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Sam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights
Continue ReadingPaper wasp parasites turn hosts into long-lived ‘zombies’
Sat, 24 Sep 2022
University of Rochester undergraduate students and their biology professor study what paper wasps—and the parasites that manipulate them—can tell us about evolution, aging, and group living.
Continue ReadingAsteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously thought
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
Researchers have provided a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth’s largest crater two billion years ago.
Continue ReadingLaith Awad ’24 receives inaugural Obama-sponsored Voyager Scholarship for public service
Wed, 14 Sep 2022
A first-generation college student and accomplished leader and scholar, Awad aims to combat systemic racism and socioeconomic disparities within health care.
Continue ReadingBrain’s cognitive bias dominates in fantasy sports
Tue, 13 Sep 2022
In fantasy sports, “your brain can twist and interpret fantasy results in ways that are suboptimal, lazy, and illogical," explains brain and cognitive scientist Renee Miller.
Continue ReadingDisability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performs at the Sloan Performing Arts Center
Mon, 12 Sep 2022
The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.
Continue ReadingPlutzik Reading Series opens 60th anniversary season with Jericho Brown
Wed, 31 Aug 2022
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.
Continue ReadingCAREER awards recognize role models in research, education
Wed, 31 Aug 2022
Six Rochester researchers have received the National Science Foundation’s most esteemed recognition for early-career faculty members.
Continue ReadingA baseball call for the ages: Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run
Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith penned an essay for the Library of Congress about Milo Hamilton’s memorable home run call.
Continue ReadingMt. Hope Family Center expands evidence-based trauma services
Mon, 22 Aug 2022
New federal funding will support the center’s programs addressing child and family trauma at individual and systemic levels.
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