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Union recently launched a new financial aid initiative that will support families who get caught between formula assumptions and reality.

Families making up to $250,000 per year, who have an expected family contribution of $90,000 or less, will qualify for at least $20,000 in scholarship assistance. Previously, some families at such income levels would qualify for little or no scholarship assistance. These Making U Possible Family Grants will help families who are struggling to meet those contributions plan for their children’s futures and see that a Union education is attainable.

Inside Higher Ed wrote about the new grants.

“Embody,” the Mandeville Gallery’s fall exhibit, features 10 contemporary artists of diaspora who use collage-making concepts and methods to construct identity through a wide range of representations of the body.

A review of the exhibit appeared in the Times Union (subscription may be required).

Union formally opened its 225th academic year Tuesday with its traditional Convocation ceremony that helped welcome the Class of 2023, recognized student and faculty achievements, and touched on highlights for the coming year.

A story on the event appeared in The Daily Gazette (subscription may be required).

Union officially welcomed the Class of 2023 when students begin moving in on Sunday, Sept. 8.

More than 6,000 applicants vied to join the incoming class of 552 students in one of the most competitive admissions processes in the school’s history.

The students come from 27 states and the District of Columbia. They represent 15 countries, including Cambodia, China, Ghana, Morocco and Poland.

Five faculty members were featured as part of Union College Week on WAMC's "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.

Krisanna M. Scheiter, associate professor of philosophy: Aristotle on the Virtue of Vengeance.

Carol Weisse, professor of psychology and director of Health Professions: Lessons Learned at the Bedside of the Dying.

Lori J. Marso, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, and professor of political science: Feminist Cringe Comedies.

Andrew Morris, associate professor of history: When Natural Disasters Became National Disasters.

Mary K. Carroll, the Dwane W. Crichton Professor of Chemistry: How Do We Make Buildings More Energy-Efficient?

Bradley Hays, associate professor of political science, was a recent guest on Congressional Corner on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio. He discussed the Supreme Court, which is in a period of transition.

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.

A new book by Andrew Feffer, professor of history, was recommended in a Times Union roundup of local authors to read for the summer.

Feffer's book, "Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism and the Origins of McCarthyism," is a look back at the Rapp-Coudert Committee. The committee held a series of private and public hearings in the 1940s in which hundreds of educators were interrogated, threatened and in many cases, fired, for their alleged Communist ties.

Feffer joined Union in 1989.