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About Students :: April 2006

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Democrat and Chronicle (April 22)

Big Kids Use Little Wheels in Fundraiser

The world generally is not made for short people. Friday, all 4 feet 11 inches of University of Rochester freshman Leah Dougherty got some payback. She wore a wide smile Friday as she straddled a 16-inch girl's bicycle on a patch of grass outside the River Campus' Wilson Commons. A couple of dozen University of Rochester bicyclers took part Friday in Bike Day 2006—a series of bicycling events to raise money for disaster relief for the 2004 tsunami.

Democrat and Chronicle (April 16)

UR Jumper Leaps to Prominence

University of Rochester graduate student Victoria Rybalko long jumped 22 feet at Roberts Wesleyan College on Saturday to record the third-best reported jump in the world this outdoor season. This was also a personal best for Rybalko, trumping her previous best of 21-5 1/2. "This is very special. It was actually unexpected," Rybalko said. "I knew I was gonna jump well, but not how well."

WROC-TV CBS (Rochester) (April 9)

Red Cross Prepares for the Next Hurricane Season

Some University of Rochester college students didn't go on the typical spring break. There wasn't any fun in the sun or trips to Cancun. Instead, they went to Mississippi, the nation's poorest state, to help the residents recover from Hurricane Katrina.

Democrat and Chronicle (April 5)

UR Med Students Learn to Observe at Art Gallery

A group of University of Rochester medical students stares at her with curiosity. She has no pulse and isn't breathing, but they aren't worried. This is a weepy image in a Memorial Art Gallery portrait that they're analyzing with a clinical eye. The eight students are participating in a little-known program designed to sharpen their powers of observation. Run by the museum and the UR School of Medicine, it teaches them to explore narrative paintings as a way to gain new insights into their patients.