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About Students :: March 2006

PhysOrg.com (March 20)

Graduate Student Wins Top Award for Particle Physics Dissertation
Maria Florencia Canelli '03 (PhD), a recent doctoral student at the University of Rochester, won the American Physical Society's 2005 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics.

Corning Leader (New York; March 29)

Onyiriuka Earns Basketball Honors
University of Rochester sophomore Jon Onyiriuka added a trio of basketball postseason awards to his resume recently. Onyiriuka was named a first-teamer on the All-ECAC Upstate New York squad, as well as second team All-East Region by the NABC and by D3hoops.com.

WXXI Public Radio (Rochester; March 7)

A Spring Break Made for Caring
Forty University of Rochester students are on their way to neighborhoods in Biloxi, Mississippi, and in Baltimore, Maryland, this month for an "alternative" spring break trip. The university says so many students wanted to help with the recovery from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi that they had to run a lottery to decide who would go.

WROC-TV CBS (Rochester; March 1)

Students Spend Spring Break Helping Hurricane Victims
"For every student I was able to take, we had to turn two away. Which is really a testament to the giving nature of U of R students," says Joel Kleinberg, program director of Hillel of Rochester Area Colleges, who is helping organize an Alternative Spring Break trip to Biloxi, Miss., from March 11 to 19. Rochester students will assist in rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Democrat and Chronicle (March 26)

Classical Music's New Ambassadors
NASCAR is everywhere, and the barbarians are at the gates. It seems all is lost. Yet just when you think art is about to sink forever in a new cultural Dark Age, along come 170 bright-eyed and enthusiastic Eastman School of Music students to help turn the Philistine tide. This week and next, Eastman's young musicians, who are all in their late teens and early 20s, will be fanning out into the community, playing classical music in schools, colleges, libraries, bookstores, hospitals, churches and senior centers.

Democrat and Chronicle (March 10)

Graham Gives Rochester Impact From Long Range
The senior made nine 3-point shots in UR's victory over Medaille. Despite scoring 15 points in an 83–65 romp over Cortland in an NCAA Division III Tournament basketball game, the University of Rochester senior guard worried that Saturday might be her last hurrah.