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October 29, 2026

LIM students finish second in national competition to solve a healthcare challenge

A group of students in Union’s Leadership in Medicine program recently finished second in the Penn State Health Policy and Administration Virtual Case Competition. Hosted by the Department of Health Policy and Administration and sponsored by Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, the competition featured students from 20 undergraduate institutions. Students were asked to create a schedule for overlapping TKA’s (total knee arthoplasty or replacements). This would allow the attending surgeon to d

October 29, 2026

For the record: Week of Oct. 30, 2026

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October 29, 2026

Cole Belmont, Union’s Makerspace maven, to be honored as Innovator of the Year

On a recent weekday afternoon, Cole Belmont, Union’s Makerspace director, stood beside a CNC router (computer numerical control) in a lab in the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts. Enoch Fashola ’30, a mechanical engineering major from Houston, listened intently as Belmont explained how they were going to use the automated, computer-driven cutting and milling machine to create three-dimensional tiles for display in the lab. “We can make complex, precise cuts with this,” Belmont said. “It opens up a whole ran

October 22, 2026

Catching up with...Junko Ueno

Junko Ueno, professor of Japanese, grew up in Fukuoka, one of the prefectures of Kyushu Island, Japan. She loved learning English as a child, and a part-time job teaching English during her college days inspired her to study abroad after graduation. While working on her M.A. in TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) and applied linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ueno started teaching Japanese as well. She found tremendous joy in teaching and relearning her native language and

October 22, 2026

Death of a textbook: 19th-century mock funerals used to mark the end of a term

Calder Baker ’29 was sorting through material in Special Collections when he discovered an old student scrapbook. Belonging to Frederick Richards, Class of 1888, the weathered book contained what one would expect for chronicling a student’s time on campus: menus, newspaper clippings and information related to his fraternity. Placed prominently at the front of the book, however, were mementos of a long-dead tradition: the burial/cremation of textbooks. This included special programs for the “Burial of Algebr

October 22, 2026

For the record: Week of Oct. 23, 2026

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October 21, 2026

Department of Visual Arts hosts faculty and staff exhibit, “Practices”

As part of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, the department is pleased to present Practices: the Visual Arts Department Faculty and Staff Exhibition. This show brings together more than 60 works across a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, photography, robotic art, sculpture, installation, and theatrical costume and set design.

October 15, 2026

For the record: Week of Oct. 16, 2026

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October 14, 2026

Peruvian caves sound the alarm for global long-term drought, a team of researchers at Union discover

Caves in the tropical Peruvian Andes hold clues amassed over the past 450,000 years, which suggest a strong possibility for an alarming reduction in rainfall across a third of the globe, according to a new study. The long-term drought is a troubling issue for the more than 2.7 billion people on Earth who depend on monsoon rains for fresh water. The research was published this week in Nature, the world’s leading journal of peer-reviewed science research.

October 8, 2026

For the record: Week of Oct. 9, 2026

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