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New microcredentials to offer expanded career opportunities for Union students

Starting this fall, Union will begin offering academic microcredentials, which are designed to help students gain specific in-demand skills and competencies to make them more desirable to prospective employers. Complementing Union’s traditional liberal arts curriculum, the pilot microcredentials being offered will focus on personal finance, artificial intelligence and Microsoft Excel. They will be taught by Union faculty or alumni. Additional offerings are planned for later. The free microcredentials, a dis

Stronger together: Union students partner with local nonprofits to boost projects

When the Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation needed help redesigning its website, the non-profit organization didn’t need to stray far from its offices across from the College on Union Street. A new student-led group, the Union Consulting Collaborative, stood ready to assist. Formed this year, the group aims to pair students with Schenectady’s nonprofits and small businesses to support various projects, including research, outreach and web design. The community organizations get a much-needed servi

Union students excel at global spreadsheets competition

Students Francesco Ciaramitaro '28 , Chris Wearing '26 and Lu De Azevedo ‘27 compete in a recent Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge from the Peter Irving Wold Center.

Catching up with…Stephen Schmidt

For more than three decades, Stephen Schmidt has been a familiar face on campus.

Steven Schmidt, the Kenneth B. Sharpe Professor of Economics, and his wife, Alexandra, in their sukkah.

Founders Day a chance to celebrate Union’s distinctive history and continued excellence in higher education

Founders Day speaker Judith G. Dein ’76, a federal magistrate judge, with President Elizabeth Kiss.

Federal judge Judith Dein '76 to speak at Founders Day

Feb. 26, at 1 p.m. in Memorial Chapel

Judith Gail Dein ’76

Going home: Three centuries later, victim of Schenectady Massacre to get proper burial

A partial human skull believed to belong to a victim of the Schenectady Massacre, which took place Feb. 8, 1690. Unearthed during an excavation in a downtown area in the 19th century, the skull was gifted to the College in 1877.

New political science lecture series to focus on contemporary politics

Feb. 9, at 5 p.m. in the Nott Memorial

U.S. Congress building

Apply for the Schaffer Library Research Prize

The Schaffer Library Research Prize is awarded on Prize Day to a current Union College student to recognize a research project that uses library resources.

Student conducting research in a chemistry lab

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