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| Vol. 18, No. 30 | May 6, 1999 |
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T he 1999 Honors Day ceremonies will be held at 2:30 p.m., Friday, May 7. After individual college ceremonies, President and Mrs. David P. Roselle will host a reception from 4-5:30 p.m. at the President's House for members of honor societies, award recipients, their sponsors and families, administrators, academic deans and department chairpersons.
In the event of inclement weather, the reception will be moved to the Perkins Student Center Gallery.
The colleges and locations of their ceremonies are
The Division of Continuing Education will hold its ceremony at 5 p.m. in Room 128 Clayton Hall.
The Khulumani Theatre Troupe will present Ntozake Shange's chorepoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.
Free and open to the public, performances will be held at
8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 7-8, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 9, all in the Scrounge of the Perkins Student Center.
For more information, call 837-2355.
The DelTones, a cappella group, will present its spring concert at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 8, in Multipurpose Room A and B of the Trabant University Center. Admission is $7 for the general public and $5 for students.
The Golden Blues, another UD a cappella group, will make a special guest appearance. For more information, visit the DelTones website at <http://copland.udel.edu/ stu-org/ deltones/events.html>. Perkins Student Center.
For more information, call 837-2355.
Staff at the University of Delaware Outdoor Pool spent a busy off-season sprucing up the facility, and applications are now being accepted for summer memberships.
Those joining the pool will find a new state-of-the-art filtration system in place and a new vinyl covering lining the pool. All ages will enjoy two new six-foot tube slides that have been installed where the diving wells used to be, and there's a new small picnic area on the deck for all to enjoy.
Cost for a summer-long pool membership is $100 for an individual or $190 for a family of four, with an additional charge of $10 for each additional family member. Memberships for UD faculty and staff are $90 each or $165 for a family of four, plus $10 for each additional member.
The pool–located off Route 896 in Newark, adjacent to the Gold Ice Arena–opens on Memorial Day, Sunday, May 30, and will remain open from noon to 6 p.m. through June 11. From June 14-Aug. 6, the pool will be open weekdays from noon to 8 p.m., and from Aug. 9 through Aug. 27 it will be open on weekdays from noon to 7:30 p.m. Hours on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays are noon to 7 p.m.
Pool members may purchase guest passes at $3 per day for adults and $2 per day for children under the age of 13. University faculty and staff can purchase daily passes at $5 per day.
Swimming lessons will be held from June 14-25, June 28 –July 9 and July 12-23 at a cost of $40 per person. Membership on the swim team is $25 per person. Individuals must be members of the pool to take lessons or be on the swim team.
Applications for pool membership, swimming lessons and the swim team can be picked up in the office of the Rust Ice Arena, Route 896, Newark. For more information, call 831-2868.
The University Wind Ensemble, directed by Robert Streckfuss, music, will present a free concert at 8 p.m., Sunday, May 16, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.
The ensemble will perform Adagio for Wind Orchestra by Joaquin Rodrigo; Trittico by Vaclav Nelhyble; Molly on the Shore, an Irish reel by Percy Grainger; and Frank Ticheli's arrangement of Amazing Grace.
Senior music education student Christopher Gillespie will conduct the Wind Ensemble in the first movement of Symphony--Lord of the Rings by Johan de Meij.
The concert will conclude with Donald Husberger's arrangement of the Star Wars Trilogy by John Williams. The five-movement piece will include all the principal themes from the three Star Wars movies, arranged for an expanded wind ensemble, including harp, celeste, piano, six percussion, alto flute, piccolo, trumpet and fluegel horn.
Art patrons can see works by students completing their bachelor's degrees in a series of exhibitions on the Newark campus on Fridays during the month of May. 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.
