Union in the Media

A team of researchers, led by Donald T. Rodbell, the John and Jane Wold Professor of Geosciences, have shown that glaciers in the tropical Andes mountains have been in sync with polar ice extent in Antarctica and the Arctic for nearly a million years.

The research was published in Nature, the world’s leading journal of peer-reviewed science research.

To read more about the study, visit Union's news site.

Lori Marso, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has written an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books about writer-director Audrey Diwan’s critically acclaimed film, “Happening.”

Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s top prize in 2021, “Happening” chronicles the efforts of a college student in 1960s France to have an illegal abortion in order to continue her studies. Based on an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, the film is timely because of the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.

To read Marso’s essay, visit the Los Angeles Review of Books website.

Union celebrated its commencement on Sunday, June 12, with more than 500 members of the Class of 2022.

The featured speaker was Kate White '72.One of the first women to graduate from Union after the College began enrolling women full-time in 1970, White is a New York Times best-selling suspense novelist and former magazine editor-in-chief.

The Daily Gazette featured White and other members of her class in a front-page story about their experiences.

The newspaper also featured a photo gallery from commencement.

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Chad Orzel, associate professor of physics and astronomy, was recently quoted in the New York Times for a piece about punctuality in a time of a pandemic. Orzel's latest book is "A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks."

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Orzel was also quoted on Today.com about a woman whose two ceramic bowls got stuck together after dishwashing captured the attention of Twitter.

Orzel joined Union in 2001.

Renowned chemical engineer Robert Langer, a pioneer in the development of the mRNA vaccines used to help combat COVID-19, will speak Wednesday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

He recently appeared on WAMC, Northeast Radio's The Roundtable, to discuss his visit to Union. 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.

Langer also spoke to the Times Union. A subscription may be required to access the content.

Marcus Hotaling, director of the Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center and president of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors, was quoted in The Hechinger Report in a piece about the student mental health crisis.

The AUCCCD is the largest organization of campus mental health leaders in the world

The Albany Business Review profiled Roger Woolsey, the new executive director of the Becker Career Center. A subscription may be required to access article.

Woolsey joined Union in December.

The Nott Memorial, the centerpiece of Union's historic campus, is undergoing repairs to fix a leaky roof.

So for about the next three months, the College's marvelous feat of High Victorian Gothic is off limits to the campus and the public. It is the longest closure for the Nott since it went offline for nearly 18 months as it underwent an extensive multi-million dollar restoration completed in time for the College’s bicentennial in 1995.

Both the Times Union and the Daily Gazette featured photo galleries of the ongoing work.

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