April 2017 Union in the Media Archive

A group of Union students and faculty will travel to Washington, D.C. April 29 to protest the environmental policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration.

Over 40 students, faculty and staff are representing the College at the Peoples Climate Movement. Angelica DeDona ’19 and Jeffrey Corbin, associate professor of biology, are organizing the group. The national march is being organized by 350.org, led by environmentalist Bill McKibben who was on campus last week to speak.

Participants will march from the U.S. Capitol building and surround the grounds of the White House, ending at the Washington Monument.

“I am hoping that this gives people the energy to keep fighting for their voices to be heard by the government,” said DeDona. “Constantly fighting for the earth, something we all benefit from, can be exhausting because it is so obviously important to those who have always cared.”

Noted historian David McCullough’s latest book, “The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For” is a collection of speeches culled from the scores McCullough has given over the past 25 years to a variety of audiences. Included is his 1994 commencement speech at Union.

McCullough talked about his speech at Union on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, The Roundtable.

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.

Read more about his speech at Union.

John Donohue '90 was recently featured in The New York Times.

The story focused on his drawing project, "All the Restaurants in New York." A selection of his work is on display in Brooklyn, where the prints are also sold. As a student, John was involved with Sigma Phi and spent a term abroad in China.

Read the story here.

Learn more about Donohue's project on his website here.

Union's fly fishing club was recently featured in the Daily Gazette.

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A contingent of students and faculty from Union were headed to the March for Science in Albany, N.Y. and the People's March for Climate Change in Washington, D.C.

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As part of a feature on area colleges and its biggest supporters, The Albany Business Review talked to Kelly Williams '86 and David Breazzano '78 about their love for the College.

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The Council on Aging at the Kane Center recently honored Dr. Howard Voss '57 with the Charlie Kane Award, presented to a senior citizen who has provided preeminent service to the Martin County (Florida) community.

Voss, medical director and CEO of Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, was recognized for his decades of teaching, contributing to significant medical research, and treating patients without the ability to pay.

At Union, Howard was involved with Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Nu and Concordiensis.

Read more here.

Noted environmentalist, author and activist Bill McKibben spoke Monday in the Nott Memorial.

His talk, “The Adirondacks: Refuge in a Warming World?” was part of the Kelly Adirondack Center’s lecture series “Living with the Land.”

To read a story in the Daily Gazette, click here.

Nancy Miorelli '11 was recently profiled by NPR. The story focused on her career as an entomologist. You can follow her on Twitter here.

At Union, she spent a term abroad in Australia and participated in Ballroom Dancing Club and Steinmetz Symposium.

Read more here.

Gretchel Hathaway, dean of diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, was named to the editorial board of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. Learn more about her appointment here.

Samuel Amanuel, associate professor of physics and astronomy, presented a paper on critical length that influences heat of fusion of nano materials at the American Physical Society March meeting in New Orleans. Jason Turner ‘18, Alexander Clain ‘15 and Caleb Novins ‘15 co-authored the paper.

Megan Ferry, associate professor of Chinese and chair of the Asian Studies program, recently spoke on a panel in Toronto, sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council for the Association for Asian Studies. It was titled “Media and Markets: A Perspective on China-Latin American Relations in Media Res.”

Research by David Cotter, professor and chair of the Sociology Department, received attention from several news outlets. An article in the New York Times recently outlined his findings that the proportion of young people holding egalitarian views about gender relationships rose steadily from 1977 to the mid-1990s but has fallen since. Read the article here.

William Zwicker, the William D. Williams Professor of Mathematics, was named an Oliver Smithies Lecturer and Visiting Fellow at Balliol College at the University of Oxford in England. During the 2018 winter term, he will give lectures and workshops to Oxford undergraduates and continue his research on the computational issues in the mathematics of voting.

Cheikh Ndiaye, associate professor of French, Deidre Hill Butler, associate professor of sociology, Ashraf Ghaly, the Carl B. Jansen Professor of Engineering, Andrew Guyette ‘17 and Jermaine Wells, Learning Environments Services coordinator, presented their research and documentary films at the 42nd annual New York African Studies Association conference at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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