Union in the Media

“The Spaces Between,” this year’s Winter Dance Concert, was recently featured in the Daily Gazette.

Thirty-one dancers performed in 10 original pieces choreographed by students and faculty in the Yulman Theater.

To view a photo gallery, visit the Gazette's website (a subscription may be required to access content).

New research by Allison Malatesta ’24 and Jeff Corbin, the Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Life Sciences, show that parts of Schenectady that were redlined have, to this day, fewer and smaller trees than other areas of the city.

Their research has been published in the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.

The Daily Gazette recently featured the study on its front page. A subscription may be required to read the article.

To read the original story on Union's news site, visit the website.

Elizabeth Kiss, an Oxford-trained philosopher and former college president who most recently served as CEO of the Rhodes Trust, has been selected as the 20th president of Union College.

Kiss (pronounced ‘quiche’) will succeed David Harris, who announced last fall he would be stepping down at the end of the current academic year after seven years. Kiss begins her new role July 1.

The announcement was featured in a number of media outlets, including the Times Union, Daily Gazette, Albany Business Review, WAMC, Spectrum News and News10ABC, Inside Higher Ed, University Business and Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Some outlets may have a paywall.

“All that is Gathered,” a three-person exhibition curated by Allison Conley, lecturer of visual arts in printmaking and drawing, opened Jan. 8 in the Crowell and West galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

The three – Golnar Adili, Kristina Bivona and Karen Lederer – are artists whose printmaking practice fundamentally informs their work, permeating sculpture, painting, installation and craft.

The Daily Gazette recently previewed the exhibit. A subscription may be required to access the article.

To learn more, read a story on Union's news site.

Marcus Hotaling, director of the Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center and past president of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors, shared his concerns about student mental health rankings with Forbes. A subscription may be required to access the article.

Hotaling joined Union in 2007.

Members of Theta Delta Chi fraternity recently paid a visit to Liberty ARC in Amsterdam for their local service week.

Liberty ARC provides services to people with disabilities

The fraternity brought football-themed crafts and played games with the people supported by Liberty. Members of the Union College football team also signed autographs and took some pictures.

The event was covered by WNYT-13, the local NBC affiliate.

To view a clip of the event, visit the website.

Joshua Hart, associate professor of psychology, collaborated with two professors at the University of South Florida on an op-ed for The Conversation, "Time to Freak Out? How the existential terror of hurricanes can fuel climate change denial."

The three explain how climate-change denial functions as a psychological defense against the existential fear sparked by extreme weather events like Florida's recent hurricanes, as the threat of species annihilation can be too overwhelming to confront.

Additionally, for some, acknowledging climate change threatens core ideologies that provide a sense of stability and purpose, leading (ironically) to a stronger denial response when natural disasters occur. They argue for reframing climate change as a shared, actionable challenge, integrating solutions into ideologies that can empower collective resilience and meaningful action.

Hart joined Union in 2007.

An exhibit highlighting the history of LGBTQ was recently featured in the Daily Gazette.

“Matthew Leifheit: Gay Archive,” a solo exhibition in the Crowell and West galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, opened in September and will run through Nov. 12.

To read the story in the Gazette, visit the website. A subscription may be required to access the content.

To learn more, visit the Union College news site.

Union College student dancers will perform with members of Eisenhower Dance Detroit during the troupe's four-day residency at the College Oct. 15-18, culminating with a performance at The Egg in Albany.

The Times Union and Daily Gazette previewed the upcoming performances. A subscription may be required to access the articles.

To learn more about the residency, visit the College's news site.