Exhibiting works on Friday, May 7, in the Recitation Hall Gallery will be Amanda Jones and Marnie Levitt, both illustration majors. Other May 7 exhibitions include: illustrations by David Farrell and Melanie Alicia Moody, both in Room 203 Taylor Hall; paintings and drawings by Caroline Urbania in Room 116 Taylor Hall; paintings and sculpture by Seth Coston in the Hollingsworth Gallery; photography by Randall Cooper in Room 206 Recitation Hall, and photography by Kendra Cortese in Room 016 Taylor Hall.
Students with work on display on Friday, May 14, include Brian Kamen, who will exhibit paintings and drawings in Recitation Hall Gallery; Michael Thomas Wyshock and Richard O'Brien, who will both exhibit paintings and drawings in 203 Taylor Hall; John Cattermole, who will exhibit metals in Room 116 Taylor Hall; Mark Foraker, who will exhibit ceramics in the Hollingsworth Gallery; Jessica Clerkin, who will exhibit photographs in Room 206 Recitation Hall; and Bonnie Schmeltz, who will exhibit photographs on the first and second floors of Recitation Hall.
Exhibitions planned for Friday, May 21, include illustrations by Alexander Elkorck, Rebecca Sauer and Robert Waters, all in Room 203 Taylor Hall; illustrations by Brandon Baer in Room 116 Taylor Hall; paintings and drawings by John Short in the Hollingsworth Gallery; photography by Paul Silver and Daniel Cullen, both in Room 206 Recitation Hall; and photography by Margo Stein in Room 016 Taylor Hall.
A group show by visual communication students also is planned for May 21 in the Gallery of Recitation Hall.
Students participating in that show include Pamela Belmont, Catherine Cribb, Karl Lieberman, David Ortega, James Corbett, Amber Justis, Edward Abbott, Brandon Henderson, David Bradley, Marisa Wisber, Michael Klar, Stacy Shapiro, Michelle Prescott, Christyne Penque, Kari Tortorello and Lauren Renk.
Two of the 43 seniors installing the thesis exhibition required for gradation will be mounting Degree with Distinction exhibitions. Those students are Seth Coston, a sculpture and painting major who will have his works on display May 7 in the Hollowingsworth Gallery; and Brian Kamen, who is majoring in painting and will have works on display on May 14 in the Recitation Hall Gallery. Both will be recognized with an honors degree in art.
For more information on any of the shows, call 831-2242 or send e-mail to Vera Kaminski, art, at <vera@udel.edu>.
The 14th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, which is the culmination of the senior thesis course for Honors Degree and Degree with Distinction students, is scheduled on 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. in the Art Gallery. This session will focus on the works focusing on arts and humanities, social science and science and engineering. Topics range from Byron's influence on Edgar Allan Poe to the effects of central-bank independence on inflation.
At 10:30 a.m., the plenary session will begin in the Rodney Room, featuring a keynote address by Laurie Shannon, assistant professor of English at Duke University who earned an honors degree from UD in 1984.
Vice Provost for Academic Programming and Planning John C. Cavanaugh will present welcoming remarks, followed by recognition of 1998 and 1999 degree with distinction and honors degree candidates. Joan S. Bennett, undergraduate research, will speak on the 1999 candidates. After the recognition of candidates, Bonnie Kime Scott, English, will introduce the keynote speech, "Error, Anachronism and Accident" by Shannon.
From 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in concurrent sessions, students will present talks, each followed by questions from the audience. The psychology and philosophy presentations will be held in Kirkwood Room; health services and family and community services in the Blue and Gold Room; history presentations in the Art Gallery; literature presentations in the Collins Room; international relations in the Alumni Lounge; biological sciences, chemistry, medical technology and food science in the Rodney Room; and engineering presentations in the Ewing Room.
The symposium is designed to recognize exceptional research work at the undergraduate level and to promote student awareness of undergraduate research possibilities. All members of the University community are invited, particularly those students contemplating research and/or an enriched degree and those faculty sponsoring undergraduate researchers.
For complete program information, check the web site at <http://www.udel.edu/UR/ sym/html>.
