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New award sends humanities graduate students abroad
Tue, 13 Dec 2022
Four Rochester doctoral candidates will research in archives in a dozen countries as recipients of the Meliora Global Scholars grant.
Continue ReadingThree professors honored for undergraduate teaching innovations
Tue, 25 Oct 2022
The recipients of this years Goergen Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching all have reshaped departmental programs focused on experiential learning.
Continue ReadingPablo Sierra Silva: Using primary sources to immerse students in the past
Tue, 25 Oct 2022
The history professor leads his class back in time to analyze events that shaped today’s world.
Continue ReadingSeed funding reflects how data science, AR/VR transform research at Rochester
Mon, 17 Oct 2022
The University’s Goergen Institute for Data Science supports collaborative projects across all disciplines.
Continue ReadingFaculty in data science, mechanical engineering, and history to receive Goergen Awards
Wed, 14 Sep 2022
Established in 1997, the award recognizes distinction in undergraduate teaching among faculty in Arts, Sciences & Engineering.
Continue ReadingWormholes and stains add to backstory of medieval manuscript’s acquisition
Mon, 08 Aug 2022
The 700-year-old manuscript is the first in a new University of Rochester library collection that honors historian Richard Kaeuper.
Continue ReadingStudents build strong relationship working with nonprofit Teen Empowerment
Mon, 18 Jul 2022
Created with undergraduates playing major roles, a local exhibit shows how Clarissa Street—once the center of Rochester’s Black community—was destroyed by urban renewal and housing discrimination.
Continue ReadingAnti-trans laws use child protective services to harm transgender youth
Fri, 11 Mar 2022
Professor Mical Raz argues in the Washington Post that for trans children, their “very existence is at stake” when definitions of neglect and abuse become overly broad.
Continue ReadingFact-checking Putin’s claims that Ukraine and Russia are ‘one people’
Thu, 03 Mar 2022
Rochester historian Matthew Lenoe explains how Ukraine’s history is intertwined with Russia’s—but also with that of many other nations, empires, ethnicities, and religions.
Continue ReadingBrain-based arguments to reduce child poverty miss the point
Sat, 29 Jan 2022
In a Washington Post op-ed, Rochester professor Mical Raz outlines the pitfalls of using babies’ brain function and biology to inform anti-poverty family policies.
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