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- The Department of Political Science is renowned for the development of the field of formal political theory and the application of quantitative methods to the study of politics.
- The interdisciplinary graduate program in Visual and Cultural Studies was one of the first to take a socio-historic approach to the interpretation of artistic production, and has served as a model for similar programs worldwide.
- In the past five years, research from groups in the Department of Biology has been cited twice in Science magazine’s annual list of Top Ten Breakthroughs in all areas of science.
- The Hyam Plutzik Reading Series is one of the most prestigious and longest-running series in the country, featuring internationally renowned poets and fiction writers.
- The Center for Visual Science brings together one of the world’s largest and most distinguished groups of researchers who study how we see.
- Digital humanities at Rochester is both text- and image-based, and encompasses such diverse projects as the Blake Archive, the TEAMS Middle English Texts project, and the Camelot project.
- Faculty have developed innovative teaching approaches that have resulted in widely adopted methods for peer-led learning (Workshop Model) and for mathematics instruction (WebWork).
- The Frederick Douglass Institute and the Susan B. Anthony Institute honor the legacy of two of Rochester’s distinguished citizens through academic research and teaching on race and gender.