenko, James
Martinez and Pilar Perez; and sculpture by Carlos Yepes Jr. and Ron
Tremblay.
Gallery hours are 8 a. m.-9 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, and
8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Fridays. For variable weekend hours, call 831-1259.
For information, call 831-3063.
Quixote lecture scheduled Oct. 10
"'Whosoever humbleth himself...' -The Homily of the Quixote" is
the theme of the University's annual fall lecture in the Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures' Distinguished Scholars Series.
Robert L. Hathaway, Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the
Humanities at Colgate University, will present the talk at 7:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Room 206 of Kirkbride Lecture Hall.
Hathaway will discuss the issue of morality in Don Quixote and
will use the quotation from the book in which Don Quixote says,
"whosoever humbleth himself shall be exalted," to substantiate it as a
recurring theme that has an important development in the story.
Hathaway is author of Love in the Early Spanish Theatre, The
Villlancicos from the 'Cancionero' of Pedro Manuel Jimenez de Urrea
and a critical and annotated edition of Urrea's Penitencia de amor. He
has published numerous articles on Cervantes and has been the NEH
postdoctoral fellow in residence at Harvard University.
The lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and partially
supported by a grant from the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural
Activities and Public Events and a donation from the Valbuena
Institute of Spanish Literature Inc.
Wholly Moholy! interactive art
Wholly Moholy! is a special interactive design gallery at the
University for children ages 6 through adult, as part of the
University Gallery's exhibition of "Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: From Budapest
to Berlin 1914-1923."
In a hands-on environment, participants can choose from several
activities that teach basic principles created by Moholy-Nagy for
students at the Bauhaus, a German industrial design school.
Teachers or group leaders can arrange sessions in the Wholly
Moholy! gallery for adult-accompanied children, teens or adults.
Activities are not appropriate for children younger than 6 years of
age, and group tours are limited to 10 participants. Please allow
approximately two hours for group tours.
Two special children's workshops are planned in conjunction with
the exhibition on Saturdays, Oct. 28 and Nov. 11, for children ages 6-
12, accompanied by adults. The workshops are scheduled from 1-3 p.m.,
and cost is $5 per child. Workshop size is limited, and advanced
registration is required.
Wholly Moholy! is open through Dec. 17. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-
5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, and from 1-5 p.m., Saturdays and
Sundays. The gallery is closed on University holidays. Visitors with
special needs are encouraged to call l0 days in advance of their
visit.
For more information, to arrange a group tour or to register for
the workshops, call 831-8242 (voice), 831-4552 (TDD) or 831-4330
(fax).
Rehearsed reading aids Calhoun fund
A rehearsed reading of The Country Wife by William Wycherley will
be presented at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 5, in 110 Memorial Hall.
English department graduate students and faculty will present the
reading, which is held in memory of the late Thomas O. Calhoun,
professor of English. Contributions will be taken at the door for the
Calhoun Fund that benefits graduate students in the Department of
English.
Walt Whitman slide-lecture set
Jerome Loving, well-known scholar of American literature, will
present a slide-lecture, "Whitman on Broadway," at 4 p.m., Monday,
Oct. 9, in Room 112 of Memorial Hall.
Loving, a professor of English at Texas A&M, is writing a
critical biography of the poet.
Loving has been a senior Fulbright lecturer at the Sorbonne and
also at Leningrad State University in Russia.
His publications include Civil War Letters of George Washington
Whitman, Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor, Emerson,
Whitman and the American Muse, Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second
Story, Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass,' Lost in the Customhouse:
Authorship in the American Renaissance and Frank Norris' 'McTeague.'
Sponsored by the Department of English, Loving's presentation is
free and open to the public.