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| Vol. 18, No. 29 | April 29, 1999 |
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The second annual University of Delaware Poetry Festival will be held Saturday, May 1, for students and teachers from Delaware high schools and middle schools.
A free, public reading by distinguished poet Judith Ortiz Cofer–at 3 p.m. in Room 101, Brown Laboratory–will highlight the program.
A native of Puerto Rico and now professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia, Cofer has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including Terms of Survival, The Line of the Sun, The Latin Deli and Reaching for the Mainland. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner and other publications. She received a PEN/Marth Albrand Special Citation and has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment of the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation.
The festival will begin with a welcome from President David P. Roselle at 10 a.m. in Room 127, Memorial Hall. Selected student poems will then be read by faculty members of the UD Professional Theatre Training Program.
The readings will be followed by workshops for students, led by area poets, and a workshop on teaching poetry for teachers, led by Susan Goodman and Fleda Brown Jackson, both English. Goodman has written several books on Edith Wharton, and her most recent book is a biography of the Virginia writer Ellen Glasgow, just published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Jackson's poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review and other publications. Her first book of poems won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and her second won the Verna Emery Prize. Her most recent book, The Devil's Child, was just published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
In the afternoon, Cofer will lead a workshop on teaching poetry for teachers while students attend writing workshops. The program will conclude with Cofer's poetry reading.
Participating schools include A.I. Du Pont, Brandywine, Mt. Pleasant, Cab Calloway, DelCastle, Dickinson, Laurel, Milford, Milton, Newark, Padua, Seaford, St. Andrews, George Read, Gauger-Cobbs, Hanby, Sussex Central, Ursuline and William Penn.
The festival and public reading are sponsored by the College of Arts and Science, Department of English, Office of Women's Affairs, Minority Scholars' Fund and Delaware Department of Education.
D#Sharps# to perform in Smith Hall May 1The D#Sharps#, the only all-female a cappella group at UD, will present a concert at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 1, in Room 140 of Smith Hall. Also tentatively scheduled to appear are the Hullabahoos, an all-male a cappella group from the University of Virginia.
For tickets or more information, call 454-0421 or visit the D#Sharps#' web page at <http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/dsharps/>.
Two events this spring will showcase research projects done by UD undergraduates. The first event is the Science, Engineering and Education Scholars Poster Session, sponsored by the University Honors Program, to be held from 2-4:30 p.m., Friday, April 30, in Multipurpose Rooms B and C in the Trabant University Center. This session highlights work-in-progress by juniors who served a 10-week apprenticeship as research assistants during the previous summer.
The second event is the Undergraduate Research Symposium, which is the culmination of the senior thesis course for Honors Degree and Degree with Distinction students, scheduled Saturday, May 8, of Honors Day Weekend, in the Perkins Student Center.
The symposium will begin with a session of scientific posters and art exhibits from 9-10:15 a.m. At 10:30 a.m., the plenary session will begin. It will feature a keynote address by Laurie Shannon, assistant professor of English, Duke University, who earned an Honors Degree from UD in 1984. From 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in concurrent sessions, students will present talks with an opportunity for questions from the audience.
These events are designed to recognize exceptional research work at the undergraduate level and to promote student awareness of undergraduate research possibilities.
The entire University community is invited to both these events. Attendance will be especially beneficial for those students contemplating research and/or an enriched degree and for those faculty sponsoring undergraduate researchers.
Art patrons can wander the Newark campus on Fridays this spring to see the latest works by students completing their bachelor's degrees. These exhibitions of culminating degree work are required for graduation. The fine art and applied art majors will be graduating with professional concentrations that include ceramics, drawing and painting, illustration, metals, photography, printmaking, sculpture and visual communication.
The series of Friday evening shows begins on Friday, April 30, with new shows opening on consecutive Fridays–May 7, 14 and 21. The shows, all free and open to the public, will be on view from 5-7:30 p.m. The exhibitions will be held in the Recitation Hall Gallery, in Room 206 of Recitation Hall, and in the hallways on the first and second floors of Recitation Hall; in Rooms 016, 116 and 203 of Taylor Hall; and in the Hollingsworth Gallery.