An exhibition that celebrates Disability Awareness Day will be on view during the evening, on Tuesday, May 11. Free and open to the public, the exhibition will be installed in Multipurpose Room B of the Trabant University Center.
Sponsored by Disability Related Awareness for Students (DReAmS) the exhibition is designed to promote local community disability organizations; and promote disability rights. The film, Enable: People with Disabilities and Computers, produced by Microsoft and featuring DReAmS member Krista Caudill, will be shown.
DReAmS is a new student organization at UD organized for the purpose of fostering an awareness of disability issues on campus and supporting students with disabilities through educational and social activities.
The group also aims to facilitate and perpetuate the integration of students with disabilities on campus, to foster campus and community support and services and to create an environment that will establish a network for students with disabilities both within and outside of the University.
For more information on the group or the exhibition, call 234-1077 or visit the DReAmS web site at <dreams@asel.udel.edu>.
Gen. Colin Powell will address school mentors, tutors and members of the general public 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 open to the public.
Powell also will speak to a similar audience in the Dover area from 7:30-8:30 p.m., the same night, in Memorial Hall Gymnasium at Delaware State University.
These two "Celebration of Mentors" events are designed to recognize the efforts of those who volunteer their time and talents to help others through mentoring programs throughout the state.
Tickets for both events are now available through the box office at the Trabant University Center, at Delaware branches of Wilmington Trust Co. and WSFS Bank and Happy Harry's locations in Delaware. Mentors and guests from across the state all encouraged to obtain tickets and attend this celebration being held in their honor.
For more information, call the Delaware Mentoring Council at 831-0520.
A cougar was sighted about 11 p.m., Monday, May 3, near the Pencader Residence Hall Complex. Individuals are advised to be alert and use caution when walking in wooded areas. Any sightings should be reported to University Police at 9-911 or 831-2222.
The Francis Alison Society is holding its fourth annual competition for the Young Scholars Award, given to a UD assistant professor who has shown distinction through research and publications, especially where the research flows back into the teaching and academic program.
Nominations are made through departmental chairpersons or deans where there is no department.
Applications must include a curriculum vitae; one book, article or other work that the nominee selects as representative of his or her best work; and the endorsement of the chairperson. A committee of Francis Alison scholars will act as judges, with the advice of all members of the society.
The winner will be recognized at a ceremony and win a cash prize. Previous winners have been Carlos Plata-Salaman, biological sciences; P. Andrew Evans, chemistry and biochemistry; and R. Lian-Ping Wang, mechanical engineering.
All nominations should be submitted through departmental chairpersons to the secretary of the Francis Alison Society, Room 306, Robinson Hall, prior to May 31.
Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries" is the title of an exhibition of library materials relating to British author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), which will be on display in the Morris Library from May 19 to Sept. 7.
The exhibition is planned in conjunction with the ninth annual Virginia Woolf conference titled "Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries," which will be hosted on campus by the University Department of English June 10-13.
Items selected for display demonstrate the extent of Woolf's influence and the diversity of materials that have been published in response to the lively and continuing interest in her life and work.
According to her sister Vanessa Stephen Bell, Woolf intended from childhood to be a writer. She acquired most of her education through private tutoring and from reading the extensive library of her father, Leslie Stephen, a well-known writer and editor of Cornhill (1871- 1882) and the Dictionary of National Biography (1882-1890).
Throughout her life, Woolf kept journals and reading notebooks, which document influences on her writing. Selections of these materials, available in the library in microform and digital format as well as print, will be included in the exhibition.
Woolf started contributing essays to the Times Literary Supplement in 1905, while still going by her maiden name, Virginia Stephen. She continued to write reviews and essays throughout her life, but is known primarily for the novels published after her marriage to Leonard Woolf, including The Voyage Out (1915), Jacob's Room (1922), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931) and The Years (1937).
Selections on exhibit also will include Woolf's short stories and sketches and her fantasy biographies of her friend Vita Sackville-West (Orlando, 1928) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog (Flush, 1933).
