Artist Juan Hinojosa, whose complex collage-drawings are constructed from found objects and everyday trash as part of his desire to challenge American greed and consumption, is the sixth artist featured in the College’s Art Installation Series.
He will mount his exhibition, “All Mine,” in the Schaffer Library Learning Commons Monday, April 1 through Thursday, April 4, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Stefan Kießling, the assistant organist at Johann Sebastian Bach's church in Leipzig, Germany, is returning to Union for a one-week residency during the first week of April.
A new partnership between Union and Proctors gives students a chance to gain experience on the professional stage while providing the venerable historic theater with a pool of local actors.
“It’s a new link between us,” says Andrew Mannion, lecturer in scenic design. “Proctors is putting on a professional children’s theater piece and co-producing it with Union talent.”
Several students were recently awarded scholarships for summer academic programs. Devneet Singh ’21 received a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Punjabi in Chandigarh, India. James Segee-Wright ’20 received a Critical Language Scholarship to spend the summer studying Chinese in Xi’an, China. Tawreak Eddington ’21 was selected as a 2019 Mount Vernon Leadership Fellow.
Infrastructure and ecosystems is the theme of the annual Mohawk Watershed Symposium Friday, March 22, at College Park Hall.
Freshman U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-Rhinebeck will deliver the keynote address. Delgado represents the mostly rural 19th Congressional District, which includes the Schoharie Creek (part of the Mohawk) and a large section of the Hudson from the Capital District south to Poughkeepsie.
Three entrepreneurs who are addressing important challenges through creative social enterprises headlined the fourth annual Feigenbaum Forum on Innovation and Creativity.
“Social Innovation: Feed Insecurity, Recidivism and Barriers to Social Opportunity,” was held Thursday, March 7, in the Nott Memorial.
Vanessa Kirsch, founder and CEO of New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization, provided opening remarks.
Lewis Davis, professor of economics, was recently quoted in a New York Times article discussing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to tax opioid manufacturers and distributors. Read the story here.
The College will launch a minor in data analytics this fall, giving students the ability to apply fundamental scientific principles to the analysis of large, complex data sets.
Union joins a growing number of schools who recognize the need to prepare the next generation of students for the data analytics boom that touches a wide swath of disciplines, from English to engineering to psychology.
Jennifer Fredricks, dean of Academic Departments and Programs, published an article in the Journal of Adolescent Research, titled, "What Matters for Urban Adolescents’ Engagement and Disengagement in School: A Mixed Methods Study." She also published a chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning, titled “Measuring Student Engagement: An Overview of Methods, Challenges, and New Directions
