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Class of 1980 graduates Rich and Mary Templeton, whose $51 million gift announced in 2020 was the largest in Union’s history, have given another $40 million to strengthen the College’s distinctive integration of the liberal arts, engineering and computer science.

A number of media outlets mentioned the gift, including the Times Union, the Daily Gazette, the Albany Business Review , the Chronicle of Philanthropy and WNYT-13, the local NBC affiliate.

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The news originally appeared on the College's website.

The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published an essay by Lori Marso, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies.

Marso's essay reviews novelist Christine Smallwood's book about a classic Chantal Akerman film, “La Captive” to ask to whom, and to what, we are captive. Does making art in or about captivity move us towards freedom?

Marso is a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Review of Books.

To read Marso’s latest essay, visit the website.

Marso joined Union in 1997.

Chad Orzel, the R. Gordon Gould Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and chair of the department, was quoted in a New York Times article, "Leap Day Wants a Little Respect."

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Orzel's most recent book is "A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks.”

Orzel joined Union in 2001.

The Daily Gazette featured Donald Rodbell, the Jane and John Wold Professor of Geosciences, in its "Getting to Know" feature. A subscription may be required to access the article.

Rodbell, who joined Union in 1993, was recently awarded the Israel C. Russell Award of the Geological Society of America.

The award, given by the Geological Society of America Limnogeology Division, honors major achievements in limnogeology through contributions in research, teaching and service. Rodbell, also a recent Stillman Research Prize winner, has been studying and teaching about lake paleoclimate records for more than 30 years.

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.

A story in the Wall Street Journal about how companies are already recruiting their 2025 summer interns quoted Roger Woolsey, executive director of the Becker Career Center. It also included multiple photos of Union students who spent two weeks in New York City as part of the Union Financial Network Finance Bootcamp. The program helps students transition to a career in finance.

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American performer, teacher and historian of Renaissance and Baroque dance Ken Pierce will offer a trio of free public events during a residency at Union Nov. 4-5.

The Daily Gazette offered a preview of the events.

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