Brown Bag on Faculty and Group Losses

Mark your calendars for Fall semester's first School of Social Sciences Brown Bag talks. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, Heather Smith from Psychology will be sharing her research on "Anger, Fear or Sadness: Faculty Members’ Emotional Reactions to Group Relative Deprivation." We meet from noon to 1 in Stevenson 2011. Feel free to bring lunch and a drink, and to join faculty, staff, and students for an informal exchange of ideas. For more information, please contact Elaine Leeder or Teresa Ciabattari.

Candidates on Campus: Peter Camejo Here Sept. 20

Associated Students Productions is proud to announce Candidates on Campus 2006.  Green party candidate Peter Camejo will speak in Stevenson Quad on Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. on his gubernatorial platform. As a member of the green party, a large part of Camejo’s focus is on sustainable energy and environmental issues.The event is free to all and classes are encouraged to attend. Camejo’s appearance kicks off a series of events hosted by ASP over the coming months in an effort to raise student awareness of local and statewide political topics that affect their everyday lives. Democratic and Republican candidates for governor have also been invited to appear in future events. For information about this and all other ASP events, phone 4-2382 or visit the website.

“The Grass Family” Talk by Wopo Holup

Wopo Holup will be giving a gallery talk about the unique exhibition “The Grass Family (Gramineae)” now on display in the University Library Art Gallery at 4 p.m. on Sept. 19 in the gallery.

"The Grass Family" consists of 164 panels, which were the result of Holup’s 1999 commission by the New York Dept. of Transportation to create a large-scale public art piece for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway; thus Holup created “Common Ground” a monumental granite sculpture covering the expanse of the BQE underpass. It was through the process of transforming original drawings to granite for “Common Ground” that Holup began experimenting with digital imaging. Her experimentation resulted in the creation of a second art piece “The Grass Family (Gramineae),” which is on display in the University Library until Oct. 29.