Union College

Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795

Mechanisms as Minds

Tensegrity robots: He hopes to develop a robot that might navigate any landscape Before a signal even reaches your brain, your fingers can adjust the tension required to lift an object with their tendons. It’s a mechanism (fingers) acting as a mind – a phenomenon called morphological computation that John Rieffel, assistant professor of computer

Mechanisms as Minds

Making “Frozen Smoke” the Fast Way

Aerogels could improve some of our favorite machines, such as cars One day, Union College’s Aerogel Team’s novel way of making “frozen smoke” could improve some of our favorite machines, including cars. “When you hold aerogel it feels like nothing – like frozen smoke. It’s about 95 to 97 percent air,” said Ann Anderson, professor

Making “Frozen Smoke” the Fast Way

Can Fungi Replace Plastics?

Fungi have fantastic capabilities Fungi, with the exception of shitake and certain other mushrooms, tend to be something we associate with moldy bread or dank-smelling mildew. But they really deserve more respect. Fungi have fantastic capabilities and can be grown, under certain circumstances, in almost any shape and be totally biodegradable. And, if this weren’t

Can Fungi Replace Plastics?

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Union College Research

Survey: Nearly 90% of PhDs Feel Pandemic Has Affected Their Research
on April 18, 2021 at 11:35 am
A survey has found that nearly 90 per cent of Trinity’s PhD students feel their research has been negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Among issues affecting research, 16.7 per cent ...
Medical school leader urges sufficient funding for research
on April 18, 2021 at 6:45 am
Wang Chen, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, called for upgrading the country's medical research system and ensuring stable and sufficient funding ...
New college tour highlights slavery's shadow
on April 17, 2021 at 12:05 am
Consider the cases of the college’s namesake, John Dickinson, and founding trustee, Benjamin Rush, who lead off the six wayside markers making up a new “Dickinson and Slavery” historic walking tour.
My Biracial Stepson Wants to Go to a Racist Southern College
on April 16, 2021 at 1:12 pm
I went to a small state school in a small Southern town. I grew up in the suburbs of a large, urban Southern city, so I faced a lot of culture shock when I went there. The thing that surprised me the ...
MSU Graduate School announces Image of Research Competition winners
on April 16, 2021 at 12:59 pm
Two master’s students and one doctoral student are winners of the Mississippi State University Graduate School’s Image of Research Competition.

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Union College Discovery

Dusting off headstones, uncovering ancestry sitting below one Lowcountry cemetery’s surface
on April 17, 2021 at 9:56 pm
The restoration of one cemetery led to the discovery of the graves of at least 2 runaway slaves. Experts say the clean-up is helping people trace their genealogy ...
Benedict College Marching Band to perform in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
on April 15, 2021 at 7:35 pm
Benedict College of Columbia, SC on Thursday announced that the school’s Marching Tiger Band of Distinction will perform in the 2022 Macy’s Thanksgiving ...
How matter’s hidden complexity unleashed the power of nuclear physics
on April 8, 2021 at 12:58 pm
“Her peers in the physics community recognized that she was part of the discovery,” says chemist Ruth Lewin Sime of Sacramento City College in California ... In 1949, the Soviet Union set off its ...
At Clemson, unmarked slave graves highlight plantation past
on April 6, 2021 at 10:12 pm
On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson University, dozens of small white flags with pink ribbons have replaced the beer cans that once littered a hill ...
Volastra Therapeutics Extends Seed Financing to $44 Million to Advance Drug Discovery Programs to Prevent Cancer Metastasis
on April 6, 2021 at 4:21 am
The company is developing proprietary computational and experimental approaches to understand CIN biology and drive drug discovery. Among Volastra's ... Weill Cornell Medical College. "In just over a ...