Trish Williams, associate dean of students and director of residential life, received an award from the Hudson Mohawk Association of Colleges and Universities for her commitment to the Educational
Leadership Corps, a mentoring program for students of color who aspire to be college professors.
In Union's program-called “Future Professors” students focus on research, teaching, and college and community service. They meet four times a year to share their research, and they make presentations at the corps' annual banquet.
The program is supported financially by member institutions of the consortium and by the Ford Foundation, and it has been renewed for another two years.
Union's students, their projects, and their faculty mentors are:
Lisandra Ramos, “Theater as a process for social change in Kenya and Brazil,” A.T. Miller of the History Department;
Marguerite Stimphil, “Study of the influence of the visual and environment as it relates to the evolution of color in the visual displays of anoline lizards,” Leo Fleishman of the Biology Department.
Sandra Rojas, “Military uprising in Argentina and Chile during the 1970s,” Teresa Meade of the History Department;
Patricia Serpes, “A psychological and feminist study of women's and young people's identity in the short stories of Marita Lynch and Marta Traba,” Victoria Martinez of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures;
Vicky Lowery, “Fiber optics,” David Hayes of the Chemistry Department.