Union in the Media

An op-ed by Marcus Hotaling, director of the Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center and president of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors, was featured by Inside Higher Ed.

The op-ed "Teletherapy: Campus Counseling Center Friend or Foe?" looks at the growing trend of campus counseling centers partnering with teletherapy companies.

Hotaling joined Union in 2007.

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 Chronicle of Higher Education.

Hotaling shared his expertise on a new report about student-led programs as key mental health resources.

The AUCCCD is the largest organization of campus mental health leaders in the world. In his role, Hotaling helps guide campus mental health policy and initiatives at the national level.

He joined Union in 2007.

Andrea Barrett ’74, winner of the National Book Award, recently donated her archives to Union.

The materials include manuscripts and multiple drafts of most of her books, numerous notebooks filled with ideas, research notes, essays about writing and lectures given at writing conferences. The drafts contain margin notes, wholesale edits and other changes that demonstrate how much the work evolved over time.

The Daily Gazette spoke with Barrett about her gift, and the role Union has played in her life. A subscription may be needed to access the story.

The College recently worked with Make-A-Wish Northeast New York, the Schenectady Police Department and others to help Connor Hayhurst, a 15-year-old Ballston Spa teen, receive his wish to be a police officer for a day.

As part of the daylong event, the teen arrived at the Nott Memorial in the morning to investigate the “theft” of a painting. He processed several "clues," including a footprint left behind by the suspect.

After visiting other locations in the Capital Region, Connor recovered the "stolen" painting and returned to campus Tuesday afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter that landed on Rugby Field. He presented the painting to President David Harris as members of the campus community looked on.

The event was featured in the Daily Gazette (a subscription may be required to access content).

WRGB, the local CBS affiliate, was also on hand to cover the event.

Joshua Hart, associate professor of psychology, was quoted in Discover magazine in a piece titled, "The Psychology Behind Cults."

Hart and his student, Molly Graether ‘17, conducted research which suggests that people with certain personality traits and cognitive styles are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

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.