January 2024 Union in the Media Archive

President David Harris shared his thoughts with Trusteeship magazine for an article titled, "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Higher Education."

During his Convocation remarks last fall, Harris focused on AI as one of his themes.

Noting closing phrase of the College’s vision statement to develop “every student to lead with wisdom, empathy and courage, in ways large and small, now and across multiple tomorrows,” Harris said Union must lean into the ample opportunities offered by generative AI.

He asserted that Union has positioned itself to thrive in the complex and evolving environment.

“With the combination of liberal arts and computer science and engineering, our students will contemplate the ethics and practical generations of generative AI from a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective while developing the skills expected from future employers,” he said.

The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published an essay, "Burn Book: On “Priscilla” and Sofia Coppola’s White Girls" by Lori Marso, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies.

Considering the fact that Coppola's films always feature beautiful, suffering white girls, Marso asks: "Can the white girl aesthetic be pried open? To move beyond it, must we burn it?"

To read Marso’s essay, visit the website.

Marso joined Union in 1997.

President David Harris and members of Schenectady Clergy Against Hate were recent guests on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio’s program, “The Roundtable.”

Harris, Rabbi Matthew Cutler, Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady, and Rev. Amaury Tañón-Santos, executive director/CEO, Schenectady Community Ministries, previewed an upcoming event as part of the College’s Forum on Constructive Engagement.

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.

To listen to the conversation, please visit The Roundtable's website.

Mary K. Carroll ’86, the Dwane W. Crichton Professor of Chemistry, is profiled in a cover story of the latest edition of C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.

Carroll was elected as the president of the ACS, the world’s largest scientific society with 151,000 members in 140 countries.

She will serve as president of the society in 2024 and immediate past president in 2025; she will also serve on the board of directors from 2023 through 2025.

Carroll, an analytical chemist, joined Union in 1992, the first alumna hired as a tenure-track member of Union’s faculty.