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December 2024

December 2024 News Archive

December 3, 2024

Student Investment Fund tops $1 million

Student Investment Fund Curtis Butler

December 2, 2024

Golden giant: Union’s spectacular ginkgo tree a crowd-pleaser for nearly two centuries

When Isaac Jackson began to meticulously cultivate a garden on the College grounds in the mid-19th century, one of the exotic pieces he included was a small shrub of a ginkgo tree from Japan. A persistently hardy species that features fan-shaped leaves that burst into spectacular golden hues in autumn, the ginkgo is considered a living fossil as its origin dates back to the days of dinosaurs. Nearly two centuries after the ginkgo tree took root on campus, the striking specimen is the most distinctive elemen

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