Rochester Review

July–August 2014, Volume 76, No. 6

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A New Future for Eastman and Simon

By Joel Seligman

presidentNEW LEADERS: The University announced Jamal Rossi (left) as the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music, and UCLA business school administrator Andrew Ainslie as dean of the Simon Business School. (Photo: Adam Fenster)

I am delighted to welcome two extraordinarily talented leaders to the helms of the Simon and Eastman Schools.

On May 2, I was honored to introduce Andrew Ainslie as the new dean of the Simon Business School. Andrew has had an exemplary career at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where he has been senior associate dean for the full-time MBA program since 2010. He has been an associate professor of marketing since 2005, and was assistant professor of marketing from 2000 to 2005. Earlier Andrew was assistant professor of marketing at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. Andrew had a key role in re-engineering the MBA program at Anderson. During his tenure as senior associate dean, the school has increased its admissions more than 60 percent, increased placements more than 20 percent, and revised its curriculum. He galvanized the staff and faculty and developed a reputation for transparency and integrity.

Andrew joins us with a significant background in business. Before beginning his academic career, he had a 10-year career in business, working as an electrical engineer for AECI (South Africa), as well as in sales and marketing for Hewlett Packard (South Africa), corporate finance with Standard Merchant Bank, and marketing and development for Compustat.

In our discussions Andrew emphasized faculty quality, admissions, and career placement. He is data driven, with a passion to enhance the legacy of intellectual leadership for which Simon is known. He will build on the decade of Mark Zupan’s inspiring leadership, which has brought a new generation of outstanding teachers and scholars to the school.

Let me thank the Search Committee and the Trustees and Friends Advisory Committee for their thoughtful input and hard work in the process that brought Andrew to Simon.

On May 13, I had the pleasure of announcing the selection of Jamal Rossi as Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music.

Jamal, an Eastman graduate himself with an extraordinary record of accomplishment, was the most talented of a very rich candidate pool. He has served as executive associate dean from 2007 until September 2013 and has acted as dean on three separate occasions in the past eight years.

Jamal was the leader of the school’s award-winning $47 million Eastman Theatre renovation and expansion project. He oversaw a review of the undergraduate curriculum and led the school’s recent reaccreditation review by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Since September 2013, he has facilitated new partnerships with Chamber Music America and the New World Symphony, led national efforts to create a new leadership conference with the deans of several peer institutions, taken initial steps to create new degree programs in convergent artistry, composition for digital media, and music leadership, empowered a faculty committee to study online learning opportunities, established Eastman Immersion—a new program to be launched in fall 2014 to enable talented high school students to spend a gap year at Eastman—and on several earlier occasions facilitated opportunities for Eastman students and ensembles to perform at Carnegie Hall. He also founded RocMusic, a collaborative partnership of arts and education institutions in Rochester to provide a free after-school music program for Rochester inner-city students.

Before joining Eastman, where he is a saxophonist and professor of woodwinds, Jamal was the dean of the School of Music at the University of South Carolina in Columbia for five years. He served as assistant dean and then associate dean of the School of Music at Ithaca College between 1989 and 2000.

Jamal is well poised to lead Eastman to new pinnacles of excellence. He recognizes that the challenges in the years to come will involve balancing the utmost respect for the legacy of this extraordinary institution with changes necessary for continued success in Eastman’s second century.

Jamal’s appointment came at the conclusion of an international search led by a faculty committee chaired by Provost Peter Lennie. I want to thank the Search Committee and the Trustees and Friends Committee for their efforts and dedication.

Let me extend a warm welcome to Andrew and Jamal as they begin what I predict will be memorable and consequential deanships.

Letters

‘Freedom’ Rings True

I was fascinated and delighted with the article on Freedom Summer (“We Were Not Afraid,” May-June 2014).

I was not a college student at that time but was the pastor of a black storefront church in Hamtramck, the largest Polish city outside Warsaw, completely surrounded by inner-city Detroit.

I was with the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg, Miss., pinch-hitting for a seminary classmate, its director, for six weeks in Freedom Summer. My main function was to pick up volunteers at the Jackson Airport, settle them with housing volunteers, train, and support them during their stay.

My family was horrified so I simply stopped writing letters. I wish I had kept a journal!

It was a life-changing experience. Of course I did my share of scuffling down dusty, or muddy, back roads with those whose assignment was voter registration. I was somewhat shocked when one trip to the Jackson airport delivered an elegant looking older woman carrying two suitcases and two hatboxes. As we drove back to Hattiesburg she explained her very special “mission.” She was, indeed, elegant and refined. She said that as someone “plantation born and bred,” she could do something the rest of us could not—visit town and county leaders, and especially their wives at their homes at tea time. And visit she did, attempting to educate, “nudge their values,” and “remind them of God’s love for all people.” I have no idea whether she made any “converts” but as she said, “polite upbringing meant they had to hear her out, could not argue with or harm.” She is surely, in my book at least, one of the unsung heroes of the movement.

I returned to my church, preached on Aaron, Moses, and a new Exodus. I led my summer volunteers to teach black history and the Freedom Road. I also began work with the Michigan Civil Rights Commission.

Jean Dimond ’50

Rochester

I enjoyed the excellent article on Freedom Summer in your May-June issue.

Did you know that U of R also had an NAACP support group on campus that organized Woolworth’s sit-ins in 1960? I went to the first one with my roommate Caroline Farbman Norman ’62. We took the bus downtown and spent a morning marching and chanting with signs in a big circle with about 20 other people outside the downtown Rochester Woolworth’s.

I was profoundly shocked when we were surrounded by police with several growling dogs and the demonstration was broken up. The whole experience was something of a political awakening for me that changed my outlook, and perhaps ended a certain innocence. After I graduated in 1962, I went south and participated in the civil rights movement and Freedom Schools for the next six years while getting a graduate degree in philosophy from Tulane.

As a result, during most of my life I was involved in community activism. I am retired now, but my last position was teaching a course on liberation arts and community engagement in a graduate program at USC in Los Angeles, where I live now. In 2008 I published a book at Palgrave MacMillan with a colleague, Mary Watkins, called Toward Psychologies of Liberation. It analyzes successful projects worldwide that have promoted social and economic transformation and contains a section on the civil rights movement which began for me in Rochester.

Helene Schell Lorenz ’62

Los Angeles

I have just finished reading Karen McCally’s excellent article on Matthew Zwerling ’64 and the Freedom Summer of 1964. I would like to commend the editors, Ms. McCally, and Mr. Zwerling for bringing this event back into focus for the U of R community. It was a story that has been told many times, and this is certainly one of the best that I have encountered. The immediacy of the relationships, both of Mr. Zwerling to the U of R, and of course, his relationship to Andrew Goodman, brings the story home to many who recall the era.

I went to Mississippi five years after this, as a young architect designing a community medical center for Fayette, Miss., where Charles Evers, Medgar’s brother, had become the first popularly elected African-American mayor in Mississippi in many years. Although tensions had somewhat eased by then—due to the publicity given Freedom Summer, the Schwerner-Goodman-Chaney killings and the other key activities of groups active in the area—it remained dangerous.

I recall sitting in a Natchez restaurant with Evers the evening of my arrival, to talk about the clinic. As we chatted over plates of catfish, Evers’s bodyguard, Al Deal, an ex-Philadelphia policeman, sat against the rear wall of the restaurant with his suit jacket open and a large pistol in a shoulder holster clearly visible for any passerby (or potential assassin of Evers) to see.

