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Professors of religion, writing, and biomedical engineering recognized for teaching excellence
Wed, 25 Oct 2023
Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Jack Downey, and James McGrath approach undergraduate teaching at Rochester in distinctive ways that resonate with their students.
Continue ReadingJack Downey: Family tragedy channeled into a passion for social justice
Wed, 25 Oct 2023
The associate professor of religion helps shape the perspectives of his undergraduates not only at the University, but also at area prisons.
Continue ReadingThe ethics of dark tourism
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
Julia Granato crisscrossed Europe to study human bone collection and display sites. Now she’s pondering what it means to display and visit human remains.
Continue ReadingRochester’s college-in-prison program becomes western New York’s prison education hub
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
The Mellon Foundation has renewed its support for the Rochester Education Justice Initiative with an additional three-year, $1 million grant.
Continue ReadingEmil Homerin: An American religion scholar remembered
Mon, 11 Jan 2021
A leading scholar of Sufi poetry and mysticism, Emil Homerin is remembered by his students and colleagues for his enthusiasm and generosity
Continue ReadingUniversity prison education initiative awarded major grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Fri, 12 Jun 2020
The University's cornerstone prison education initiative receives a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand and further develop its programming.
Continue ReadingColleagues remember history professor emeritus Dean A. Miller
Wed, 03 Apr 2019
Friends and colleagues are remembering Dean A. Miller, a professor emeritus of history with a secondary appointment in religion and classics, for his 30-year career at Rochester, and for his scholarship, character, and generosity.
Continue ReadingSaving the lost text of a Torah scroll
Tue, 19 Mar 2019
Professor Gregory Heyworth and his digital media students are using different wavelengths of light to reveal illegible text that could create a sacred, tangible link with Jewish congregations lost to the Holocaust.
Continue ReadingAn academic understanding of hate
Thu, 29 Nov 2018
Listening to the news, it can feel as though acts of violence—particularly violence inspired by bigotry and hate—are on the rise, and unfortunately the numbers back that up. How are we to make sense of this rise? Three Rochester researchers sat down for an academic conversation about hate and intolerance, discussing reactions to recent incidents of hate, important lessons from history, and the psychology of stereotypes and intolerance.
Continue Reading‘High-risk’ research receives University seed funding
Wed, 23 May 2018
University Research Awards for 2018-19 have been awarded to 15 projects ranging from an analysis of the roles of prisons in the Rochester region, to a new approach to genome editing, to new initiatives for advanced materials for powerful lasers.
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