Faculty in the News

Andrew Morris, associate professor of history, was featured in a Times Union story on the GI Bill (subscription may be required).

Morris joined Union in 2003.

An op-ed examining Attorney General William P. Barr's view of presidential authority by Bradley Hays, associate professor of political science, was published by the Washington Post’s Made by History section.

Hays joined Union in 2008.

A new partnership between Union and Proctors gives students a chance to gain experience on the professional stage while providing the venerable historic theater with a pool of local actors.

“It’s a new link between us,” says Andrew Mannion, lecturer in scenic design. “Proctors is putting on a professional children’s theater piece and co-producing it with Union talent.”

When things turn bleak for Emmet and friends in “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part,” the opening lines of the song “Everything’s Not Awesome” brilliantly capture the mood:

“I finally understand Radiohead.”

Since its formation in the mid-1980s in the English county of Oxfordshire, the rock band’s melancholic aesthetic, grounded in the danger and mystery surrounding hope and death, has made them one of the most popular and critically acclaimed bands in the world.

Andrew Feffer, professor of history, was a recent guest on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio’s program, “The Roundtable.”

Chad Orzel, R. Gordon Gould Associate Professor of Physics, has written a new book, "Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects."

It was recently featured in the Book Review section of the New York Times.

In 1940, as Nazi Germany advanced across Western Europe, the New York State Legislature convened a committee. The goal: to identify and root out those in the state university system suspected of having Communist ties.

Known as the Rapp-Coudert Committee, the body held a series of private and public hearings for nearly two years in which hundreds of educators were interrogated, threatened and in many cases, fired, for their alleged radical connections.