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Matthew Wolford '16 was recently featured in the West Onondaga County Journal. The story focused on his ongoing experiences in Uganda as a current Minerva Fellow.

At Union, Wolford was a member of Golub House, men's crew and Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Read more about him here.

Lewis Davis, professor of economics, co-authored an article, "Culture and the Regulation of Entry," in the Journal of Comparative Economics. The paper, available here, argues that individualism plays a key role in explaining the degree to which countries regulate the formation of new firms.

Andrew Morris, associate professor of history, reviewed Douglas Brinkley’s new book, “Rightful Heritage: Franklin Roosevelt and the Land of America,” at a recent event at the Schenectady County Public Library.

Megan Ferry, associate professor of Chinese and Asian Studies and chair of the Modern Languages Department, was elected to the executive committee to the Association of Departments of Foreign Language for a three-year term. The national organization informs institutions about issues confronting the field and developing policies and best practices.

Several letters to the editor to Mechanical Engineering were in praise of an article by Frank Wicks, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering. The piece, “Pipelines for War and Peace,” describes the crucial role of U.S. oil in winning World War II. German submarines off the coast were destroying oil tankers and this wartime emergency was solved by construction of oil and gas pipelines from Texas to the Northeast.

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Aurora Butera '16 was recently featured in the Sun Community News.

The story focused on the College for Every Student organization and the guidance its fellows -- like Butera -- give young people who are planning their futures. At Union, Butera spent a term abroad in Italy and was involved with Alpha Delta Lambda.

Bradley Hays, associate professor of political science, was a recent guest on "Congressional Corner" on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio. He discussed why it's too late for Merrick Garland to be nominated for the Supreme Court.

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.

Eric McDowell, assistant athletic director and sports information director, was featured in the fall edition of NCAA Champion Magazine. “Take this Job and Love it” profiled a day in the life of a sports information director and chronicled his career.

Tomas Dvorak, chair of the Economics Department, wrote an op-ed on college retirement plans for The Chronicle of Higher Education. His research interests are in the design of retirement plans, performance measurement, financial literacy and conflicts of interest in financial markets. Dvorak serves as a fiduciary of Union College’s defined contribution retirement plan. Read the op-ed here.

Women’s basketball coach Mary Ellen Burt recently celebrated 300 wins with the College. She currently leads all Liberty League women’s coaches with the most wins. Burt also coaches the women’s golf team. Read more about the milestone here.

A chapter by Zoe Oxley, professor of political science, was included in The Political Psychology of Women in U.S. Politics. “Gender and the Socialization of Party Identification” explores whether children are more likely to adopt the partisan affiliation of their mothers or their fathers.

Research by Lewis Davis, professor of economics, about the links between rainfall patterns, collectivism and economic development was recently featured on WAMC's “The Academic Minute.” The segment can be heard here.

Inside Higher Ed published an op-ed by Christine Henseler, professor of Spanish. “Humanities and Diversity: A Tale of Two Crises” can be read here.

Teresa Meade, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture, is the recipient of a 2016 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute research grant. The award supports interdisciplinary topics concerning Jewish gender studies. Her project, “’We don’t become refugees by choice’: A Life from Poland to California, 1939 to 2014,” is a biography of Mia Truskier, a Jewish woman who escaped from Nazi-occupied Poland in 1940. Truskier lived clandestinely during World War II in Italy and eventually settled in California. She advocated for refugees from Central America and the Caribbean and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the East Bay Sanctuary in Oakland until her death at 94.

Daniel Mosquera, associate professor of Spanish, published an article, "What Does Trash have to do with Revolutions? Re-thinking Trash and the Renewal of Political Ecologies," in a collection titled University and Society within the Context of Arab Revolutions and New Humanism. The collection, which analyzes the Arab revolutions through an interdisciplinary and transnational lens, was published in English with introductions in English and Arabic.

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Lewis Davis, professor of economics, was recently featured on WAMC's "The Academic Minute."

The daily program features professors from colleges and universities around the world sharing their research. It airs on public radio stations across the country.

Davis examines whether individualistic societies are richer or poorer than collectivist ones.

To listen, click here.

Tomas Dvorak, chair of the Economics Department, wrote an op-ed on college retirement plans that was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. His research interests are in the design of retirement plans, performance measurement, financial literacy and conflicts of interest in financial markets. His work has been published in top academic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy and the Journal of Retirement.

He recently published a study in the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, "Do 401K plan advisors take their own advice?"

Dvorak also serves as a fiduciary of Union College’s defined contribution retirement plan.

To read his op-ed in the Chronicle, click here (subscription may be required).

Actor James Franco visited campus recently to shoot scenes for an upcoming movie. A number of Union students were extras for the scenes and film study students helped wit the shoot.

To read a story in The Daily Gazette, click here.

To view a photo gallery in the Times Union, click here.

The College was selected to host the only U.S. Senate debate between incumbent New York Democrat Charles Schumer and the Republican challenger, Wendy Long.

The debate was Sunday, Oct. 30, in the Nott Memorial.

More than a dozen media outlets covered the debate, including the New York Times.

To read the Times story, click here.

John Dooley '65 was recently featured on vtdigger.org. The story focused on his legal career and impending retirement from Vermont’s Supreme Court. He is one of the state’s longest sitting Supreme Court justices, having joined the bench 30 years ago. During his time at Union, Dooley was a member of Kappa Alpha and WRUC Radio.

Read the story here.