By Academic Year

Find a past exhibition by academic year at Union College.  The academic calendar year would include exhibits opened anytime between September and August of a given year. 

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3D Virtual Tour: Chitra Ganesh, Sultana's Dream

Student Site: Mallory Nelson. Winter 2021.
A virtual tour of Sultana's Dream, a portfolio of twenty-seven linocuts created in 2018 by contemporary artist, Chitra Ganesh.

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A Comparative Look at China's Influence in Fashion

Student site: Jacquelyn O'Reilly. Winter 2021.
China has had a tumultuous history of struggling to solidify its position as a world power in the eyes of the West. However, over the course of history they have gone from being exploited by western powers to dominating the global economy and having one of the loudest voices on international issues.

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A Tribute to Asian American Artists

Faculty Site: Sheri Lullo, Spring 2025.
Asian American Artists for AAPI Month.

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American Environmental History (HST 225)

Faculty Site: Andy Morris, Fall 2020.
We will use this site to lay out in time and space what we’re learning together this term about Americans’ interactions with their environment over the past few centuries.

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American Environmental History (HST 225)

Faculty site: Andy Morris Fall 2021.
We will use this site to lay out in time and space what we’re learning together this term about Americans’ interactions with their environment over the past few centuries. You’ll be contributing material weekly over the course of the term, and you will also contribute a set of items derived from your “hometown environmental history” research as part of your final project.

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American Environmental History (HST 225)

Faculty site: Andy Morris, Fall 2025.
We will use this site to lay out in time and space what we’re learning together this term about Americans’ interactions with their environment over the past few centuries. You’ll be contributing material weekly over the course of the term, and you will also contribute a set of items derived from your “hometown environmental history” research as part of your final project.

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Black to the Future (FYI)

Faculty Site: Robyn Reed.
We have imagined parasitic alien species, an intergalactic rebellion across the universe, and transporters that will allow us to travel at the molecular level, yet we couldn’t imagine Black people in the distant—and not so distant—future?

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COVID-19 : Schenectady and Quito

Student Site: Carolina Missura. Spring 2020.
My COVID-19 experience while at Union College.

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Differential Calculus (MTH 110)

Faculty Site: Joy Wang. Fall 2020.
Mathematical thinking and reasoning can be used to express ideas symbolically, numerically, graphically, and practically.

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Differential Equations (MTH 130, section 1)

Faculty Site: Mariano. Winter 2023.
This course will cover various global challenges in which differential equations are used to study. Some of these included Populations Modeling and Species Conservation, Pollution/global warming (Mixing Problems), Safety in engineering designs (Tacoma Narrows Bridge) and Turbulence.

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Differential Equations (MTH 130, section 2 )

Faculty site: Mariano. Winter 2023.
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

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Differential Equations (MTH 130, Spring 2025)

Faculty Site: Dr. Phanuel Mariano, Spring 2025.
This course will cover various global challenges in which differential equations are used to study. Some of these included Populations Modeling and Species Conservation, Pollution/global warming (Mixing Problems), Safety in engineering designs (Tacoma Narrows Bridge) and Turbulence.

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Differential Vector Calculus (MTH 115)

Faculty Site: Joy Wang Spring 2021.
Mathematical thinking and reasoning can be used to express ideas symbolically, numerically, graphically, and practically.

Digitizing the Past
Digitizing the Past

Faculty Site: Amy Juarez, Spring 2025.
The digital age and the medieval period–two disparate phases of history–may at first blush appear to have nothing in common. Yet, as medieval scholars have shown, this myth is best dispelled in and through the medieval manuscript, a physical object representing the convergence of text and technology in its earliest form.

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Exploring Public Perceptions of Climate Change

Student site: Bethany Costello, Fall 2020.
Similar to what has happened with COVID-19, confusion can easily arise when the scientific method happens in the public eye and findings change as hypotheses are changed or updated as new data becomes available. This doesn’t mean that the overarching themes are incorrect, just because a few points may be wrong.

