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Nominations sought for Unitas awards

The Student Diversity Leadership Award is given each year to a senior who demonstrates an active dedication to activities on campus that support multicultural enrichment. Students must be nominated by a current faculty or staff member, administrator or student.

The Community-Building Award goes to a student, administrator, faculty or staff member who best demonstrates outstanding leadership by creating events that bring together as many segments as possible of the campus community or maintaining an organization dedicated to bringing together many campus segments in some common cause.

Nominations for both awards much be received by March 8 (end of the day). Email your nominations, with supporting reasons, to David Gerhan at gerhand@union.edu.

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Union College’s 43rd International Festival Of Chamber Music

Derek Delaney, artistic director of the Union College Concert Series, was featured on WAMC's The Roundtable.

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Football physics and the science of Deflategate

THE CONVERSATION

Chad Orzel, associate professor of physics and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, experimentally tested the physics of "deflate-gate."

Read what he found here on The Conversation, an international academic blog.

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Volunteers of the Week

The members of the College’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students are this week’s Volunteers of the Week from the Kenney Community Center.

The students provide hands-on workshops to middle and high school students to help popularize physics and show its applications in everyday life, including liquid nitrogen ice cream and other fun science demonstrations. Recently, the group did a workshop for students on campus for the Kenney Community Center’s Martin Luther King Day program. They shared several science demonstrations and talked about what its like to be a physics major.

The students are: Shauna LeFebvre ’16; Stephen DiIorio ’15; Harry Hausner ’16; Andrew McCalmont ’16; Andrew Laugharn ’16; and Caleb Novins ’17.

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People in the news

Manson Publishing recently released a book by Kurt Hollocher, professor of geology. “A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field” is an illustrative introduction to metamorphic rocks as seen in the field, designed for advanced high school to graduate-level earth science and geology students. The book includes photographs from the field, line diagrams and examples to help students jump start their observational skills.

A book review by Kristin Bidoshi, associate professor of Russian and director of the Russian and East European Studies program, was published in Slavic and East European Journal. Her piece focused on “The Sacrificed Body: Balkan Community Building and the Fear of Freedom” by Tatjana Aleksić. She also presented “Re-fashioning Dracula: Psychic Vampires in Postwar American Culture” at the New England Region of the American Conference for Irish Studies in December. She recently presented “The Wind Horse: Tradition and Practice in Contemporary Buryatia” at the American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures Conference in Vancouver, Canada. That paper is based on research she conducted while directing Union’s term abroad in Irkutsk, Russia.

Carol Weisse, professor of psychology and director of the Health Professions program, Kathryn Martin ’16, and Dr. Geri Aitken ’88 co-authored a piece, “Cultivating a Community of Compassionate Caregivers: A Community Based Learning Curriculum on Palliative Care.” The document outlines a summer program for eight Union students to explore palliative care as they conduct end-of-life care at the Joan Nicole Prince Home in Glenville.

Submit your items to People in the news by emailing gowanc@union.edu.

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Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering Speaker Series continues

BY: MAURA DRISCOLL '15

The Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering (ESPE) Winter Seminar

Anthony Leiserowitz

Anthony Leiserowitz

Series continues on Wednesday, Jan. 28 with a talk by Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication works to empower educators with more knowledge and tools to better engage audiences, conduct research and design and test new strategies to educate the public.

Leiserowitz and his project have led some of the most careful studies of public opinion related to climate change science and policy. Their reports on the "Global Warming's Six Americas" have fascinating implications for effective environmental communication.

Considered an expert on American and international public opinion on global warming, Dr. Leiserowitz will report on recent trends in Americans' climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy support, and behavior and discuss strategies for more effective public engagement.

The final speaker in the series includes:

Wednesday, Feb. 18: Cheryl Charles (co-founder, president and CEO Emerita of the Children & Nature Network (C&NN). Charles has been instrumental in developing the worldwide movement to reconnect children and nature. She is also the former founding national director of Project Learning Tree and Project WILD.

Past speakers in the series have included leading voices in environmental issues such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Lonnie Thompson and Bill McKibben.

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Why some teams are smarter than others

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Christopher Chabris. associate professor of psychology, co-authored an op-ed for the New York Times Sunday Review on collective intelligence, and why some groups are smarter than others.

The piece was one of the most popular on the Times website, and was picked up by a number of other media outlets, including The Atlantic.

Read the Times piece.

Read The Atlantic's take

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Community to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with annual Unity @ Union March

BY: DOROTHY HAZAN '16

In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the campus community prepares to honor the memory of Dr. King with the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity @ Union March.

On Monday at 12:45 p.m., students, faculty and staff will gather outside Schaffer Library, where signs and song lyrics will be distributed before the march begins. The march will be followed by a program inside Nott Memorial, where the campus community will be able to reflect on the significance of MLK Day with remarks by Melinda Lawson, senior lecturer of history. The event will conclude with a performance by the Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir.

The annual event is presented by the offices of Multicultural Affairs, Campus Diversity and Inclusion, the History Department and the Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir. All are welcome and encouraged to participate.

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Eureka: Discovering your inner scientist'

WAMC

Chad Orzel, associate professor of physics and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, recently appeared on WAMC's The Roundtable.

Orzel discussed his latest book, Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist.

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Gender inequality trends

WAMC

David Cotter, professor and chair of the Sociology Department, was recently featured on WAMC's 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.

Cotter was the lead author on a research brief published for the Council on Contemporary Families chronicling the restarting of the "stalled revolution" in gender attitudes.

Listen Cotter's discussion