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Campus Life
October 18, 2019 | 10:37 am

Meet the 2019 recipients of the Goergen Award for teaching excellence

Three University educators are being recognized as the recipients of the 2019 Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, and Katherine Schaefer.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Arts Sciences and Engineering, awards, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Eastman School of Music, featured-post-side, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Katherine Schaefer, Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, School of Arts and Sciences, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,
Campus Life
October 18, 2019 | 10:37 am

Ryan Prendergast: Teaching the principles of Don Quixote and beyond

“We should give students the input and tools to be able to produce knowledge on their own,” says Ryan Prendergast, an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.

topics: awards, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Ryan Prendergast, School of Arts and Sciences,
Campus Life
October 9, 2019 | 12:03 pm

Students thrive at the intersections of engineering, computer science, and humanities

Seniors Melissa Wen, Nathan Nickerson, and Jarrod Young are this year’s winners of the Wells Award, given each year to high-achieving students in the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who also excel in the humanities.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, humanities, interdisciplinary, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, School of Arts and Sciences, Wells Award,
University News
September 18, 2019 | 01:18 pm

Three professors to receive Goergen Awards for teaching excellence

Matthew BaileyShea, in the College’s Department of Music and the Eastman School of Music; Ryan Prendergast, in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures; and Katherine Schaefer, in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program are this year’s teaching honorees.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, awards, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Katherine Schaefer, Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, School of Arts and Sciences, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,
Society & Culture
December 5, 2018 | 03:33 pm

What is belief in a secular age?

New books from Rochester scholars John Givens and John Michael examine the lives of iconic writers to ask what religious belief might look like in an age of science and secularism.

topics: book authors, Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, John Givens, John Michael, religion, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
November 29, 2018 | 12:57 pm

Digital scholars rescue lost Japanese film

A 1929 Japanese silent film inspired by a classic O. Henry short story was long thought lost until Rochester researchers collaborated to bring it back to the big screen.

topics: Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Digital Scholarship Lab, Film and Media Studies Program, George Eastman Museum, Joanne Bernardi, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences,
Campus Life
November 9, 2018 | 01:08 pm

Wells Award winners excel in engineering and humanities

They major in optical engineering and minor in Italian. Or work toward dual degrees in music and computer science. Or pursue two minors while majoring in audio and music engineering. Meet the graduating seniors from the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences honored for pursuing dual degrees or minors in the humanities.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Audio and Music Engineering, awards, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Eastman School of Music, featured-post, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, humanities, Institute of Optics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics,
The Arts
September 18, 2018 | 10:06 am

‘Goethe was really an outlier in stressing that love was more important’

The first complete English translation of Goethe’s original 1776 text of “Stella: A Play for Lovers” reveals greater differences in gender relations.

topics: book authors, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, featured-post-side, Kristina Becker Malett, literary translation, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan Gustafson,
Campus Life
August 29, 2018 | 12:28 pm

From Rochester to the world: Local student shares international focus

Lucy Farnham ’22 took her first Spanish class in seventh grade, and it was love at first syllable. The Rochester native joins the Class of 2022 as a Spanish major, is thinking of adding Japanese, and is considering a career in the US Foreign Service.

topics: Class of 2022, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, School of Arts and Sciences,
Campus Life
May 11, 2018 | 01:13 pm

A local polyglot prepares to globe-trot

Rochester native Cherish Blackman has always had a knack for languages. “I wanted to study languages that weren’t very close to English,” she recalls. The double major in Russian and East Asian studies is heading to China next year, but is bringing her Spanish books with her.

topics: Class of 2018, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, East Asian Studies, Russian Studies, School of Arts and Sciences,