Humanities news

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

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

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

New study links historical redlining to tree disparity in Schenectady

A city’s street trees offer a myriad of environmental and psychological benefits, including shade, habitat and food for wildlife, and reducing pollutants in the air. Yet some neighborhoods in the city of Schenectady have significantly more tree-lined streets than others. Blame the environmental injustice on discriminatory federal housing policies dating back decades for the disparity in the tree canopy. New research by Allison Malatesta ’24 and Jeff Corbin, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Science

Union to mark 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings with a number of special events

Professor Lori Marso to launch new book at the Strand

One of Manhattan’s iconic bookstores, will host a book launch for Lori Marso’s latest, “Feminism and the Cinema of Experience,” Thursday, Feb. 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

President David Harris to give Founders Day talk

For his upcoming talk, Harris has been looking through Union’s archives and picking the brain of experts like Denis Brennan, a retired lecturer in the History Department who taught a class on Union College history.

Picture perfect: Historic Nott portrait gets a makeover

Eliphalet Nott has never looked better. A stately portrait of Union’s longtime president is back in the historic building that bears his name after a much-needed refresh at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. Painted by the renowned artist Henry Inman and completed in 1844, the massive 8-foot-by-5-foot portrait that weighs nearly 100 pounds deteriorated over time. The last full restoration of the painting was done more than 40 years ago, in 1981.