I agree with the editors, writer, and Mr. Zwerling that it remains important for younger U of R students and graduates to be reminded of what was occurring during those very critical years.

James Hadley ’62

Providence, R.I.

The account of Matthew Zwerling’s effort in the 1964 Freedom Summer brings to mind that courage such as his moved me, a timid guy, to show some support for the civil rights struggle. My cautious involvement, however, may have had far-reaching consequences.

In the fall of 1966 I took a job teaching science at Stillman, a small “historically Negro college” in my native Alabama. I was among about a dozen young white academics who were hired. I shared a rented house near the campus with Bruce, an energetic political activist from U. Cal. Berkeley.

Bruce began to use our house to encourage faculty-student contact and stimulate political consciousness. He was friendly with George, a black activist and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC sent George to do voter registration in nearby Greene County, Ala. We occasionally extended hospitality to George and his two fellow organizers, Eric and Hubert, who were working under hostile and uncomfortable conditions.

George and Eric seemed to enjoy these racially mixed gatherings; however, Hubert, the leader, accepted the hospitality in coldly polite silence. He would tell us that he was against white involvement in SNCC, saying that whites should reform themselves and not “mess around in the black community.” Nonetheless, he told me that he welcomed monetary support of their work. Thus, I began writing to friends in the Northeast to raise modest amounts for the West Alabama Support Project (WASP).

One day Eric phoned to say that Hubert and George had been arrested on a fabricated charge of attempting to steal a gun from a hardware store. He asked whether WASP could raise their bail of $1,000 each. After several days of effort with all my contacts, I had raised only about half so decided to dig deep and furnish the rest myself. After release, the group came to our house one last time to say thanks.

Hubert later became infamous as H. Rap Brown. In 1967, as the leader of SNCC, he led it away from its nonviolent stance. In June 1967, in Cambridge, Md., he told a crowd, “If America don’t come around, then black people gonna burn it down.” A school was burned, and he was charged with incitement to riot and arson. In Detroit, where a riot commenced later in July, he was widely quoted in the media as saying, “Violence is as American as cherry pie!”

Another Hubert, the 1968 Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey, had defended rioting as an understandable response to ghetto miseries. “With rats nibblin’ on my children’s toes, I might lead a pretty good revolt myself,” he had said. The Republican nominee, Richard Nixon, portrayed himself as the upholder of law and order. Nixon defeated Humphrey by a very narrow margin: 1 percent of the popular vote. Notably, he won the electoral votes of three major states scarred by riots—Ohio, Illinois, and New Jersey—by less than 3 percent of the popular vote.

I wonder what really happened in the hardware store. In his 1969 autobiography, Brown denied the theft, writing, “Hell, I had an arsenal already. What did I need to steal a gun for?” As the book and later reporting tells, his is a dramatic story. The guy who, in my living room, seemed brave, sober, and committed to justice became a violent revolutionary, a robbery convict, and eventually a murder convict.

Of course, I wonder what would have happened had I left him in jail. Eventually, SNCC or his family would have bailed him out. But it may have taken a while, and delayed his “program.” The other Hubert in the White House? No Watergate? Do I give myself too much discredit, or was my idealistic fundraising just a puff in a whirlwind?

Porter Anderson

Key Largo, Fla.

Anderson is a professor emeritus of pediatrics and microbiology.

Better Baseball

As singular an accomplishment as two no-hitters on the same day may be in the annals of U of R baseball history (“Historic No-Hitters,” May-June), I believe an even more exceptional one occurred in 1973.

One fine spring day over 40 years ago, my former roommate, Howie Stein ’75, hurled back-to-back four-hit shutouts to win both ends of a doubleheader against Hobart College.

As I recall Howie telling it, the pitcher who was slated to start the second game came up lame during warm-ups, and the manager asked Howie to “go as long as he could.” He certainly did. I doubt that this achievement will ever be duplicated, given the current fixation on pitch counts and overprotectiveness toward fragile young arms. Fortunately, no such concerns kept Howie from his date with immortality. His extraordinary feat of skill and stamina landed him in the “Faces in the Crowd” section of Sports Illustrated in the June 1973 issue, which happened to feature a cover photo of another superb competitor: the immortal racehorse, Secretariat.

Robert Greshes ’75

Mamaroneck, N.Y.

Paying Tribute

The tributes to Walter Oi and David Kearns ’52 brought back a flood of 1960s memories.

“Uncle Sam” had been drafting 100,000 young men every month for years and sending home some 100 body bags a week. Chatting with classmates after our 1967 graduation ceremonies, those men who did poorly on the “War Boards” exam said they were already scheduled to report for induction physicals.

My chemistry education allowed me to get a “defense job” making munitions. I remember watching from my office window, incredulous as thousands of irate women marched, some carrying plastic representations of “male chauvinist pigs,” and chanting “Equality Now!” Equality?

I applaud David’s support of affirmative action, but struggle at thoughts of how one could “right past wrongs,” and “level the playing field” to compensate men for stolen years, to say nothing about lost limbs, bullet wounds, and insidious Agent Orange poisoning.

I guess you must stand in front of the stark black granite of the Vietnam memorial, searching for the names of your buddies, to comprehend such thoughts.

Darryl North ’67

Edison, N.J.

lettersSTORIED CIRCLE: Alumni readers identified former history faculty member Christopher Lindley with students. (Photo: Provided)

More Memories . . .

The “Photographic Memories” (Class Notes, March-April; Letters, May-June) made me nostalgic for two reasons—I went to the U of R primarily because my cousin, Susan Andrew Sweet ’63, went there, and this picture was from her era. Secondly, Christopher Lindley, the assistant professor in the photo, taught one of the best courses that I took, in fall 1965, Recent American History.

His lectures were stimulating, his reading list was excellent, and my seminar TA in the course, Kenneth Yellis ’76 (MA), was the best TA I encountered in my four years at the school. The time period of the course, 1920s to WWII, remains my favorite class in my own 40-plus-year career of teaching American history at a community college.

Richard Sorrell ’66

Lincroft, N.J.

The writer is a professor at Brookdale Community College.

As it relates to the “well-dressed” students overlooking Fauver Stadium, the gentlemen at the top left of the circle are two of my Kappa Nu, later Phi Ep fraternity brothers—first Len Strickman ’63 and the next is Bernie Cantor ’63, ’68M (MD), ’73M (Res).

Don Warner ’64

Brookfield, Conn.

lettersMORE PEP: Susan Schroeder ’95, ’02 (PhD) added to the collection of pep band photos. (Photo: Provided)

. . . and More Pep

I’m glad to see the pep band active and successful (“Pep in their Step,” March-April; Letters, May-June). I also have many fond memories of pep band fun at UR. I’m sending more photos from spring 1994 and 1993 to add to the pep band archives and alumni records. Go, UR!

Susan Schroeder ’95, ’02 (PhD)

Norman, Okla.

Department of Corrections

Several readers gave us a failing grade for our translation of a headline in the May-June issue. The title of the Master Class story about John DiBartolomeo ’13 and his new career as a professional basketball player in Spain should have read “Jugando al Baloncesto Profesional.”

