Kevin Christie '98 was recently elected first selectman of Westport, Conn. A former corporate strategy advisor and current member of the Board of Education, he is the first Democrat elected to the town’s highest office since 2009.
Matt Baumgartner '95 is the center of a new reality TV show on Amazon Prime called “June Farms.” The show drops on November 17. Baumgartner, a restaurateur turned farmer, opened June Farms in 2017.
Dr. Sue Goldie ’84, an award-winning Harvard professor, physician and public health scientist, recently shared her experience with Parkinson’s disease in The New York Times. Goldie was Union’s commencement speaker in 2021.
Björn Birnir '76 was recently featured in The New York Times story, "Now Arriving: A New Theory of In-Flight Turbulence." Birnir is a leading scholar of turbulence, and is professor and chair of mathematics and director of the Center for Complex and Nonlinear Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Alumni shared their memories of Robert Redford, who died Sept. 16, with WNYT News. Redford starred in "The Way We Were," which was filmed on campus in the early 1970s.
Steve Koscs '83 recently shared a fun recollection of working at the New York State Fair with This is CNY. During the late 1970s, he worked at a food stand on the west end of the Midway.
Albany County Legislator Sam Fein '12 won the Democratic primary to be the next Albany chief city auditor. Nearly 5,700 people cast their vote for Fein, who currently represents the 6th Legislative District.