Catching up with...

As the director of Special Collections and Archives at Schaffer Library, Sarah Schmidt stewards some of the College’s most precious possessions and goes to great lengths to make what she can available to the campus community as well as the general public.

The lengths a woodworker will go to acquire a prime piece of wood can at times border on the extreme. This is certainly the case for Jeff Jauregui.

Art, family and a strong Union legacy are among the major influences in Frank Rapant ’07’s life.

Prateek Arora, assistant professor of economics, was born in India.

An administrative assistant for the departments of Anthropology, Classics and Philosophy, and the Religious Studies program, Leahanna Pelish ’07 has worked at Union since 2016.

Mercedes Mayna Medrano has been a visiting professor of Spanish and Hispanic studies since fall 2022.

At 5 a.m., when most of campus is asleep, Weiwei Zhang and a crew of about 60 are on a mission, hustling between academic buildings and residence halls

Sarina Kuersteiner joined Union in 2022 as an assistant professor of history, specializing in the cultural, economic and legal history of the premodern Mediterranean.

Paul Buckowski joined Union in September 2022 as the college photographer in the Communications and Marketing office.

Growing up in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., John Rieffel had access to some of the world’s best cultural institutions.