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Members of the men's and women's hockey teams recently hosted a special event at Messa Rink for teens with special disabilities.

Spectrum News visited campus for a segment on the event.

Working with James Hedrick, senior lecturer in Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Lisa Gu' 19 has designed an automated greenhouse watering system. Her project is among 20 other systems built as part of Cultivating Resources for Employment with Assistive Technology.

CREATE, as it is known, is an effort by the New York State Industries for the Disabled to recruit student inventors and tinkerers to make devices that will ease entry to the workforce for disabled people, whose unemployment rate is significantly higher than the general population.

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A new partnership between Union and Proctors gives students a chance to gain experience on the professional stage while providing the venerable historic theater with a pool of local actors.

“It’s a new link between us,” says Andrew Mannion, lecturer in scenic design. “Proctors is putting on a professional children’s theater piece and co-producing it with Union talent.”

The Proctors enterprise is called the PB&J Café, and the inaugural show is “Stuart Little,” the classic children’s tale by E.B. White about a mild-mannered mouse born into an ordinary New York family and trying to survive in a human world.

The show was recently featured in the Times Union.

Inside Higher Ed posted an op-ed by President David R. Harris who argued that campus is the place for constructive engagement, not free speech. The op-ed was in response to a recent executive order by President Trump on campus free speech.

Hundreds from the campus community turned out Sunday for the seventh annual Dutchmen Dip. The event raised more than $20,000 to benefit the Shinebarger Memorial Scholarship, with an additional $20,000 matched by Tom Coleman '88.

The Daily Gazette and Times Union covered the event (subscription may be required).

Andrew Feffer, professor of history, was a recent guest on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio’s program, “The Roundtable.”

He discussed his new book, “Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism,” 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.

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.

Chad Orzel, R. Gordon Gould Associate Professor of Physics, has written a new book, "Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects."

It was recently featured in the Book Review section of the New York Times.

Orzel has written two other books: “How to Teach Physics to Your Dog” and its sequel, "How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog."

Orzel is also the director of undergraduate research.

He joined Union in 2001.

Recent works by U.S. and Latin American artists who are grappling with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism make up the new exhibit at the Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial.

“A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas” runs from Jan. 19 through June 16. It features paintings, photography, sculpture and works on paper, with video, in particular, highlighted as a critical medium for expanded narratives and immersive imagery.

The Times Union recently reviewed the exhibit.

Recent works by U.S. and Latin American artists who are grappling with issues of colonialism and postcolonialism make up the new exhibit at the Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial.

“A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas” runs from Jan. 19 through June 16. It features paintings, photography, sculpture and works on paper, with video, in particular, highlighted as a critical medium for expanded narratives and immersive imagery.