Catching up with...

Art, family and a strong Union legacy are among the major influences in Frank Rapant ’07’s life.

Prateek Arora, assistant professor of economics, was born in India.

An administrative assistant for the departments of Anthropology, Classics and Philosophy, and the Religious Studies program, Leahanna Pelish ’07 has worked at Union since 2016.

Mercedes Mayna Medrano has been a visiting professor of Spanish and Hispanic studies since fall 2022.

At 5 a.m., when most of campus is asleep, Weiwei Zhang and a crew of about 60 are on a mission, hustling between academic buildings and residence halls

Sarina Kuersteiner joined Union in 2022 as an assistant professor of history, specializing in the cultural, economic and legal history of the premodern Mediterranean.

Paul Buckowski joined Union in September 2022 as the college photographer in the Communications and Marketing office.

Growing up in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., John Rieffel had access to some of the world’s best cultural institutions.

As a scout leader in Boy Scout Troop 4054, Sara Garrand '97, MAT '00, has more than a passing familiarity with Mother Nature's precarity.

Professor of geosciences Holli Frey grew up Duane, N.Y., a town of 137 people in the northern Adirondacks, where her parents were the town supervisor and a tax collector/medical technologist, and also ran a cabin and boat rental business.