The exhibition is curated by Shiela Pardee, library analyst in the Special Collections Department.
For more information, visit the web page at <http://www. lib.udel.edu>.
Next week, three University of Delaware students with C-H-A-R-M-E-D L-I-V-E-S can be seen on the popular TV game show, Wheel of Fortune. Ryan Hughes, a senior marketing major from Ellicott City, Md., Tony Rodriguez, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Toms River, N.J., and Laurie March, a junior international relations major from Bel Air, Md., can be seen spinning the wheel, buying vowels and solving puzzles. The program airs locally at 7:30, weeknights, on WPVI-TV, Channel 6, in Philadelphia.
Hughes, who called the experience "totally cool," can be seen on the show on Monday, May 10; Rodriguez will appear on Thursday, May 13; and March will be a contestant on the Friday, May 14, show.
Media attention isn't all that new to any of the three contestants. Rodriguez was selected to appear last summer in a special edition of Cosmopolitan magazine, called All About Men. March has modeled for Teen People magazine and in advertisements in the University of Delaware Messenger. Hughes also has had his share of fame and fortune while at UD, but viewers will only learn about that by watching the show and listening carefully as Hughes is introduced.
While there is no information available on Rodriguez' win, Hughes, who went on to play the grand prize game in his round, won $6,750 in cash and $4,000 worth of Philadelphia Phillies merchandise.
As part of that prize, he will throw out the first pitch at the Sept. 29 Phillies game. Had he but known that S C R _ _ _ _ _ _ stood for "scrapbook," he would have taken home $25,000 on the spot.
March won a total of $9,700 by knowing the phrase, "Fun In The Sun."
Playing for the grand prize, had she but known the phrase "Skip It," she would have won a brand new car.
"Now all I hear from my friends is 'skip it,'" March said. "They're always saying, 'Hey, Laurie, are you going to class or are you going to skip it?' 'Are you going to go to dinner or are you going to skip it.'"
March and Hughes, who both have professional mascoting jobs lined up for the summer, have no specific plans for spending their money. March would like to host a "Wheel of Fortune Party" for her friends, spending l0 percent of her winnings in a crazy way and investing the rest. Hughes may put his winnings toward a car--after all he'll be needing one to drive him to that Phillies game where he throws out the pitch.
"It's just like another great once-in-a-lifetime experience," he said.
-- Beth Thomas
The lecture and ceremony on Tuesday, May 11, honoring Stanford R. Ovshinsky of Troy, Mich., president an CEO of Energy Conversion Devices and the United Solar Systems Corporation–the 1999 recipient of the Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit– will be held in Room 127 Memorial Hall, not Mitchell Hall as was previously announced.
The award consists of a bronze medal and a $40,000 prize. The award lecture, free and open to the public, begins at 4 p.m. and is entitled "Star-Kissed Energy for the New Millennium."
Ovshinsky was selected for the award for pioneering the science of amorphous semiconductors resulting in the development of low-cost thin-film silicon solar cells for the conversion of sunlight into electricity.
He is the fourth recipient of the Böer award, which is given in honor of Karl Wolfgang Böer, a longtime faculty member of the University of Delaware, founder of its Institute for Energy Conversion, and a distinguished scientist in the field of solar cell research.
A number of special sales will be held this month at the University Bookstore.
During National Nurses Week, from May 6-12, a free nursing totebag will be given away with a purchase of $35 or more of nursing reference or nursing study review guides at the University Bookstore in the Perkins Student Center.
Also, a sidewalk sale will be held from May 10-28 in the Concourse outside the University Bookstore in the Perkins Student Center. There will be 75 percent off selected trade books and 10-50 percent off selected apparel and gifts.
The bookstores will offer Fast Cash for Books from May 17-28. For buyback times and locations checkout the web site at <www.udel.edu/bookstore>.
Cap and gown pick-up will take place on May 10 at the University Bookstore in the Perkins Student Center for any orders that were placed before April 3.