On Friday, April 30, participants will include David Beste, a printmaking major, and Robert Cordette, a painting and drawing major, who will both exhibit works in the Recitation Hall Gallery; John Richard Harris, a painting and drawing major, who will exhibit work in Room 203 of Taylor Hall, and Keely Bohner, a photography major, who will exhibit works in Room 016 of Taylor Hall.
Information on the May exhibitions will be featured in upcoming issues of UpDate. For more information on any of the shows, call 831-2242 or send e-mail to Vera Kaminski, art, at <vera@udel.edu>.
The annual Promotion and Tenure Workshop will be held from 2:30-4 p.m., Monday, May 10, in Room 304 Gore Hall.
This program will be presented by a panel of faculty who will discuss how to use promotion and tenure policies and procedures effectively; when to come up for promotion or tenure; and who external reviewers are and what they do.
Speakers will be John Cavanaugh, vice president for academic programs, who will serve as moderator; Janice Bibik, health and exercise sciences; Lori Pollock, computer information sciences; and Thomas Scott, psychology and neuroscience.
Sponsors of the workshop are the Commission on the Status of Women, the Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching Effectiveness. Registration is due by May 5. Call 831-4620 or send e-mail to Nancy Soccorso at <nsocc@udel.edu>.
For more information, please call the Office of Women's Affairs at 831-8063.
Current and past members of the University of Delaware's Women's Club and prospective members with a University connection interested in learning more about the organization are invited to the group's annual Spring Luncheon, planned from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 5, in Room 120 of Clayton Hall. Cost is $16 per person.
During the luncheon, Anita Puglisi will be honored with the Woman of the Year Award for her commitment to civic and political service activities. Plans will be unveiled for a new scholarship fundraising event and the UD student fashion design group Synergy will present a fashion show of original designs.
The University of Delaware Women's Club, founded in 1945, is open to all female members of the University community. The club's fundraising efforts support scholarships for women who need financial assistance to continue their education.
For more information, call 738-9340 or send e-mail to <jokmetz@udel.edu>.
Kosovo: Two Views" will be the topic of a program scheduled at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 4, in Room 529 of the Carter Partnership Building on the campus of Delaware Technical and Community College in Georgetown.
The free, public talk, sponsored by the UD's Parallel Program, will be presented by Mark Miller, political science and international relations and James Oliver, Unidel Professor of Political Science and International Relations.
For more information on the program, call (302) 855-1657 and ask for extension 267 or 280.
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa will present a free, public reading from his works at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, in Room 127, Memorial Hall.
Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994 for his book Neo Vernacular: New and Selected Poems. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, he is the author of 10 books of poems and coeditor, with Sascha Feinstein, of two anthologies on jazz poetry.
His most recent book of poems is Thieves of Paradise. Other titles include Copacetic, Dien Cai Dau, and I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head. His many awards include the Kingsley Tufts Award and the William Faulkner Prize. In addition, during his tour of duty in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star for his work on The Southern Cross, a military newspaper.
He earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of California at Irvine in 1980. Marilyn Hacker of The New Yorker calls him, "A poet whose work, over 10 years and many books, continues to grow in complexity and beauty."
For more information, call 831-1974.
Gen. Colin Powell will address school mentors and tutors at 5 p.m, Wednesday, May 19, in the Bob Carpenter Center. This event–sponsored by the Delaware Mentoring Council, located at the University of Delaware, and Delaware Gov. Thomas Carper–is free and by open to all persons in the state who mentor or tutor a child.
Powell also will speak to mentors and tutors in the Dover area from 7:30-8:30 p.m., the same night, in Memorial Hall Gymnasium at Delaware State University.
Tickets for both events are now available through all public and private schools in Delaware, as well as through Big Brothers/ Big Sisters. Mentors from across the state all are encouraged to obtain tickets and attend this celebration being held in their honor.
For more information, call the Delaware Mentoring Council at 831-0520.
Program on strength training for womenA program on "Strength Training for Women" will be offered from noon-1 p.m., Monday, May 17, in Room 006, Willard Hall Education Building. The session will debunk the myths about women and strength training; discuss the mental and physical benefits of strength training; and get participants started on their own personal strength building program. This will be the last Wellness presentation of the academic year. Cost is $10 Wellness Dollars.
The program will be presented by Allison Ahrens, instructor in strength training for women and a health promotion specialist. For information, call 831-8388.
