August 2016 Union in the Media Archive

Zoe Oxley, professor of political science and director of American Studies, provided expert analysis for the Times Union series, "Women in Politics."

Oxley's expertise includes gender stereotyping and elections as well as the gender gap in public opinion and voting. She has published journal articles and book chapters on these topics, including “Gender Stereotyping in State Executive Elections: Candidate Selection and Success,” “Why No Madame President? Gender and Presidential Politics in the United States,” and “Women’s Support for an Active Government.”

To read one article in the series, click here (subscription may be required).

To read another in which Oxley is quoted, click here.

Andrea Foroughi, associate professor of history and director of the Women's and Gender Studies Progam, was recently quoted in a Times Union column by Jennifer Gish on the rise of women's voices in today's world.

To read the column, click here (subscription may be required).

A new exhibit by Fernando Orellana, associate professor of visual arts, recently opened at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

The exhibit, "His Study of Life," is about Philadelphia's 19th century artist Thomas Eakins.

To read a review in the Philadelphia Inquirer, click here.

To read a review in PhillyVoice, click here.

To read a review on BillyPenn.com, click here.

Bradley Hays, associate professor of political science, was a recent guest on "Congressional Corner" on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio. He discussed the 2016 presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Northeast Public Radio is a member of National Public Radio serving parts of seven northeastern states. These include New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

In their controversial 2014 book, “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,” legal scholars Amy Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, attempted to explain why some groups “do strikingly better than others in terms of wealth, position and other conventional measures of success.”

The theory received widespread attention, in part because Chua had touched off an intense debate earlier with her bestseller, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.”

But a recent study by two Union College psychology professors finds there is little evidence to support the idea of the so-called triple package.

Instead, Joshua Hart and Christopher Chabris counter that intelligence, conscientiousness and economic advantage are the most likely elements of success, regardless of ethnicity.

The study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, received widespread media attention when released in the spring.

Scientific American is the latest to weigh in.

To read the clip, click here.