Union in the Media

On the 74th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, Andrew Morris, an associate professor of history, discusses its impact on today's college students.

To read the front page article in the Daily Gazette, click here.

Lewis Davis, associate professor of economics, was recently featured on WAMC's 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 discusses his research into racial solidarity and social status.

To listen, click here.

The College recently announced it will modify its centuries-old motto to add the French word for “sisters.”

Under the change, which was recently approved by the Board of Trustees, Union’s motto now reads Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères et sœurs (“Under the laws of Minerva, we all become brothers and sisters”).

This replaces the original French motto, Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères (“Under the laws of Minerva we all become brothers"), which was adopted shortly after Union’s founding in 1795.

The Associated Press, the world's largest newsgathering service, included the College in a roundup of other changes on campuses across the country.

The AP story was picked up by dozens of media outlets around the world, including ABC News, San Francisco Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal-Constituition.

A group of engineering students recently presented an idea for an ice skating rink in Schenectady to the City Council.

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

In a move that supporters believe is long overdue, the College will modify its centuries-old motto to add the French word for “sisters.”

Under the change, which was recently approved by the Board of Trustees, Union’s motto now reads Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères et sœurs (“Under the laws of Minerva, we all become brothers and sisters”).

This replaces the original French motto, Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères (“Under the laws of Minerva we all become brothers"), which was adopted shortly after Union’s founding in 1795.

To read more in Inside Higher Ed, click here.

In a move that supporters believe is long overdue, the College will modify its centuries-old motto to add the French word for “sisters.”

Under the change, which was recently approved by the Board of Trustees, Union’s motto now reads Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères et sœurs (“Under the laws of Minerva, we all become brothers and sisters”).

This replaces the original French motto, Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères (“Under the laws of Minerva we all become brothers"), which was adopted shortly after Union’s founding in 1795.

To learn more in the Daily Gazette, click here.

In a move that supporters believe is long overdue, the College will modify its centuries-old motto to add the French word for “sisters.”

Under the change, which was recently approved by the Board of Trustees, Union’s motto now reads Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères et sœurs (“Under the laws of Minerva, we all become brothers and sisters”).

This replaces the original French motto, Sous les lois de Minerve nous devenons tous frères (“Under the laws of Minerva we all become brothers"), which was adopted shortly after Union’s founding in 1795.

To learn more in the Times Union, click here.

Kiana Miller '16 received the Leadership in Diversity Award from the Greater Albany Leadership Council on Inclusion. Miller was one of three local college students to receive the award in recognition of her leadership on diversity and inclusion at Union.

Eric Rose ’16 and Nicholas Webb, visiting assistant professor of computer science, attended the Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Social Robots for Public Settings at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System in Hamburg, Germany. They presented a paper, “Determining appropriate first contact distance: trade-offs in human-robot interaction experiment design," in the Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Social Robots for Public Settings. Computer science faculty Aaron Cass and Kristina Striegnitz were also involved in the research. Funding to participate in this conference came from a Faculty Research Travel Grant and a Student Conference Travel Grant.

A short story by Kimmo Rosenthal, professor of mathematics, was recently published in volume 9 of the literary journal EDGE. The title and epigraph of Dancing the Quadrille come from Franz Kafka's posthumously published “Blue Octavo Notebooks.”

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Elizabeth Minkin '96 recently became president of the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds. A fourth generation Meyerhoff family member, she has played an integral role in developing and guiding the organization’s impact and efforts to improve the quality of life in Baltimore.

Lori Marso, professor of political science, has been awarded the Contemporary Political Theory Annual Prize for her article, “Solidarity sans identity: Richard Wright and Simone de Beauvoir theorize political subjectivity”, in Contemporary Political Theory, Volume 13, Number 3 (2014), pp. 242-262. The judges said this about the article: "In this article Lori Marso weaves rich theoretical insight into a gripping and moving narrative of the historical and intellectual encounter between Richard Wright and Simone de Beauvoir. Moving between France, Africa and the USA, Marso charts the intellectual journeys of both thinkers and their eventual rejection of the constraints of identity in favor of an existential freedom anchored in solidarity that crosses identities and borders. Not only does the reader get a wonderfully deep sense of the real intellectual struggles both figures experienced in thinking through what freedom might mean for the black and female subject but the narrative also forces the reader to think in general terms about what this might mean for us today."

Katherine Pouliot '16 and Carol Weisse, professor of psychology, had their paper "First year analysis of a new, home-based palliative care program offered jointly by a community hospital and local visiting nurse service" accepted to the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. The research is the result of a community based learning research project with Ellis Medicine and the Visiting Nurse Service of Northeastern New York. Co-authors are Dr. David Pratt and Phil DiSorbo '71.

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