Union in the Media

Nearly 500 students showcased their intellectual and artistic prowess Friday, May 10, as part of the 29th annual Steinmetz Symposium.

The all-day event included a diverse lineup of oral presentations, poster sessions and exhibits highlighting student research as well as dance and musical performances, an art exhibit and other activities.

Bradley Hays, associate professor of political science, was a recent guest on "Congressional Corner" on WAMC, Northeast Public Radio. He discussed the 2020 presidential election.

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.

An op-ed examining Attorney General William P. Barr's view of presidential authority by Bradley Hays, associate professor of political science, was published by the Washington Post’s Made by History section.

Hays joined Union in 2008.

A new lecture series, the Union College Forum on Constructive Engagement, debuted with a conversation featuring a former white supremacist and a Sikh whose father was killed in a mass shooting at a temple.

A number of media outlets covered the event, including WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, the Times Union, Spectrum News and News10, the local ABC affiliate.

“Son of Prince Edward County,” a new book by Twitty Styles, professor emeritus, was featured in the Daily Gazette. A subscription may be required.

The annual PRIDE Walk at Union was featured in the Daily Gazette.

Members of the men's and women's hockey teams recently hosted a special event at Messa Rink for teens with special disabilities.

Spectrum News visited campus for a segment on the event.

Working with James Hedrick, senior lecturer in Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Lisa Gu' 19 has designed an automated greenhouse watering system. Her project is among 20 other systems built as part of Cultivating Resources for Employment with Assistive Technology.

CREATE, as it is known, is an effort by the New York State Industries for the Disabled to recruit student inventors and tinkerers to make devices that will ease entry to the workforce for disabled people, whose unemployment rate is significantly higher than the general population.

To learn more, visit the Daily Gazette (subscription may be required).

A new partnership between Union and Proctors gives students a chance to gain experience on the professional stage while providing the venerable historic theater with a pool of local actors.

“It’s a new link between us,” says Andrew Mannion, lecturer in scenic design. “Proctors is putting on a professional children’s theater piece and co-producing it with Union talent.”

The Proctors enterprise is called the PB&J Café, and the inaugural show is “Stuart Little,” the classic children’s tale by E.B. White about a mild-mannered mouse born into an ordinary New York family and trying to survive in a human world.

The show was recently featured in the Times Union.

Inside Higher Ed posted an op-ed by President David R. Harris who argued that campus is the place for constructive engagement, not free speech. The op-ed was in response to a recent executive order by President Trump on campus free speech.