Union in the Media

Union’s faculty, staff and students are often mentioned in local, national and international media outlets. Among the outlets that have highlighted Union include the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, U.S. News and World Report, MONEY and the Associated Press.

Content on Union’s news site has been honored by the Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education (CASE).

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Why gender equality stalled

Stephanie Coontz - New York Times

The research of Lori J. Marso, professor of political science and director of Women’s and Gender Studies, and David Cotter, professor and chair of the Sociology Department,was referenced in a Sunday New York Times Review op-ed on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s international best seller, The Feminine Mystique.

To read the essay, click here.

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People in the news 04 - Jan 2013

Deidre Hill Butler, associate professor of sociology and director of Africana Studies, is featured in a promotional video for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway. To view the clip, click here.

Bruce Connolly, Schaffer Library head of public services, and Gail Golderman, digital services librarian, review a series of feminist material in the current Library Journal Review. To read the article, click here.

Chris Duncan, professor of sculpture, was profiled in the Gloversville Leader-Herald. The story was written by Features Editor Bill Ackerbauer.

Chad Orzel, associate professor of physics, provided expert opinion on a new study by an international team of scientists who tried to find out the actual size of a proton. Orzel is the author of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog.

“Concert,” a painting by Walter Hatke, the May I. and Walter C. Baker Professor of Visual Arts, is featured in an exhibit, The Annual: 2013, running through May 5 at the National Academy Museum in New York.

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Volunteer of the Week: Destinee Laquer ’14

Destinee Laquer ’14 is the Kenney Community Center Volunteer of the Week.

Among her many service activities, Laquer participated in the winter break community service mini-term to New Orleans, where she aided in rebuilding houses for hurricane and oil spill victims.

She also volunteered at COCOA House, tutoring and mentoring local children.

A managerial economics major and math minor, Laquer recently attended the Museum of Mathematics in New York City with the Albany Area Math Circle, service learning professor Mary O’Keeffe’s math outreach program for local youth.

During spring break, Laquer will volunteer with the New York City Urban Project’s Plunge program, which works to prevent human trafficking and other social injustices.

“Volunteering has been rewarding for me and has increased my sense of community as a citizen of the planet,” Laquer said.

A resident of Springfield, Mass., Laquer is also active in Union’s Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Dinner and Discussion around Diversity series.

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Ice time highlights rise of the machines

Jennifer Gish - Times Union

Fans at this weekend's inaugural Mayor's Cup men's hockey game between Union and RPI at the Times Union Center will be treated to an unusual shootout during the second intermission: Robo-Hockey.

Four teams of mechanical engineering students who designed and built the wheeled robots about the size of a briefcase will compete in a four-minute period Saturday night in front of thousands of spectators.

To read story from the front page of the Times Union, click here.

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Atomic scale: protons are smaller than thought

Fox News

Chad Orzel, associate professor of physics, provided expert opinion on a new study by an international team of scientists who tried to find out the actual size of a proton.

Orzel is the author of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog.

A number of news outlets and professional journals picked up the debate.

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Volunteer of the Week: MaryKate Farber ’15

By: Maura Driscoll '15

MaryKate Farber ’15 is the Kenney Community Center’s Volunteer of the Week.

A resident of the Wells House community service theme house, Farber dedicates much of her time to sponsoring various charity events each week with her house, as well as volunteering elsewhere.

As a first-year student, Farber participated in the community service pre-orientation and returned to it this year as a student leader.

Farber is also the president of U-ReBloom, a club that gathers flowers used at a variety of campus events and delivers them to local nursing homes, senior residences and other facilities. “I love going because you are able to see how having visitors really brightens the days of the residents,” she said.

Farber is a History and Art History double major from Oneonta, N.Y.

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Sun, Earth fuel Union building

Brian Nearing - Times Union

The Times Union recently featured the Peter Irving Wold Center in an article on green buildings in the state.

The Wold Center earned LEED Gold status, one of the highest honors for sustainable design. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, rewards best practices for a building’s energy, water and natural resource performance.

This marks the first building on Union’s campus to receive the coveted status.

To read the Times Union article, click here.

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People in the news 03 - Jan 2013

Lewis Davis, associate professor of economics, and Matthew Knauss '11 published “The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation” in the February issue of the Journal of Socio-Economics. The paper, which began as Knauss’ senior thesis, uses international survey data to investigate whether economic growth increases the preference for egalitarian social policy.

Deidre Hill Butler, associate professor of sociology and director of Africana Studies, was interviewed on Impact Program, a local current events cable interest show. The conversation focused on how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy is reflected in our nation today.

Choice Reviews has named a translation by Hans-Friedrich Mueller, the William D. Williams Professor of Classics, as an outstanding academic title for 2012. "Mueller's translation of Mehl's Römische Geschichtsschreibung (2001) offers homage to the work of a distinguished German scholar and teacher: it is both thorough and concise, covering virtually every known Roman historian from Q. Fabius Pictor (third century BCE) to the Christian universal histories of Eusebius, and beyond to Procopius (sixth century CE)," the review states. "This is the distillation of a lifetime's scholarship, a rich and invaluable resource. There is nothing like it in English, and it is much needed in the study of ancient Greco-Roman history: Mueller's translation reflects the scholarly German style in idiomatic and accessible English. Sure to become a handbook for all historians of the ancient world and scholars of historiography: indeed, for all classicists."

An essay by Ryan Semerad ’13 was published in Ephemeris 2012, an undergraduate journal of philosophy published by the Department of Philosophy. Semerad’s work is titled “Addiction and Language: An Analysis of Naked Lunch.” The issue also includes work by students from Bethel University (Minn.), Bowdoin College, Brooklyn College, Florida State University, George Washington University, the University of Illinois (Springfield) and Trinity College (Dublin). Editorial Board members were Julia Hotz ’15, Claire Kokoska ’15, Caleb Novins ’15, Trevor Martin ’14, Claire Nelson ’15, Dan Pallies ’15, Georgina Teasdale ’15 and Sam Walsh ’15. Also assisting in preparation of the journal were Brian Karimi-Pashaki ’12, Emily Lnenicka ’12 and James Sedlak ’12. Faculty advisor is Felmon Davis.

Edward Summers, the president's chief of staff, recently penned an op-ed for Huff Post College, calling for strict gun control laws.

Tomas Dvorak, associate professor of economics, recently presented a paper, “Do 401k Advisors Take Their Own Advice” at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in San Diego. It was part of a session, “Saving for the Common Man: Target Date Funds, Defaults and the Design of 401k Plans.”

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Union students, robots to show skills on ice this weekend

Justin Mason - Daily Gazette

Fans at this weekend's inaugural Mayor's Cup men's hockey game between Union and RPI at the Times Union Center will be treated to an unusual shootout during the second intermission: Robo-Hockey.

Four teams of mechanical engineering students who designed and built the wheeled robots about the size of a briefcase will compete in a four-minute period Saturday night in front of thousands of spectators.

To read about it in the Daily Gazette, click here.

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Making campuses safer

Edward Summers - Huff Post College

Edward Summers, the president's chief of staff, recently penned an op-ed for Huff Post College, calling for strict gun control laws.

To read the piece, click here.