—Scott Hauser, Editor

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COMMENCEMENT 2014

Class Cheer

commencement (Photo: Keith Walters for Rochester Review)

CELEBRATION SCENE: Members of the Class of 2014 celebrate on the Eastman Quadrangle after receiving their degrees during this spring’s ceremony for Arts, Sciences & Engineering. Reminding students that life is not always a straight path, MSNBC political analyst Chris Matthews told graduates, “If you don’t have a clear hunch about what you want and how to match it with reality, it may come to you later if you find a way to give it a chance.” More than 3,000 degrees were conferred during three days of ceremonies this spring.

PERFORMING ARTS

Room to Move

sloan (Photo: Adam Fenster)

INTRODUCING SLOAN STUDIO: Rainya Heath ’14 (left) and Kasandra Reyes ’17 take part in movement exercises as instructor Darren Stevenson leads a class in the new Linda E. Sloan Studio in Todd Union. Formally dedicated this spring, the renovated rehearsal space is named in recognition of support from Linda Fisher Sloan ’67 and her husband, University Trustee Tom Sloan ’65, ’67 (MS). The studio provides needed space for the International Theatre Program, the Program of Dance and Movement, and other performing arts initiatives, as well as serving as a space where students can study and work on projects.

LASER LAB

Diagnostic Operations

laser (Photo: Adam Fenster)

HOME TO OMEGA EP: Mason Schleigh, an experimental systems technician at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, maneuvers a piece of equipment known as a “parabola alignment diagnostic” around the target chamber of the lab’s four-beam laser. Part of a suite of technology used to set up experiments, the diagnostic helps optimize the focus of high-powered, short-pulse laser beams, enabling researchers to study matter at extreme temperatures and pressures.

ADMINISTRATION

Eastman and Simon Introduce New Deans

Highly regarded academic leaders in business and music move into new roles.

deansNEW DEANS: Jamal Rossi (left) will lead the Eastman School, and Andrew Ainslie will lead the Simon School. (Photo: Adam Fenster)

Two of Rochester’s major academic units have new leaders going into the 2014–15 school year.

Eastman School of Music

Jamal Rossi, a member of the Eastman faculty and administration who has served in leadership roles in music for more than two decades, was named the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music.

A saxophonist and professor of woodwinds, Rossi joined Eastman in 2005 as senior associate dean. In 2007, he was named executive associate dean, supervising the award-winning $47 million project to renovate Eastman Theatre and construct the Eastman East Wing. Rossi was dean of the music school at the University of South Carolina before joining Eastman.

Rossi was formally named Messinger Dean in May, presiding over the school’s commencement ceremony this spring. Last fall he was appointed dean when the late Douglas Lowry, who had served as dean from 2007 to 2013, resigned because of illness.

As executive associate dean, Rossi was responsible for Eastman’s academic programs and personnel, including faculty hiring and promotions, and for academic and student affairs and enrollment management, among other duties. He oversaw a review of the undergraduate curriculum and led the school’s reaccreditation review by the National Association of Schools of Music. He also founded RocMusic, a collaborative partnership of arts and education institutions in Rochester to establish a free after-school music program for Rochester inner-city students.

Simon Business School

Andrew Ainslie, an administrator at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, was named dean of the Simon Business School. He succeeds Mark Zupan, who finished a 10-year tenure as dean on June 30.

An associate professor of marketing at Anderson, Ainslie joined the faculty there in 2000. From 1997 through 2000 he was an assistant professor of marketing at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. As senior associate dean for Anderson’s full-time MBA program, he had responsibility for admissions, student services, and career placement. During his tenure, the school increased its admissions more than 60 percent, increased placements more than 20 percent, and revised its curriculum.

Before beginning his academic career, Ainslie had a 10-year career in business, including as an electrical engineer, in sales and marketing, and in corporate finance.

GLOBAL ROCHESTER: SOUTH AFRICA

Helping Build Community

globalEGOLI: Katherine Wegman ’15 first visited South Africa while studying abroad. (Photo: Courtesy of Katherine Wegman ’15)

Rochester & South Africa

People

18: Alumni living in South Africa

4: Undergraduates from South Africa

1: Graduate student from South Africa

86: Students who have studied abroad in South Africa since 1996

Connections

The College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid has partnered with the African Leadership Academy, a private, selective secondary school outside Johannesburg, since its founding in 2008. More graduates of the academy have enrolled at Rochester than at any other university in the United States. Rochester is host to the academy’s fourth annual reunion this year.

Rochester and the University of Cape Town are two of 17 members of the Worldwide Universities Network, a consortium of research universities designed to foster research collaboration among international institutions.

Faculty members representing departments such as psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics, history, earth and environmental sciences, political science, and others have research and scholarly exchanges with colleagues at academic and medical institutions in South Africa.

Two Rochester undergraduates are building connections with the people of Egoli, a squatter community on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa.

During study abroad programs earlier in their Rochester programs, John Dawson ’13, ’14 (T5) and Katherine Wegman ’15, both of Pittsford, N.Y., first visited the settlement, one of several largely unrecognized communities that trace their origins to the country’s apartheid era.

Working with the settlement’s 2,000 residents and the Cape Town nonprofit Ikhayalami, the two returned this summer, with plans to help build a new community center. The students’ work is funded with a $10,000 grant from Davis Projects for Peace, an initiative that encourages students to design grassroots projects that promote peace and address the root causes of conflict.

Serving as a library, church, childcare center, and meeting place, Egoli’s current community center is an important resource, but its poor condition and small size limit gatherings and make adding programs, like health clinics, difficult.

Wegman says that Ikhayalami brings to the project a network of resources to support Egoli community leaders as they create a strategic plan.

Together, they plan to hold focus groups and community development workshops to help ensure that Egoli residents have a voice in charting their own course for development, she says.

Dawson, who studied molecular genetics at Rochester and plans to attend the School of Medicine and Dentistry this fall, and Wegman, an anthropology major who studied public health during a semester abroad in Jamaica and England, worked with Jennifer Kyker, an ethnomusicology professor at the Eastman School of Music, who helped them with the project’s design and with writing grant proposals.

Ikhayalami founder Andrea Bolnick says that Egoli will benefit tremendously from the new center.

“A common space everyone has a vested interest in can become a powerful asset in a community,” she says. “It can build trust, unity, pride, and a sense of dignity.”

—Melissa Greco Lopes

Andes Mountains Formed by ‘Growth Spurts’

discoverRANGE FINDERS: Rochester researchers are exploring the mechanisms behind the rapid rise—in geological terms—of the Andes Mountains. (Photo: iStockphoto)

The Atliplano plateau, a region of the Andes Mountains that sits about 12,000 feet above sea level, may have risen to its great height through a series of rapid growth spurts. That’s according to new research by Carmala Garzione, professor of earth and environmental sciences, and her colleagues at the University of South Carolina.

Scientists have long been working to understand how the Andes and other broad, high-elevation mountain ranges were formed—in particular, asking how quickly have the Andes risen, and what was the process that enabled their rise?

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Garzione reports that the Altiplano—and most likely the entire mountain range—was formed through periodic rapid pulses rather than through a continuous, gradual uplift of the surface.

Garzione and Andrew Leier, an assistant professor at South Carolina, used a relatively new temperature-recording technique in two separate studies in different regions of the Andes to determine whether pulses of rapid uplift were the norm, or the exception, for the formation of mountain ranges like the Andes.

Garzione found that the southern Altiplano region rose by about 2.5 kilometers between 16 million and 9 million years ago, which is considered a rapid rate in geologic terms.

