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A Minerva House is renamed Harris House in honor of President David Harris

More than 20 years after it opened its intellectual doors as one of the original Minerva Houses, Green House has a new name: Harris House. The campus community gathered Thursday night to officially dedicate Harris House, named in honor of President David R. Harris for his leadership and contributions as Union’s 19th president.

Remembering Barbara Boyer, biologist

Catching up with…Colin Gleason '11

Colin Gleason '11, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, with his wife, Ellen, and their two children, Henry and Charlotte.

Steinmetz Symposium a rite of spring for 35 years

Friday, May 9

Student presenting research, pointing to a poster at the Steinmetz Research Symposium Poster Day.

Professor Heather Watson part of team awarded NASA grant to study liquids in ocean worlds

An artist's concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Mathematical minds converge for conference at Union

Union welcomed 300 students and faculty from nearly 50 colleges and universities on Saturday, April 5, when it hosted the annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. The largest conference of its kind in the U.S., its goal is to provide undergraduates with the experience of attending and/or presenting at a professional mathematics meeting. Topics covered included abstract algebra, analysis, data science, graph theory and statistics.

Does it matter if lakes freeze?

Caitlin Williams '23

Caitlin Williams '23

Nott Logical: Student band hits all the right notes

On the warmest day of the year, when students emerged from hibernation to excitedly awaken the campus from its winter slumber, four musicians crowded into a cramped space of the WRUC studios on the fourth floor of Reamer Campus Center. Performing as Nott Logical, the four – Cray Case ‘25, Sam Dickinson ’27, Alex Ottavio ’25 and Gianna Talarico ’25 – forgo the sun on this early weeknight to rehearse for two hours. Before long, they launch into “Take Me Out” the 2004 hit by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferd

Emmy-award winning journalist Joanna Stern '06 to be Commencement speaker

Joanna Stern '06

Union to launch $60 million project to advance engineering and computer science programs

A rendering of the new Templeton Engineering building

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