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A Minerva House is renamed Harris House in honor of President David Harris

More than 20 years after it opened its intellectual doors as one of the original Minerva Houses, Green House has a new name: Harris House. The campus community gathered Thursday night to officially dedicate Harris House, named in honor of President David R. Harris for his leadership and contributions as Union’s 19th president.

The Eras course: The Beatles, Motown and Taylor Swift (Union's version)

Students in "The Beatles, Motown, and Taylor Swift" class taught by Hugh Jenkins, professor of English.

Steinmetz Symposium a rite of spring for 35 years

Friday, May 9

Student presenting research, pointing to a poster at the Steinmetz Research Symposium Poster Day.

Stories through pictures: Studying graphic retelling of "David & Goliath"

Alex Roginski '26

Alex Roginski '26 in France

Nott Logical: Student band hits all the right notes

On the warmest day of the year, when students emerged from hibernation to excitedly awaken the campus from its winter slumber, four musicians crowded into a cramped space of the WRUC studios on the fourth floor of Reamer Campus Center. Performing as Nott Logical, the four – Cray Case ‘25, Sam Dickinson ’27, Alex Ottavio ’25 and Gianna Talarico ’25 – forgo the sun on this early weeknight to rehearse for two hours. Before long, they launch into “Take Me Out” the 2004 hit by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferd

Emmy-award winning journalist Joanna Stern '06 to be Commencement speaker

Joanna Stern '06

Cinema magic: Student films showcased on the big screen

A still from Josh Atkinson’s '26 short documentary about Tom White, the head men's and women's crew coach.

Founders Day a time to reflect on the history of Blacks at Union

at Founders Day Thursday in Memorial Chapel. The event commemorates the 230th anniversary of the granting of Union’s charter by the state Board of Regents in 1795, regarded as one of the first public calls for higher education.

Catching up with...Tim Olsen

Bob’s Dylan’s “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” certainly doesn’t apply to fellow Minnesotan Tim Olsen, born 20 years after the legendary folk artist.

The Olsen family

Presidential prose: Letter from Thomas Jefferson, others part of Union collection

In 1824, physician, botanist and geologist Lewis C. Beck published an article in the New York Medical and Physical Journal on research he had done on the climate of the valley of the Mississippi. A member of Union’s Class of 1817, Beck challenged a theory on climate offered by Thomas Jefferson of both his home state and America as a whole in his 1787 book, “Notes on the State of Virginia.” Jefferson believed that, at similar parallels of latitude, the climate of the Mississippi Valley was warmer than that o

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