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Announcement of new president Elizabeth Kiss featured in various media outlets

Elizabeth Kiss, an Oxford-trained philosopher and former college president who most recently served as CEO of the Rhodes Trust, has been selected as the 20th president of Union College.

Kiss (pronounced ‘quiche’) will succeed David Harris, who announced last fall he would be stepping down at the end of the current academic year after seven years. Kiss begins her new role July 1.

The announcement was featured in a number of media outlets, including the Times Union, Daily Gazette, Albany Business Review, WAMC, Spectrum News and News10ABC, Inside Higher Ed, University Business and Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Some outlets may have a paywall.

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"All that is Gathered" exhibit featured in Daily Gazette

“All that is Gathered,” a three-person exhibition curated by Allison Conley, lecturer of visual arts in printmaking and drawing, opened Jan. 8 in the Crowell and West galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

The three – Golnar Adili, Kristina Bivona and Karen Lederer – are artists whose printmaking practice fundamentally informs their work, permeating sculpture, painting, installation and craft.

The Daily Gazette recently previewed the exhibit. A subscription may be required to access the article.

To learn more, read a story on Union's news site.

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Local NBC affiliate features Theta Delta Chi service opportunity

Members of Theta Delta Chi fraternity recently paid a visit to Liberty ARC in Amsterdam for their local service week.

Liberty ARC provides services to people with disabilities

The fraternity brought football-themed crafts and played games with the people supported by Liberty. Members of the Union College football team also signed autographs and took some pictures.

The event was covered by WNYT-13, the local NBC affiliate.

To view a clip of the event, visit the website.

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Professor Joshua Hart pens op-ed for The Conversation

Joshua Hart, associate professor of psychology, collaborated with two professors at the University of South Florida on an op-ed for The Conversation, "Time to Freak Out? How the existential terror of hurricanes can fuel climate change denial."

The three explain how climate-change denial functions as a psychological defense against the existential fear sparked by extreme weather events like Florida's recent hurricanes, as the threat of species annihilation can be too overwhelming to confront.

Additionally, for some, acknowledging climate change threatens core ideologies that provide a sense of stability and purpose, leading (ironically) to a stronger denial response when natural disasters occur. They argue for reframing climate change as a shared, actionable challenge, integrating solutions into ideologies that can empower collective resilience and meaningful action.

Hart joined Union in 2007.

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Exhibit highlighting the history of LGBTQ featured in Daily Gazette

An exhibit highlighting the history of LGBTQ was recently featured in the Daily Gazette.

“Matthew Leifheit: Gay Archive,” a solo exhibition in the Crowell and West galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, opened in September and will run through Nov. 12.

To read the story in the Gazette, visit the website. A subscription may be required to access the content.

To learn more, visit the Union College news site.

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Times Union and Daily Gazette preview performances of Union dancers with Eisenhower Dance Detroit

Union College student dancers will perform with members of Eisenhower Dance Detroit during the troupe's four-day residency at the College Oct. 15-18, culminating with a performance at The Egg in Albany.

The Times Union and Daily Gazette previewed the upcoming performances. A subscription may be required to access the articles.

To learn more about the residency, visit the College's news site.

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Professor Mary K. Carroll ’86 quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal on Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Mary K. Carroll ’86, the Dwane W. Crichton Professor of Chemistry and president of the American Chemical Society, was quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other media outlets about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

A subscription may be required to access the articles.

Carroll was elected as the president of the ACS, one of the world’s largest scientific societies with more than 200,000 individuals in its global community. She serves as president of the society in 2024 and will serve as 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.