—Peter Iglinski﻿

discoverVISUALIZE THIS: An interactive display wall will be the centerpiece of a new “data visualization lab” when the lab opens this fall in Carlson Library. Featuring a high-speed fiber-optic connection to the University Data Center, the facility is linked to an IBM Blue Gene/Q, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and a new IBM “BlueHive 2” supercomputer cluster. Designed to create immersive visual experiences, the lab allows researchers to understand and manipulate large and complex sets of scientific information. (Photo: Adam Fenster)

Awkward Moments: a Documentary Staple

Television shows like The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 30 Rock have built large followings around their use of awkward and cringe-worthy comedy.

But according to Jason Middleton, assistant professor of English and director of the film and media studies program, the use of staged “awkwardness” in documentaries, TV shows, and YouTube videos has a history that goes far beyond contemporary popular culture.

In his new book, Documen-tary’s Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship (Routledge, 2014), Middleton explores awkward moments in film to explore cultural irony and track how it arises in documentary films and reality-based media.

“When people think of comic elements in documentary film, they typically think of Michael Moore, but this approach was used in some of the earliest documentary films, like Nanook of the North,” says Middleton, who points to staged scenes and comic interactions between the actor and the filmmaker in the 1922 silent documentary. “The things for which Moore was faulted—from his use of comedy to his failure to uphold objectivity—are consistent with the history of documentary films.”

—Valerie Alhart﻿

Do Hispanic Seniors Face Medicare Barriers?

Hispanic seniors are 35 percent less likely to have prescription drug coverage despite the existence of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan—also known as Part D—and the availability of assistance to help pay insurance premiums.

The findings are part of a study published in the journal Health Affairs and coauthored by Robert Strawderman, chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Yue Li, associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, and Brian McGarry, a graduate student in the same department.

Medicare Part D was implemented in 2006 to help make prescription drugs, and premiums for prescription drug insurance plans, more affordable to seniors.

Using 2011 data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, researchers found lower enrollment numbers for Hispanics despite the fact that an estimated 65 percent of Hispanics without coverage were eligible to receive premium support. The authors argue that addressing such disparities should be a public health priority.

—Mark Michaud﻿

Study Finds Connection between Pollution and Autism

Medical Center research is providing new evidence that exposure to air pollution early in life may be harmful to brain development.

In a paper published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, Deborah Cory-Slechta, professor of environmental medicine, reported the results of three sets of experiments, in which her team exposed mice to levels of air pollution typically found in mid-sized U.S. cities during rush hour. The exposure was conducted during the first two weeks after birth, a critical time in the brain’s development.

The researchers found rampant inflammation throughout the brain, and the lateral ventricles—chambers on each side of the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid—were enlarged two to three times their normal size.

Inflammation to that part of the brain is seen in humans who have autism and schizophrenia. The mice also performed poorly in tests of short-term memory, learning ability, and impulsivity.

The findings are consistent with several recent studies that have shown a link between air pollution and autism in children. Most notably, a 2013 study in JAMA Psychiatry reported that children who lived in areas with high levels of traffic-related air pollution during their first year of life were three times as likely to develop autism.

—Christopher DiFrancesco﻿

SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Biologist Gloria Culver Named Interim Dean

Longtime dean Joanna Olmsted steps down from administration; humanities leader Thomas DiPiero named dean at SMU.

deans_sideINTERIM: Gloria Culver, chair and professor of biology, will be interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. (Photo: Brandon Vick)

The chair of the Department of Biology will oversee the School of Arts & Sciences during the 2014–15 academic year as a national search gets under way to succeed the school’s longtime dean, Joanna Olmsted.

Gloria Culver ’94 (PhD), professor of biology who has chaired the department since 2010, will serve as interim dean through June 30, 2015. She will oversee one of the largest portfolios among the University’s deans, working closely with chairs and faculty from 18 departments and 12 programs in the humanities and the arts, social sciences, and natural and physical sciences.

Olmsted, who stepped down after seven years as dean of the school, earned wide admiration from faculty and colleagues for her broad interest in and respect for research across all disciplines.

“In every dimension of our activities, Joanna’s distinctive attributes—incisive thinking, unflinching integrity, great personal humility, and unfailing generosity—have moved us powerfully forward, and have earned the respect and affection of all those who have worked with her,” says Peter Lennie, provost and the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences & Engineering.

Olmsted joined the biology department in 1975 after completing a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and her doctorate at Yale. Supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, she explored the function and regulation of cellular organelles. In 1995, she was appointed as the inaugural associate dean of faculty, later serving as dean of faculty development and interim vice provost and dean of faculty, before becoming dean of Arts & Sciences in 2007.

Also late this spring, Thomas DiPiero, dean for humanities and interdisciplinary studies in Arts, Sciences & Engineering, was named dean of the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

As Rochester’s first dean for humanities, DiPiero helped develop initiatives in digital media studies and curricular activities for Rettner Hall, the University’s new digital media arts and innovation center. In 2013, he helped the University secure a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a training program for graduate students in the digital humanities.

A scholar of French literature and French cultural studies, he has been a member of the faculty since 1987.

Celebrating John Gower

Long overshadowed by Chaucer, Gower’s star is rising.

gower (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)

John Gower was a medieval English poet and a contemporary and friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. Both were equally well known, cited, and admired in their own times until about 1700. After that, Chaucer’s star began to eclipse Gower’s.

Yet ask a young medievalist whose work is capturing the notice of up-and-coming scholars, and the answer is once again as likely to be Gower as it is Chaucer.

Early this month, nearly 150 scholars and students from as many as 20 nations convened at the University to share their research on Gower at the conference “John Gower: Language, Cognition, and Performance,” the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society and the first to be held in the United States.

Why is Gower so hot? According to Russell Peck, the John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Literature at Rochester, and a leading Gower scholar, one reason is that Gower’s work relates to many modern disciplines, from literary craftsmanship and gender studies, to cognitive science and medical humanities.

Another reason is the wide accessibility of Gower’s work online, including a digital project of the Robbins Library called the Middle English Text Series, which has been embraced by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a model of what the field of digital humanities can offer.

John Gower |  | Geoffrey Chaucer
c. 1330 to 1408 | Lived from | c. 1340 to 1400
Latin, Old French, Middle English | Wrote in | Middle English
Related to land holders in northern England and Kent. | Family origins | Born to London wine merchant. Not of the nobility, but close to the household of John of Gaunt.
Strong links to law and the Inns of Court. Chaucer’s legal executor in the 1370s. | Profession | Courtier, diplomat, MP, civil servant, chaperone to the Queen’s court.
Confessio Amantis (Confession of the Lover) | Best known for | The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde
Politics, laws, institutions, and ethics. | Common themes | Ordinary people, human nature, and social satire.
“A great storyteller, classicist, and lover of books.” | It’s often been said that he’s . . . | The “father of English literature.”
Gower was the only English poet to provide a detailed personal account of the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 as well as an allegory on the overthrow of Richard II. His works are a window into the trilingual culture of 14th-century England. | John Gower scholars wish it were more often said that . . . | Chaucer as well as Shakespeare and Ben Jonson admired and drew on Gower’s work.

Report Details University’s Economic Reach

The University is directly and indirectly responsible for supporting an estimated 50,300 jobs in the region, according to a new report by the Center for Governmental Research.

With 22,451 full-time-equivalent employees, the University is the eighth-largest private sector employer in New York, the report notes.

