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Vol. 4, No. 3 - February 16, 2005
| "Global Environmental Challenges in 21st Century" Wilson Fellow Topic
Ross is a nationally recognized expert on environmental issues related to risk and risk communication, pollution prevention, and campus environmental issues. His nearly 20 years of experience in the public policy arena include a decade of service in Alaska, where he was associate director of fisheries and the environment, as well as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. As Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow at Skidmore, Ross will work with students taking courses on the natural sciences, management and business, education, government, and sociology. He also will meet informally with them at club meetings, in the dining halls, and for career counseling. The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program connects a liberal education with the world beyond the campus. The program arranges campus visits by practitioners in the fields of government, business, and journalism, as well as environmentalists and medical ethicists. They visit classes and participate in panels and public discussions, in addition to meeting informally with students in a variety of settings. More than 200 colleges have participated in the program since 1973. Millhauser Story to Become Movie "Eisenheim the Illusionist," a short story by Professor of English Steven Millhauser, will be made into a feature film, according to a mid-January story in Variety, the entertainment industry newspaper. Variety reported that Edward Norton will play the lead in director Neil Burger's The Illusionist. The original story first appeared in The Barnum Museum, a 1990 Millhauser collection. Shooting will begin in Prague, Czech Republic, in April. Bull's Eye entertainment and Michael London Productions will produce the film. Film Festival UpcomingThe third annual screening of the Banff Mountain film Festival World tour begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, in Bernhard Theater. The tour will feature films that capture a wide variety of mountain landscapes, outdoor adventures, sports and cultures. Films on the tour range form experimental shorts, high-adrenaline hurdles down big mountains, white water runs and mountain biking trails, along with human-interest documentaries. Highlights of this year's program include the following: Along Across Australia, winner of the People's Choice and Best Film on Mountain environment awards; Hike, Hike, Hike, winner of the Best Short Mountain Film Award; and Soul Purpose, winner of a Special Jury Mention Award. Advance-sale tickets are $13 each; admission at the door is $15 per person. Tickets are available from the Skidmore Outing Club and at all Eastern Mountain Sports stores. Proceeds from the festival will benefit the Skidmore Outing Club and the Adirondack 46R Conservation Trust. Turner and Friends at Tang Senior Artist-in-Residence Anne Turner headlines "A Valentine Encore," the latest in the Tang Museum 's "Music for a Sunday Afternoon" Series. The concert gets under way at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, in the Tang's Payne Presentation Room. Admission is free. Soprano Turner, mezzo-soprano Lucille Beer, tenor Rand Reeves, and bass Keith Kibler will present the beloved "Liebeslieder (Lovesong) Waltzes" by Brahms and the dramatic and rarely heard "Spanish Lovesongs" by Robert Schumann. Pianists Mark Evans and Gareth Griffiths will provide the piano duet accompaniment for both works. Beer has recently joined the Skidmore voice faculty. She and Turner have sung extensively as soloists in opera, oratorio, chamber music, and in recital. Reeves, a frequent guest soloist in oratorio, is director of the Burnt Hills Oratorio Society, and is a well-known refurbisher of fine pianos and a piano technician. Kibler, who lives in Williamstown, is a sought-after voice teacher, a renowned soloist in oratorio and opera, and is well known to audiences in eastern New York state and throughout New England. Griffiths is director of music at the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady, N.Y., and did graduate work at the Yale School of Church Music, and has held administrative posts with the Empire State Youth Orchestra and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Evans teaches piano at Schenectady Community College, and has extensive experience as a soloist and collaborative pianist. Though some of these musicians have performed with each other in the past, this concert marks the first collaboration of all six of them at one time. Visiting Artist Lecture Announced Susie Brandt will give an illustrated lecture at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, in Emerson Auditorium of Palamountain Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. Brandt grew up in Glens Falls and Queensbury, and spent much of her youth at West Mountain, which her family owned. Known for her textile work that prizes the scorned, even kitsch, she looks at this region with alarming clarity and humor. Susie and her sister Betsy Brandt are also known for their installations, especially Adirondackland in 1995 at Art in General in New York City. White Noise (2001-2002) at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo includes hundreds of prints of a brochure the Brandts produced based on Niagara Falls postcards and memorabilia. Joined together in a cascading, undulating curtain, the brochures fill a good-sized room and look eerily like the falls. Susie Brandt teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
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William Ross, founder and president of Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting in Seattle, Wash., and former environmental commissioner for the state of Alaska , will discuss "Global Environmental Challenges in the 21st Century" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Davis Auditorium of Palamountain Hall. Ross also will lead an open discussion on environmental matters from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, in the Somers classroom of the Tang Teaching Museum at the College. Both events are free and open to the public. He is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow at Skidmore from Feb. 21 to 25.