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An exhibit featuring the work of Fernando Orellana, associate professor of visual arts, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was featured in various Philadelphia media outlets, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philly Voice and BillyPenn.com.

Two books by Lori Marso, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, were recently released. Routledge published 51 Key Feminist Thinkers, which includes articles by Andrea Foroughi, associate professor of history, and Michelle Chilcoat, associate professor of French. Oxford University Press published Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier, which Marso edited with Bonnie Honig from Brown University.

“Two Early Interactive Computer Network Experiments,” an article by David Hemmendinger, professor emeritus of computer science, appeared in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

Heather Watson, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, was awarded a $292,000 grant from NASA for her project, “Diffusion in Iron-Nickel Alloys and Sulfides: Constraints on Segregation and Crystallization of Early Planetary Cores.” Her project will include education and research training for high school and Union College students from the fields of astronomy, geology and physics. Learn more about it here.

Union officially welcomed the Class of 2020 when students began moving in on Sunday, Sept. 4.

The 563 first-year students were selected from record 6,647 applications, one of the most competitive admissions cycles in the school’s history. The students hail from 29 states and 23 countries, including Mauritius, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. The class is one of the most diverse, with nearly 30 percent international or from underrepresented backgrounds. It’s also one of the strongest academically, with two-thirds of the students ranked in the top 10 of their high school class.

Click here to read a story in the Daily Gazette.

Click here to view a photo gallery in the Times Union.

Zoe Oxley, professor of political science and director of American Studies, provided expert analysis for the Times Union series, "Women in Politics."

Oxley's expertise includes gender stereotyping and elections as well as the gender gap in public opinion and voting. She has published journal articles and book chapters on these topics, including “Gender Stereotyping in State Executive Elections: Candidate Selection and Success,” “Why No Madame President? Gender and Presidential Politics in the United States,” and “Women’s Support for an Active Government.”

To read one article in the series, click here (subscription may be required).

To read another in which Oxley is quoted, click here.

Andrea Foroughi, associate professor of history and director of the Women's and Gender Studies Progam, was recently quoted in a Times Union column by Jennifer Gish on the rise of women's voices in today's world.

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A new exhibit by Fernando Orellana, associate professor of visual arts, recently opened at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

The exhibit, "His Study of Life," is about Philadelphia's 19th century artist Thomas Eakins.

To read a review in the Philadelphia Inquirer, click here.

To read a review in PhillyVoice, click here.

To read a review on BillyPenn.com, click here.

Bradley Hays, associate professor of political science, was a recent guest on "Congressional Corner" on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio. He discussed the 2016 presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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.

In their controversial 2014 book, “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,” legal scholars Amy Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, attempted to explain why some groups “do strikingly better than others in terms of wealth, position and other conventional measures of success.”

The theory received widespread attention, in part because Chua had touched off an intense debate earlier with her bestseller, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.”

But a recent study by two Union College psychology professors finds there is little evidence to support the idea of the so-called triple package.

Instead, Joshua Hart and Christopher Chabris counter that intelligence, conscientiousness and economic advantage are the most likely elements of success, regardless of ethnicity.

The study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, received widespread media attention when released in the spring.

Scientific American is the latest to weigh in.

To read the clip, click here.

For decades, some believe the ghost of Alice Van der Veer reappears in Jackson's Garden on the first full moon of summer.

WAMC's Listen With The Lights On is a podcast dive into the strange, mysterious and occult.

The latest episode examines the possibility of a ghost haunting Jackson's Garden.

WAMC, 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.

Sydney Paluch '17 and David Olio '17 are the latest recipients of a summer research fellowship program offered through the Kelly Adirondack Center.

To read about their projects in the Sunday Gazette, click here.

To read a story on Union's news site, click here.

Students participating in Union’s annual EDGE camp helped adapt some toys for kids with special needs at the Langan School in Albany.

To watch a news clip on WTEN-10, the local ABC affiliate, click here.

Since 2002, the College has hosted a two-week summer program, “Educating Girls for Engineering.” With a dearth of women enrolled in undergraduate engineering programs, the camp encourages high school juniors and seniors from across the country to consider careers in engineering.