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Former Director of WHO speaks at the Nott

April 18, 2018

Former Executive Director of the World Health Organization Jacob Kumaresan, M.D., gave a talk at the Nott Memorial last Thursday, April 12, 2018. Organized by the Leadership in Medicine Student Advisory Council, this was the second holding of the Annual Spea...

Cuban Embassy Diplomat talks on U.S.-Cuban relations

April 18, 2018

Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture Theresa Meade hosted the event. According to Meade, the talk encompassed a course on social movement being taught here at Union. Titled “A New Path: A Talk on U.S. Cuba Relations,” the talk attracted ma...

Community hosts ceremony with walk for Holocaust Remembrance Day

April 18, 2018

Hillel and AEPi co-hosted a walk around the Nott to commemorate the Holocaust this past Thursday. This came on the annual Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is the 27th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar. Henry...

Seventh Annual Pride Walk to celebrate LGBTQ community to take place Saturday

April 18, 2018

On April 21st, 2018, Union College will hold its seventh annual Pride Walk. The walk is open to all who wish to support the LGBTQ+ community. In the past, students, professors and Schenectady citizens of all ages have marched in rai...

Fire and Ice

March 8, 2018

Speaker discusses Korean Peninsula issues and challenges in light of Olympics

March 8, 2018

On Tuesday, February 27, author and Director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies John Feffer led a discussion on the effects of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. He discussed how when North an...

Final interview with President Ainlay

March 8, 2018

In light of President Stephen C. Ainlay’s extensive contribution to the campus community and his upcoming retirement, the Board of Trustees selected him as the 224th Commencement speaker and chose to name a portion of the new Science and Engineering complex after h...

Q&A on Recent Arthur Biography by Greenberger

March 8, 2018

On February 22, the Concordiensis interviewed author Scott Greenberger about his recently published book on Chester A. Arthur, Class of 1848. Q: Why Chester A. Arthur? A: I liked the idea that he hasn’t been written about. People don’t...

Students teach English in China in collaboration with the Rassias Center

James Segee

February 22, 2018

-Wright During this past winter break from November 29 to December 17, Mikaela Buryj ’20 and Mayte Martinez ’18 participated in a collaboration between the Rassias Center at Dartmouth College and Union College where they ta...

Dr. David Harris announced as new Union president

February 20, 2018

Grants

February 8, 2018