all Union in the Media Archive

Union's recent A Day 4 U fundraising event, was mentioned in an article in the Albany Business Review looking at what colleges are doing differently to engage alumni and raise funds.

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Scott Kirkton, an associate professor of biology, 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.

The College recently held a ceremony celebrating the new home of a 1914 “Duplex Drive Brougham” Detroit Electric automobile that once belonged to Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the great electrical engineer and inventor.

Found rotting in a Glenville field 40 years after Steinmetz’s death in 1923, the car was purchased by the College in 1971. For the next 10 years, it was painstakingly restored by Union faculty and engineering students.

Used sparingly for campus ceremonies, the vehicle has been on display at a number of places, including the Saratoga Auto Museum and the Edison Tech Center. Mostly, it has been stored in off-campus garages.

To help celebrate Steinmetz’s 149th birthday, the College Wednesday christened the car’s new permanent display in the first-floor corridor between the Wold Center and F.W. Olin building.

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Vice President for Finance and Administration Diane Blake, Chief of Staff Edward Summers and Senior Director of Communications and Marketing Gail Glover presented workshops at the annual conference of the National Association of Presidential Assistant in Higher Education in San Diego. Blake and John Pecchia, vice president for business affairs at Marist College, addressed “Understanding Institutional Finances: Lessons for Strategic Advisors to the President.” Summers and Glover co-presented a workshop on social media, “The Online Presidency.” Summers hosted two other sessions: “Managing, Supervising and Leading Others in the President’s Office: Where Do I Start?” and “Using Institutional Research to Enhance Your Roles as a Presidential Assistant.” He also led a roundtable discussion, “Dual Role: Presidential Assistant/Board Secretary.”

Brad Hays, associate professor of political science, was a guest on WAMC’s “Congressional Corner” with host Alan Chartock. The two discussed the Supreme Court’s recent decision on campaign spending.

Andrew Burkett, assistant professor of English, was accepted into the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) at Wolfson College, Oxford. In July, he will enroll in a course of study titled “Introduction to Digital Humanities” and will present his ongoing work in digital studies. The DHOxSS summer school program is a joint initiative of the Oxford e-Research Centre, IT Services, the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.

Jillmarie Murphy, assistant professor of English, published a journal article in Studies in American Naturalism 8 (Winter 2014). "Chains of Emancipation: Place Attachment and the Great Northern Migration in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods," employs the psycho-social construct of “place attachment” to broaden the implications of Dunbar's staging of late 19th African-American familial disruptions experienced during the nadir of race relations in the U.S.

Jennifer Matsue, associate professor of music, director of the Asian Studies program and director of World Musics and Cultures program, presented at the “Voices of Asian Modernity: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Asian Popular Music” at the University of Pittsburgh. Matsue’s talk was titled “Female Passivity or Musical Democracy?: Making Music with Hatsune Miku.”

The men's hockey team's run to a national championship generated a wealth of national and regional media coverage.

Bloomberg News took a look out how the College is able to field a successful team despite being outspent by its much larger rivals.

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Brad Hays, associate professor of political science, was a recent guest on "Congressional Corner" on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio.

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.

Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music, was recently was interviewed for an article on her work for the Oxford University Press’ Music blog. The story was part of their ongoing series asking composers eight questions about their musical likes, dislikes, influences and challenges. Read the article here.

Mary Carroll, professor of chemistry, Ann Anderson, the Agnes S. MacDonald Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Caroline Gorka ’14, a chemistry major, published a video article, “Preparing Silica Aerogel Monoliths via a Rapid Supercritical Extraction Method” in the Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Kaitlyn Suarez ’15 received one of three $5,000 scholarships awarded to undergraduates from the Liberty Mutual Responsible Scholars Scholarship Program. Suarez was chosen for creating the Dutchmen Dip and Good Eats, two community service programs held on campus.

Ellen Borkowski, the College’s chief information officer, was voted one of the Huffington Post’s Top 100 CIO’s to Follow on Twitter. Check out the full list here.

Stephen Berk, the Henry and Sally Shaffer Professor of Holocaust and Jewish Studies, was a guest on WAMC. He discussed if anti-Semitism is playing a role in the recent events in Ukraine with host Alan Chartock.

Matthew Futterman '91 is a senior special writer in sports for the Wall Street Journal.

He recently wrote a column about rooting for his alma mater.

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Tim Dahlberg, a national sports columnist for the Associated Press, writes about the success both on and off the ice of the men's hockey team.

The column appeared in dozens of national and international media outlets.

On the eve of the ECAC tournament, the New York Times takes a look at the men's hockey team.

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