all Union in the Media Archive

In 1973, Steve Sasson, 23 and fresh out of college, landed a job at Eastman Kodak in the apparatus division of the company’s Applied Research Department.

Soon he was assigned a seemingly routine task — to investigate the possibility of any practical use for a charged coupled device (C.C.D.).

Two years later, Sasson remarkably completed the protype for what would be the first self-contained, portable digital camera.

Sasson will deliver the 76th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

Bill Buell wrote a column for the Daily Gazette in advance of the talk.

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The partial remains of a victim of the Schenectady Massacre in 1690 that have been in Union's archives for decades, will finally get a proper burial.

Noted writer Paul Grondahl, the director of the New York State Writers Institute, visited the archives for a story. Grondahl writes a weekly column for the Times Union.

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A crew from WTEN, the local ABC affiliate, also visited campus for a feature on the skull.

Catherine Walker, associate professor of psychology, was recently featured on The Academic Minute.

The daily program features professors from colleges and universities around the world sharing their research. It airs on public radio stations across the country.

Walker talked about changing how we think about our bodies could be beneficial to our health.

Walker joined Union in 2015.

President Elizabeth Kiss was recently featured in the Albany Business Review's popular feature, "10 Minutes With."

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Union officially ushered in a new era with the inauguration Friday afternoon of Elizabeth Kiss as its 20th president.

Kiss (pronounced quiche) assumed the presidency July 1. She is the first woman to lead Union in its 230-year history.

A number of media outlets covered the ceremony, including WTEN, the Times Union and the Daily Gazette.

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President Elizabeth Kiss was recently quoted in The New York Times in a story about the impact of fees for new H-1B visas.

An H-1B visa is a temporary (nonimmigrant) visa in the United States that allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations that require a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field.

Kiss told the Times the college employed 16 faculty members with H-1B visas who worked across nine departments. But she said the college could not afford to hire people through the program anymore.

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Andrew Morris, professor of history, contributed an op-ed, “The New York Socialist Mayor Who Came 100 Years Before Zohran Mamdani,” for TIME magazine’s Made by History feature.

Made by History takes readers beyond the headlines with articles written and edited by professional historians.

Morris joined Union in 2003.