Nicole Theodosiou, associate professor of biology, was recently invited to speak and chair the education session at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Her talk was entitled "Teaching Developmental Biology for Social Change."

Brendan M. Anderson, visiting assistant professor of geosciences, published the article "Employment in paleontology: status and trends in the United States" in Paleobiology. This was based on the final report of the Paleontological Society's ad hoc committee on employment, and primarily focused on challenges faced by academic paleontology. The article was completed prior to recent NSF grant terminations and proposed cuts.

Francis Wilkin, senior lecturer in physics and astronomy, has co-authored two papers on the subject of exoplanets as part of the TESS Follow-up Program using data from the Las Cumbres Observatory. From the gravitational tug on another planet known to transit its host star, Barkaoui et al. have discovered an unseen planet. The paper is entitled "TOI-2015 b: A sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet" and appeared in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The second paper, "The Eccentricity Distribution of Warm Sub-Saturns in TESS," with Fairnington et al., has been accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work describes what is known about the shapes of orbits of planets somewhat smaller than Saturn.

Last week, Union College faculty and staff recently participated in a walk/run as part of a CDPHP Workforce Team Challenge event. One group of employees was shuttled down to Albany to participate in-person, one group met on campus to complete the challenge, and others completed the walk/run on their own and in virtual groups. In total, Union had 51 people participate, winning us the 3rd place award for Educational Organization Largest Participation.

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