The report also finds that the new Institute for Data Science is expected to create 460 construction and permanent jobs and an estimated $530 million in research funding over a 10-year period.﻿

Sculpture Supports Psychiatry Patients and Families

The Department of Psychiatry and renowned Rochester metal sculptor Albert Paley are joining forces to support patients with mental health disorders and their families.

A new sculpture by Paley was installed this spring in the atrium garden at the department’s clinical service, Strong Behavioral Health. Titled Portal, the eight-foot-tall sculpture of weathered steel is surrounded by greenery and natural light and is intended to inspire contemplation and enhance the dignity and warmth of the entranceway.

Part of a nine-piece series of sculptures, Portal was exhibited throughout Europe and the United States before being placed on long-term loan to the University.﻿

Headliners Set for Meliora Weekend 2014

inbriefHEADLINERS: Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (clockwise from top), actor and singer Jason Alexander, and actress Laverne Cox are the special guests for this fall’s Meliora Weekend in October. (Photo: Provided)

Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, actress Laverne Cox, and comedian Jason Alexander will headline this year’s Meliora Weekend, Oct. 16–19.

Friday evening will feature entertainment, including a performance by Alexander, best known for playing the role of George Costanza on the NBC series Seinfeld, at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. A limited number of tickets will be available for the event.

On Saturday, Goodwin will deliver the keynote address. Goodwin, a regular commentator on the presidency, was an assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. She’s the author of six critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling books and winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for History for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. There will be no lottery for tickets to the event; it will, however, be simulcast.

At the Palestra, Cox, who plays an African-American transgender woman on the popular Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, will speak about her role as the first transgender woman of color to play a leading part on a mainstream television show.

For the second year, the weekend will also feature a series of MEL Talks by faculty, students, and alumni on topics related to research, innovation, and artistry. The inaugural series of MEL Talks, held on stage at the Palestra, are available for viewing online on the University’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/UniversityRochester.﻿

Robert McCrory Named University Professor

Robert McCrory, the longtime director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, has been named a University Professor in recognition of his contributions to the physics and engineering community and to the University.

McCrory becomes one of only eight current or retired faculty members to hold the honor, one of the highest recognitions awarded by the University.

Under McCrory’s leadership the laser lab has established itself as a world-leading laboratory for the investigation of inertial confinement fusion. Since becoming director, McCrory has been responsible for securing $1.6 billion in funding for the lab, which has consistently received outstanding reviews from the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Scientists from around the world use the lab’s facilities for several research projects, most notably to develop nuclear fusion as a reliable energy source.﻿

inbriefCLASS PORTRAIT: Singer Family Award winners (sitting) were invited to graduation by their Class of 2014 nominators (standing), including Doreen Arney and Daniel Gorman Jr.; John Hathaway and Chelsea Hans; Theresa Sarkis Kruse and Shamen Radcliff; and Robert Collard and Jonathan LoTempio Jr. (Photo: Adam Fenster)

Graduating Students Honor Their High School Teachers

Four graduating seniors honored a special group of people during commencement ceremonies this spring.

High school teachers Doreen Arney, Robert Collard, John Hathaway, and Theresa Sarkis Kruse were recognized with the 2014 Singer Family Prize for Excellence in Secondary Teaching. The annual award honors teachers for their significant influence on Rochester’s newest alumni.

Seniors in the College are invited to nominate a high school teacher for consideration for the prize. The four award winners were invited to the May ceremony to watch their former students graduate.

This year’s honorees were:

Doreen Arney, an English teacher at Pearl River (N.Y.) High School, who was nominated by Daniel Gorman Jr. ’14; Robert Collard, a chemistry teacher at Grand Island (N.Y.) Senior High School, who was nominated by Jonathan LoTempio Jr. ’14; John Hathaway, the director of instrumental music at Mount St. Mary Academy in Kenmore, N.Y., who was nominated by Chelsea Hans ’14; and Theresa Sarkis Kruse, an English teacher at Rochester’s Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School, who was nominated by Shamen Radcliffe ’14.

Paul Singer ’66 established the awards through the Paul Singer Family Foundation.﻿

UR Medicine Launches Wilmot Cancer Institute

The University’s clinical and research programs in cancer, along with a growing network of satellite locations, have been reorganized under the newly launched Wilmot Cancer Institute.

As part of an effort to expand and deepen the institute’s mission, UR Medicine also launched a $30 million comprehensive campaign with a focus on cancer research. The spring announcement included $4 million in support from the Wilmot family and the James P. Wilmot Foundation.

With the Wilmot Cancer Center at the Medical Center as its hub, the new institute encompasses seven satellite treatment facilities and all cancer research activities at the University.

The institute is designed to provide the highest level of care by making the expertise and capabilities of clinicians, faculty, and health care professionals available to patients.

HIGHLIGHTS

Spring Sports Celebrate with Super Softball Season

The Yellowjackets make their first appearance in the NCAA national softball championships.

By Dennis O’Donnell

sportsOUTTAHERE! Nina Korn ’14 is mobbed after her extra-inning home run secured soft-ball’s first trip to the national tournament. (Photo: Athletics and Recreation)

The Yellowjacket softball team finished the season ranked No. 13 in the country after making the program’s first trip to the NCAA Division III national championship this spring.

The trip to the title rounds in Tyler, Texas, and the ranking by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association capped a remarkable season in the sport’s 17-year history at Rochester.

During the season, the Yellowjackets hosted their first super regional, as well as an earlier regional competition. The team won the Liberty League championship, and just missed tying the program’s record for most wins in a season, finishing at 32–14.

To advance to the national tournament, Rochester defeated 15th-ranked Rowan University in the super regionals, a best-of-three stand that included a dramatic game-winning home run from Nina Korn ’14 in the second game—played on the day before commencement. At the national tourney, the Yellowjackets lost both games: 8–7 to then 20th-ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater; and 9–1 to 13th-ranked St. Thomas.

Korn, who finished her tenure as a Yellowjacket with eight career records, was named a first team All-American by the coaches association, and Tayler Fravel ’14 was named to the third team.

Brittany Grage ’15, who was the Liberty League Pitcher of the Year, finished 17–7 with a 1.53 ERA. And Eleni Wechsler ’17 was the Liberty League Rookie of the Year. She was 15–5 on the mound with a 1.76 ERA.

sportsTRIPLE THREAT: Ethan Sander ’14 was one of three Yellowjackets to each earn regional, conference, and league honors. (Photo: Athletics and Recreation)

Golf: The Yellowjackets won the Liberty League championship over Skidmore in match play and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA championships. Dominic Schumacher ’16 sank a birdie putt on his first extra hole to defeat his Skidmore opponent and clinch the team win. At nationals, Nick Palladino ’14 finished sixth out of 210 golfers and earned first team All-America honors. He fired a four-over 292. As a team, the Yellowjackets finished with 1,213 strokes, the best team score in school history. Matt vanNiekerk ’17 was named to the all-freshman team by the Golf Coaches Association of America.

Rowing:﻿ Emily Widra ’15 earned second team All-America honors from the College Rowing Coaches Association. Rochester’s first varsity eight squad earned a silver medal at the Dad Vail national championships. The Yellowjackets finished 14th in the final poll.

Baseball:﻿ Rochester went on a 21–4 tear to secure second place in the Liberty League at 25–16 overall. The Yellowjackets reached the championship round of the league playoffs before falling to Union. Five players earned postseason honors. Three of those were named to three postseason all-star teams: Ethan Sander ’14 (all-region honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association, all-UAA, and all–Liberty League), Evan Janifer ’16 (Coaches Association, D3Baseball.com, all–Liberty League), Lance Hamilton ’16 (ABCA, all-UAA, All–Liberty League).