Mark Miller, political science and international relations, will address the question, "Should There Be A Palestinian State?" at 7, tonight, in Room 205 Kirkbride Hall.
Miller will discuss Yasser Arafat's suggestion to establish the state by May 4, 1999, and other political figures' support for such a state.
His talk, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Muslim Student Association and the World Peace Club, both at UD. For more information, call 456-0510.
Four local bands will be playing for blood on Tuesday, May 11, when WVUD radio will sponsor a combination concert and blood drive for the Blood Bank of Delaware. Students and members of the public will be encouraged to donate blood inside the Perkins Student Center while local bands provide music outside.
Bands scheduled to perform include Live Like Hollywood, Alex and Nich, the Overtones and Bare Essentials.
For more information on the bands or the blood drive, call WVUD at 837-8423.
Change in foreign film series This weekend's feature in the University's International Film Series will be Little Voice, replacing Life is Beautiful, which had been scheduled originally.
The film will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Trabant University Center Theatre. For information, call 831-4066.
Secrets & Silence, a play presenting personal accounts of living with HIV/AIDS and the impact of silence on the community, will be performed at 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 5, in the Bacchus Theatre of Perkins Student Center. Seating will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, at $2 for students and $5 for the general public, are available at all UD box offices.
Secrets & Silence explores the painful cost that silence and secrets have had on those touched by HIV/AIDS. Through poetry, prose, music and movement the audience comes face to face with real people to share their pain, laughter, tears and courage.
The program is an original, cutting-edge work in-progress developed by UD alumni Kim Graham and Raye Jones Avery, and local journalist Rhonda Graham with music by George Bungy and choreography by Chauntee Andrews and Neil Heywood.
Dark Arts, a student performing group at UD, choreographed one of the dance numbers in the show.
The UD performance is sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., the Cultural Programming Advisory Board, the Center for Black Culture, the V-8s, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/A Matter of Degree program, Wellspring, the Visiting Women's Scholars Fund, the Commission on the Status of Women, the Office of Student Life and the Office of Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs.
For more information, call 837-8283.
-- Laura Overturf
Students completing their MFA degrees this spring have combined creative forces to create a unique tabletop that is covered in individual tiles designed by each student receiving a degree. Forty-five students and professors from the Department of Art each made a tile that captures the essence of their art. Planned as a project for her graduate show by Mary Rogers McDonough of Smyrna, a student of Victor Spinski, the table is a tribute to individual artists working together and a memorial to the time the MFA students have spent together at UD.
The table is on display in the University Gallery in Old College through Sunday, May 1.
The University Gallery is on the second floor of Old College. For more information, call 831-8242.
The University's Academy of Lifelong Learning will hold an art sale from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., May 3-5, at the academy's home in Arsht Hall, on the Wilmington Campus, 2700 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington.
The art sale is open to the public, and includes both framed and unframed works, all by academy members. A book sale will be held concurrently.
The Academy of Lifelong Learning is a membership organization that provides opportunities for adults 50 and over to learn, teach, and travel with their peers. Members plan and teach the academy's wide variety of classes. Classes are held in the daytime, and there are no grades, exams, or prerequisites.
For more information about the art sale or the academy, call 573-4417.
Two MBNA executives, Lance Weaver, senior vice chairman and chief executive officer, and Bruce Hammonds, executive vice chairman and chief operating officer, will speak on "MBNA and the Credit Card Industry" at 1:30 p.m., Friday, April 30, in Chaplin Tyler Atrium of MBNA America Hall. Weaver and Hammonds will speak in place of Charles Cawley, chief executive officer of MBNA Corp.'s banking subsidiary MBNA America Bank, N.A., who was originally scheduled to deliver the talk.
This is the last lecture in the Chaplin Tyler Executive Leadership Lecture Series. The program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information, call 831-2221.
The Wesley Foundation yard sale will be held from 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, May 8, in the Heritage Hall of Newark United Methodist Church, 69 East Main St. A wide variety of items, including a model railroad set, will be on sale at the event, which benefits the Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry.
For those wishing to contribute tax-deductible items to the sale, tax reduction receipts will be provided from 6:30-8:30 p.m., May 3-7, at the church.
For more information, call 368-8802.