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Hell No, We Won't Go! The Power of Campus Protests (1965-1975)

Student Site: Savannah N. Jelks, Spring 2020.
This exhibit, using Union College as a case study, examines the importance of protests on college campuses during this time period. By shedding light on the various protests at Union during these years, current student visitors will be able to compare and contrast their experiences. What made this era unique? What are campus protests like today?

here2help.Schenectady

Student Site: Eastwood Yeboah, Fall 2024.
An innovative resource page seeking to help Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) within Schenectady, New York, get access to complementary and alternative forms of mental health treatment.

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Integral Vector Calculus (MTH 117)

Faculty Site: Joy Wang. Winter 2021.
Mathematical thinking and reasoning can be used to express ideas symbolically, numerically, graphically, and practically.

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Mapping the History of Mexico

Faculty Site: Elena McGrath. Spring 2021.
Mexico is a land full of history. It is a source of some of the world’s great architecture, art, social movements, and revolutions. The stories of its peoples are the backbone for this course, begining before the arrival of Hernan Córtés in 1519 and ending with 21st century conflicts. Over the course of ten weeks, we will highlight important moments of struggle, innovation, and creativity

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Mathematical Methods for Digital Humanities (MTH067)

Faculty site: Kim Plofker, Spring 2025.
This course explores and applys some of the mathematical concepts and techniques that power many of the major digital tools used in humanities research and scholarship. These include software and systems for textual analysis and language processing, network analysis, data visualization, and AI generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs).

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Nazi Science, Technology, and Medicine

Faculty site: Mark Walker, Winter 2022.
Although most of its actors were unwavering conservatives, the practical implications of the demands they voiced -- sometimes loudly, often quietly -- were largely congruent with fascist ideology. They played an important role in aligning history as an academic field with the needs of the new Nazi system.

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Nott from a Distance

Student Site: Mallory Nelson. Spring 2020.
The Nott is the center of our Union campus and a big part of what makes our campus what it is, we all see it everyday whether it be walking to Reamer for lunch, or to ISEC for class, or wherever else we may go.

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Photogrammetry Project: East Asian Ceramic

Student site: Lily Crissy. Spring 2020.
Digitization of 3D select Asian ceramics from the Union College Permanent Collection.

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Qingming Shanghe tu 清明上河圖

Faculty Site: Sheri Lullo, Fall 2021.
This site invites students to annotate certain scenes of a famous scroll from China, using subjects or themes to contribute rich dimension to our reading of this famous work.

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Reform and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean

Faculty Site: Elena McGrath. Fall 2020.
What is a nation? What is progress and how can we measure it? What is the nature of a just society? How can a country built out of a colonial empire create egalitarian, participatory nations, and is that a desirable goal? Can you get a just society by reforming the system, or is a revolution your only option? In this course, we seek to answer these questions by exploring the history of Modern Latin America. Through lectures, readings, music and art, we will examine moments where peoples and governments have sought to make and change the modern world.

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Samurai Armor

Faculty Site: Joyce Madancy, Spring 2024.
Students will use this website to upload information about the history of samurai arms and armor (as well as a few other things) to prepare for our field trip to the Met, and also to gain some familiarity about the tools used by Japanese warriors.

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Stories of U

Student Collaboration
Stories of U is a Mellon Foundation-funded grant project inviting members of the Union community to explore who they want to be through the power of reflection. It is a student-designed and student-run product.

Erasure of Native American Culture
The Erasure of Native American culture in the Adirondacks

Student site: Maryam Ramjoh. Summer 2020.
As Native Americans across the country have faced suffering at the hands of colonialism, their contributions to current American culture are often overlooked. The Adirondack Mountains of northeastern New York are no exception to this. Before European arrival in the Adirondacks, the land was occupied by the Haudenosaunee, which includes the Six Nations: Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Tuscarora, and Oneida.

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The Social Distancing Experience

Community Collaboration: Winter 2020.
Social Distancing: Stories from the Union Community captures the unique experiences from students, faculty, staff, and community members of Union College, Schenectady, and the region during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Chinese Stone Lion
The Story of Union's Chinese Stone Lion

Faculty Site: Sheri Lullo, Spring 2026.
Since the late 19th century, the Chinese stone lion sculpture was routinely coated in paint as part of various campus events and student rivalries in the area. In 2021, Union College began the process to restore the lion to its original form. This site provides historical context, imagery, and timelines that document the lion on campus and its restoration.