Three Named Academic All-Americans

Yellowjackets Adam Pacheck ’14, Alex Swanger ’15, and Lauren Bailey ’16 were named Division III Academic All-Americans, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America and sponsored by Capital One.

Pachek, a biomedical engineering and physics double major from Baldwinsville, N.Y., was named to the second team for men’s cross country and track and field.

Swanger, an economics major from Penfield, N.Y., was named to the second team for men’s soccer.

Bailey, a chemical engineering major from Ossining, N.Y., was named to the at-large second team for her performance as a swimmer.

—Dennis O’Donnell﻿

Women’s track and field:﻿ Cameron Edwards ’16 and Emily VanDenburgh ’16 competed at the NCAA Division III championships. VanDenburgh finished 18th in the long jump, clearing 5.28 meters. Edwards ran a 1:02.44, the second best time of her career, in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles, finishing 16th. At the ECAC championships, Rochester finished 22nd of 61 teams that scored at least one point.

Men’s track and field:﻿ Rochester was 19th of 57 at the ECAC championships. Patrick Rice ’16 finished fourth in the decathlon. Adam Pacheck ’14 was seventh in the 10,000 at ECACs and he won the New York state title in the event. Justin Roncaioli ’14 (3,000-meter steeplechase) and Yuji Wakimoto ’14 (5,000 meters) each finished sixth in their events.

Men’s tennis:﻿ The Yellowjackets ran off seven straight wins and finished 15–7 overall. Julian Danko ’15 led the team in singles wins with 17. Boris Borovcanin ’14 won 15. Jonny Baker ’17 had 16. As a doubles team, Borovcanin and Danko were 8–2.

Women’s tennis:﻿ Rochester defeated NYU, 6–3, to secure seventh place in the UAA standings. The Yellowjackets were 6–11 overall. Six of Rochester’s losses came against nationally ranked foes. Molly Goodman ’16 and Christine Ho ’16 led the team in singles wins with 13.

Women’s lacrosse:﻿ The Yellowjackets finished ninth out of 250 teams in caused turnovers per game (12.5), and they were 22nd in scoring defense, allowing 7.86 goals a game. Jamie Wallisch ’17 and Kathryn Maisch ’17 earned honorable mention all–Liberty League honors in a 6–8 season.

EXCERPT

A Dynamic Attitude

Nine months into his first year as president, Cornelis de Kiewiet convinced the Board of Trustees to merge the colleges for men and women on the River Campus. And by the time he retired a decade later, he had helped change public thinking about supporting higher education: rather than charity, it was a social and economic necessity.

By Janice Bullard Pieterse

historyCHANGING PLACES: “A university is never fully mature. It must grow and change, else it languishes and loses its place,” de Kiewiet said when he was named University president. (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

In 1950, as trustees looked for a successor to Alan Valentine to lead Rochester into its second century, the University had weathered a series of enormous stresses. As a true university it was relatively young. In the three decades since the founding of the esteemed schools of music and medicine—as well as the stately River Campus—University finances, enrollment, and faculty had been buffeted by inflation, the Great Depression, and World War II.

In a sense, the University now faced its first opportunity to plan and define itself—in an era of significant American social change. And it would prepare for unprecedented growth in higher education nationally. College and university enrollments swelled more than 200 percent from 1949 to 1969, much of that growth coming with changing demographics and increased availability of financial aid. Meanwhile, state and federal investment in academic research swelled, particularly when the 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik heightened concerns about U.S. defense.

At Rochester, projects sponsored by outside agencies became a critical component of ever-growing operations, providing 23 percent of the University’s $26 million budget by 1959. The presidential search committee collected reports from deans and officers as it assessed Rochester’s leadership needs. Among the more serious issues presented: succession plans—or lack of—at the Eastman School of Music and the Medical Center. Both had risen meteorically to premier world ranks, the Eastman School under the groundbreaking guidance of director Howard Hanson, approaching his 30th anniversary; and the medical school under founding dean George Whipple, who, in his 70s, showed little obvious intent to retire. “It is an unsound condition when so much of a school’s success depends upon the presence of a single individual,” provost Donald Gilbert told the committee.

Also, the institution had an “uneven” character to it, treasurer Raymond Thompson observed. While Valentine had set out to place the College of Arts and Science on the same plane of quality as the schools of music and medicine, that had fallen short. Some programs, especially in scientific fields, were heavily funded, leaving little to invest in others. History professor Dexter Perkins “should not have to ‘pass the hat’ for his graduate history fellowship program,” Thompson said. Faculty salaries remained low—lower than prewar levels when adjusted for inflation, estimated at 70 percent from 1939 to 1949.

Both the River Campus and the Prince Street Campus needed significant capital investments, especially for the women’s library and gymnasium. In addition, the University would need to examine its expectations of a president. Provost Gilbert told the search committee: “In the modern university the functions of this office have become too manifold to be exercised effectively by a single individual.” The president was expected to be the institution’s academic leader, community leader, involved in national activities, and carry principal responsibility for the growth of University financial resources. An enlarged administrative structure was required, Gilbert said.

By August 1950, search committee members had discussed nearly 150 individuals, looked closely at 70, and interviewed a handful. Trustees Charles Wilcox and Raymond Ball drove to Ithaca to talk with Cornelis de Kiewiet, then acting president at Cornell University. Wilcox recalled immediate, strong enthusiasm: Ball wanted to extend an offer that day.

At Cornell, where he had stepped in as president after the sudden resignation of Ezra Day, de Kiewiet was credited with turning around serious budget problems. Accounts of him described uncommon gusto and a great scholarly and executive mind. If anything, de Kiewiet could run too hard and fast with an idea, a Cornell administrator cautioned the Rochester trustees. De Kiewiet was not always diplomatic, and he was not popular with the Cornell faculty. Wilcox remembered hearing, “He was a Dutchman and . . . the trustees would have to ride herd on him carefully.”

De Kiewiet, a native of the Netherlands, spent most of his early life in South Africa, where his father worked as a railroad construction supervisor. The continent held an important place in de Kiewiet’s intellectual passions throughout his life and factored into a notable push for international awareness during his administrative career. De Kiewiet earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a PhD in history from the University of London. He accepted an assistant professorship in history at the University of Iowa in 1929, the year he published his first of many eminent studies, British Colonial Policy and the South African Republics, 1848–1872.

historyCLASS OF 1958: Sally Ann Goddard (left to right), Cherry Thompson Socciarelli, June Fundin Hardt, Todne Lohndal Wellmann, Mary Lind Bryan, and Chrystal Murray were among the first women to study on the River Campus after the merger in 1955. (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

De Kiewiet joined the Cornell faculty as a professor of modern history in 1941 and promptly earned leadership roles. During the war years he oversaw language-training programs for the military. He became dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1945 and provost in 1948. He was in line for the presidency of Cornell when Wilcox and Ball visited.

De Kiewiet shared their eagerness. “The first time that I saw the U of R and its people, I liked the whole spirit and tempo so much that I knew that was the place that I wanted to be,” he recalled. When the Rochester search committee learned the Cornell board would convene October 20, 1950, to name a president, it took the unprecedented step of making an offer before Rochester’s full board could convene for final approval on November 4. “Your committee . . . trusts that the Board of Trustees will recognize the urgency of action that arose,” chair Albert Kaiser explained in a report.

