January 2019 News Archive

Physics major Christos Kakogiannis ’22 was awarded an honorable mention at the 12th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Beijing, China. The competition, associated with the International Astronomical Union, involved more than 200 students representing 39 countries including the U.S. and Kakogiannis’ native Greece. Kakogiannis and his teammates were invited to a meeting with Greece’s president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

ASIANetwork's Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows has selected a Union College proposal as one of seven recipients of its SFF 2019 Fellowship Award.

Megan Ferry, professor of Chinese and Asian Studies and chair of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, along with Trevor Atkins ‘20, Jeremy Rausch ‘21 and Meghan Reilly ‘20, submitted the proposal, “Between State and Populace, Chasing the China Dream.”

Noted economist, scholar and educator Catharine Bond Hill will deliver the keynote address at Founders Day Thursday, Feb. 21, at 1 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

The event commemorates the 224th anniversary of the College’s charter.

Hill’s talk will center on coeducation at Union, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of admitting women in 2020. The talk is free and open to the public.

“When the Promise Was Broken” is a collection of 13 plays inspired by the songs of Bruce Springsteen, each by a different American playwright. 


The 90-minute production pieces together nine plays in a seamless evening that celebrates the all too human experience of longing, heartbreak and promises broken in working life, relationships, families and the American dream.



The bubbly freckle-faced girl who inspired thousands at Union to join her eight-year battle against cancer is being remembered for her determination, grace and courage.

Kristen L. Shinebarger, who passed away Dec. 20, 2018, at the age of 16, will be remembered during a pre-game moment of silence at the Mayor’s Cup hockey game on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Times Union Center in Albany.

In 1940, as Nazi Germany advanced across Western Europe, the New York State Legislature convened a committee. The goal: to identify and root out those in the state university system suspected of having Communist ties.

Known as the Rapp-Coudert Committee, the body held a series of private and public hearings for nearly two years in which hundreds of educators were interrogated, threatened and in many cases, fired, for their alleged radical connections.