Concordiensis - May 12, 2022

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Thursday, May 12, 2022

Departments prepare for annual Prize Day Daniel Greenman News Editor

Saturday, May 14, Union will hold its yearly Prize Day ceremony in Memorial Chapel, in which Union College’s academic departments and faculty award a set list of prizes to students. The rendering of awards is set to begin at 1 p.m. Most prizes were “established by generous donors who wanted to memorialize an individual by creating a prize in their name”, according to Carol Weisse, Director of Health Professions and Ronald M. Obenzinger ProPrize Day was held on May 18, 1932, and honored 20 seniors. This year 107 awards will be presented to members of Union’s community from all years.

Types of prizes available range from those for a department’s top-performing or top-producing students, to those for students accepted to graduate school, to those who have met department-specific criteria. The Concordiensis reached out to departments to ask about each of their available prizes and selection processes. This year, the English department is awarding nine prizes, including for best selen Essay Prize), best poem Prize), and English major of Edwin L. Rich Prize). Works submitted toward English department prizes are turned in anonymously with pen names, and read blindly by a committee of two department mem-

Jing Chen | Concordiensis The Frank Bailey (1985) Prize is given to the senior who has rendered the greatest service to the

bers who are not involved with the students up for con-

sideration. If needed, a third judge is involved to ensure a

decision. The department’s See PRIZE on page 2

New York and colleges review Climate Action Plan Daniel Greenman News Editor

public hearings for its Climate ing Plan with an online event on Wednesday, May 11, and one the next day in Peekskill. The hearings are part of 11 such events around the state to source public comment on New York’s climate policy and the Climate Leadership and -

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cording to the Council’s Meetings and Events webpage. The plan includes a number of recommendations for expansion of fellowship funds for higher education to instruct on matters related to shifts in construction, agriculture, energy production, and other subjects, as well as expanding college access to proper recycling and composting. Written public statements, which began to be accepted

of the New York State Energy

World, page 4 Steinmetz Spotlights: Wood and Sommers

Research and Development plan on the policy’s scope is set to release at the year’s end. York’s

Climate

Leadership

became law. It “required New York to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 and no less 1990 levels,” according to climate.ny.gov. It also set a 2040 date for New York electricity to be 100% zero emissions.

Sci/Tech. page 5 Steinmetz Spotlight: Sonntag and Heiberger

It seeks to do this largely through distributed solar and offshore wind. The act also created a velop a “scoping plan of recommendations” toward New York’s goals. The plan’s draft,

overview of the plan is also available on the Draft Scoping Plan’s website. The plan’s main sections describe the “Pillars of New York’s Planned -

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ro emissions, how progress will be evaluated and meaindustrial sectors, and “Statewide and Cross-Sector Policies”. Major supporting goals in the plan towards emissions and energy targets include 2030,” and having 3 million dominantly battery-electric) See PLAN on page 2

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