Installed as president the following June, de Kiewiet spoke of the need for ongoing growth in a university. “A university is never fully mature,” he said. “It must grow and change, else it languishes and loses its place.” This conviction, he said, applied to the three main activities a university supports: to pursue knowledge wherever it may lead; to cooperate in the technological process that advances business and industry; and, most important, to relate both knowledge and technology “to man’s quest for dignity, peace, justice, the good of life—all the qualities and aspirations which make man a spiritual as well as a physical being.” As the 1951–52 academic year opened, de Kiewiet announced the creation of the University’s first office of development, headed by former provost Gilbert. It was the first in roughly a dozen major new administrative posts, and it would support efforts on many fronts.

De Kiewiet shared candid thoughts in retirement that shed light on his decisions through the transformative period. He participated in an oral-history interview with a University public relations officer in 1971. In the early 1980s, he submitted a poignant draft of an essay for a planned, but never published, University of Rochester Library Bulletin on presidential recollections.

Reflecting on his early impressions of the University, de Kiewiet described an “absence of any sense of wholeness, from which the University suffered grievously.” The women’s Prince Street Campus was five miles away from the men’s campus. The administration operated from a residential block there. The Eastman School was downtown in a neighborhood suffering some decay. The medical school, though near the River Campus, also seemed disconnected. “The closest that I feel entitled to come was that each constitution was conceived and considered in its own right,” de Kiewiet remembered. He worked throughout his 10-year term to form a cohesive University “silhouette.” De Kiewiet immediately questioned the logic of a separate women’s campus, which, with some buildings nearing 100 years old, would need $4 million in updates. Faculty and students wasted time, the president believed, traveling between the campuses for various courses or facility use. Further, the arrangement implied inequality for women. De Kiewiet sounded out his idea—transferring women to the River Campus—with board chair M. Herbert Eisenhart.

This notion, though sometimes raised in prior years, had never been considered seriously. There were strong traditions and attitudes. The venerated Rush Rhees, president when benefactor George Eastman led contributions toward development of the River Campus, believed in coordinate education for men and women. Rhees also had wanted to preserve the University’s first campus, opened in 1861. Alumni and alumnae held strong sentiments for their respective colleges, and there was considerable opposition to coeducation among River Campus men who believed the presence of women would cause a drop in academic quality.

De Kiewiet recalled, 30 years later, the powerful impact of his private talk with Eisenhart in the chair’s home. “Mr. Eisenhart was a man of great politeness and attention. He heard me patiently for two full hours. Then he arose to put a glass of whisky in my hand. Then he said with real kindness: ‘I am happy to have listened to you, and I would like to give you some advice. Outside this room, never mention again the idea of bringing the men’s and women’s college together.’ I finished my drink speechlessly, and felt like a marathon runner who falls over at the beginning of the race. On my way home, I remembered what I had said, and the enormity of what had been said. I recalled standing on the verandah of the administration building, and seeing nothing around me. My resolution was like a physical sensation. I would go on and talk, or would go away.”

That November, the president told the board’s executive committee he intended to study “the financial and academic justification” of maintaining separate colleges for men and women. The next month, he reported to the full board on the cost of improvements to the women’s campus—and the national trend toward coeducation. By January 30, 1952, de Kiewiet could report that after consultations with faculty, students, and Rochester graduates, he believed a college merger would have support.

Student opinions were mixed. “I feel it would lower our school’s standing,” Arthur Bernhang ’55 wrote to the Campus. “At present we do not lack social contacts with women, and if they were in our classes it would be distracting.” Bob Gordon ’52 raised a counterpoint: “[It is] necessary financially as the women’s campus is definitely falling behind and needs major improvements. Co- education would be nice and I don’t feel it would have any bad effect on marks. We’d also get rid of the inter-campus transportation problem.”

On April 26, 1952, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved that the two colleges “be consolidated at the earliest possible moment.” A cost comparison had been compelling: the women’s college would need $4 million in facility improvements and $10 million to endow program expansion; estimated merger costs were $8.6 million. Said board member James Gleason, a Rochester manufacturer, “Women are taking an increasingly important part in the industrial and professional life of the Nation. This move is in the spirit of the times.”

“Rochester Adopts One-College Plan,” the New York Times announced April 30. The news became bigger: That fall, the University kicked off a $10.7 million capital campaign, with $4 million planned for construction of women’s dorms; upgrades to the student union (Todd Union); and new buildings for the administration and University School, the community education division. The remaining $6.7 million would support faculty recruits and salary increases, scholarships, and student services. Donations ultimately lagged by at least $2 million—a symptom of Rochester’s ongoing struggle with perceptions of its wealth as the principal heir to industrialist Eastman. De Kiewiet preferred the term “integration” to “merger.” In his annual report for 1951–52, he explained, “Rochester is seeking an integration of many parts into a structure that will retain the elements of its present form but welded into a new shape that will be stronger, more active, more effective in the educational life of the community and nation.”

Rochester committees examined a range of matters in the years leading to the merger—admissions, accounting, curriculum, dining, student services, and preservation of meaningful artifacts from the historic Prince Street site. Most important, the merger would present an opportunity for the University to reexamine its role. “The merger gives us an opportunity to begin with a clean slate, to develop anything we desire and determine,” officials wrote in a grant application for self-study in October 1952.

De Kiewiet envisioned an entirely different kind of institution. He referred to a new “center of gravity” for the University. Higher education already was forever changed—in part due to sheer growth in the number of students after the war; in part due to changes in research influenced by the Manhattan Project and other wartime endeavors. Referring to a popular concept then of Rochester as being on par with prominent undergraduate colleges such as Amherst, the president recalled, “I came with a different point of view as to where the most effective center of gravity of the American university system might be or should be, and that clearly was upwards a distinct notch in the direction of more professional education, more graduate education, more research, more of a relationship to the whole phenomenon so much stressed by the Manhattan Project of scientific and intellectual investigation and research.” He also wanted the University to benefit from a close relationship with the prestigious—but decidedly independent—schools of medicine and music.

historyICONIC HOME: Construction on a residence hall for women began in the early 1950s (above) in preparation for the move of the women’s college to the River Campus. (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

Distinguished scholars were hired: Vera Micheles Dean in international studies; pioneering political scientist Richard Fenno, the Don Alonzo Watson Professor of History and Political Science; and economist Lionel McKenzie, the Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Economics. The University drew worldwide acclaim for physics professor Robert Marshak’s annual organization of the International Conference on High Energy Physics, commonly known as the “Rochester Conference.”

There would be difficulties. Some faculty complained of “second-class” treatment compared with research scholars. De Kiewiet’s efforts to exert stronger influence in music and medicine met resistance. Hanson, according to Eastman School historian Vincent Lenti, criticized: “The new president’s policy . . . called for a strong centralization of authority in the university administration, the final authority resting with the president and filtering down to the deans through a series of vice-presidents, provosts, and other university officers. Coupled with this was his insistence that the central core of the university should be the College of Arts and Sciences. Under this policy the College of Arts and Sciences became, itself, the university, the rest of us being adjuncts of the main body. Fortunately for us, the Eastman School was located in downtown Rochester, four miles from the River Campus, and our physical separation kept us from being entirely drowned in the Genesee.”

De Kiewiet’s style may have estranged some. Soon after arriving at Rochester, he sent letters to national medical educators requesting names of a potential dean to replace Whipple—before realizing Whipple had not yet decided to retire. On another occasion, de Kiewiet apologized to trustees for publicly announcing key administrative appointments before sharing the information with the board. In a letter to Whipple’s successor, Donald Anderson, de Kiewiet seemed to explain his sense of urgency: “A president has three years for innovation, three years for consolidation, and three years for loss of reputation.” At least two deans resigned over differences with the president, and a Middle States accrediting committee raised a concern about lack of communication between the University administration and Medical Center leadership. “President de Kiewiet soon became a controversial figure at the University of Rochester,” longtime chemistry chair W. Albert Noyes Jr., the Charles Frederick Houghton Professor of Chemistry, wrote in a memoir. Noyes served as graduate studies dean and, temporarily, dean of the College. “But, I can honestly say that I have never served under a university president with a better . . . understanding of the essentials of a good university.”

Noyes helped gain faculty support for de Kiewiet’s second organizational feat: to create the professional schools of education, business, and engineering in 1958. The president saw these disciplines as anomalies in the College of Arts and Science that probably were not adequately supported in that liberal arts context. Demand was high for professional courses; part-time enrollment for employed adults in the community education division—known as University School—increased from 2,800 in 1954–55 to 4,300 in 1957–58.

A faculty committee examined options for two years before recommending the plan to develop the new schools. Rochester’s industrial leaders had pressed for engineering expertise. More broadly, knowledge was expanding and subdividing in specialties, and the United States had become a world center for training, de Kiewiet told the board. “U. of R. Raises Its Sights,” an editorial headline in Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle declared after the University’s announcement of its new divisions. “The reorganization, in time, will change the profile of the university, physically, as higher enrollments, more facilities dictate expansion,” the article said. “The inner change will be felt even more because it is indicative of the U. of R.’s resolution to meet the new, titanic challenges of higher education.”

John Graham Jr., vice president of the Cooper Union, was recruited as dean of the College of Engineering. Previously he rose from instructor of civil engineering to dean of students at Carnegie Institute of Technology, later part of Carnegie Mellon University. By 1963, Rochester’s engineering school faculty doubled to more than 30, and sponsored research grew from $20,000 a year to $375,000. Doctoral programs were begun in mechanical and electrical engineering— chemical engineering already had offered a PhD. In 1960, the engineering college, working with the Medical Center, added one of the first biomedical engineering degrees in the country.

John Brophy, a professor specializing in organizational theory and administration at Cornell, was appointed dean of the School of Business Administration, later the Simon Business School. During Brophy’s five-year tenure, full- and part-time MBA programs were established. Charles Plosser, a former dean of the school and the Fred H. Gowen Professor of Business Administration and the John M. Olin Professor in Government, credited Brophy with setting the foundation for one of the country’s leading business schools.

William Fullagar, the Earl B. Taylor Professor of Education Emeritus, served as founding dean of what became the Warner School of Education. Under his leadership from its inception in 1958 until 1968, faculty increased more than fivefold, to 37. Enhanced graduate programs, including doctoral degrees, drew 141 full-time students and 482 part-time students in 1968. The president would report at the end of the 1958–59 year, the first of operations for the new schools: “It is not customary for an institution of higher education to create in one year three new, major educational units. Yet it seemed after mature and protracted reflection on the part of all concerned that the University in terms of the purposes it had set for itself in the anticipated dynamic period of the 1960s should complete the reorganization of its academic structure in one move and thus be as adequately prepared as possible for the demands which it was clear would be placed upon it.” Harper’s Magazine in 1959 identified the University among several whose distinction was greater than recognized, de Kiewiet told the board.

historyNATIONAL PICTURE: Taking a prominent national role, de Kiewiet was president of the Association of American Universities and the American Council of Learned Societies. (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

University historian Arthur May described the creation of the three professional schools as “the most significant development in the University complex since the opening of the Medical Center more than three decades before.” The separate units would enhance training for local industries and be in a better position to attract growth capital, May said. A Rochester Review report marking the schools’ 50th anniversary noted de Kiewiet wanted the units to have more autonomy to pursue their academic development and programs. Also, putting the divisions on a new professional and graduate level would better position them to attract faculty and students. “The moves also bolstered Rochester’s position as a research university made up of academic units devoted to particular fields,” the Review said.

A History But Begun ...

The history of the University is getting an update.

Our Work Is But Begun: A History of the University of Rochester, 1850–2005, by Janice Bullard Pieterse, a freelance writer in Rochester, is scheduled to be published this fall by the University of Rochester Press.

With a foreword by President Joel Seligman and an afterword by Paul Burgett ’68E, ’72E (PhD), University vice president and senior advisor to the president, the book takes the story of Rochester through the tenure of the University’s ninth president, Thomas Jackson.

The main narrative focuses on Rochester’s leadership, direction, and goals, but the book is filled with sidebars, profiles, and anecdotes of academic and student life at Rochester over the past 160 years.

The new book takes its place among other historical accounts of Rochester, including A History of the University of Rochester, 1850–1962, by the late Rochester professor Arthur May (Princeton University Press, 1977), Beside the Genesee: A Pictorial History of the University of Rochester, by Jan LaMartina Waxman ’81N and edited by Margaret Bond ’47 (Q Publishing, 2000), and Transforming Ideas, edited Robert Kraus ’71 and University Professor Charles Phelps (University of Rochester Press, 2000), both published to coincide with the University’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2000.

Our Work Is But Begun will be available to pre-order on the bookstore’s website (http://urochester.bncollege.com) beginning in August. Updates on ordering the book will be posted on the bookstore’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/URBookstore. Questions about orders can be directed to (585) 275-4012.﻿

A new sphere of demands began to surface. Students became more critical of University administration. Student newspapers of the 1950s show the beginning of familiar complaints about tuition, parking, and dining. Tuition more than doubled from 1951 to 1961, to $1,275. As automobile use increased—it doubled in the Rochester metropolitan area from 1946 to 1956, to 200,000—the University revised its parking policies and imposed fines of $40 or more for violations. When the University instituted a compulsory board plan in 1959, letters streamed to the Campus-Times, the newspaper formed after the merger of the men’s and women’s campuses. “Meals are obligatory now for the simple reason that if this were not the case, few would be foolish enough to pay for them,” wrote A. Lapidus ’60. “There are few people who, if faced with a choice between lime [Jell-O] and cottage cheese on lettuce with Russian dressing, and a good steak dinner for under a dollar in one of the restaurants which surround the campus, would not choose the latter. The fact is that the food bought by the University is bad and the preparation is worse.”

Students became more active around deep social concerns, most evident when racial tensions grew in the South. At least 50 students picketed the downtown Rochester Woolworth’s in March 1960 to protest the retail chain’s policy of lunch-counter segregation in the South. “The act signals a revival of consciousness in a generation,” stated a Campus-Times editorial. “Those students and few faculty members who silently and anonymously walked back and forth in front of Woolworth’s for two hours last night in freezing cold, those people generated their own warmth.” About the same time, student members of the NAACP demanded University pressure for removal of a clause in the charter of national fraternity Sigma Chi prohibiting membership of nonwhites.

By the end of the decade, it was time to look again at development. De Kiewiet drew up plans for the next phase of University growth—new dorms for men; a wing for physics, optics, and math; a science lecture hall and other academic buildings; and a chapel. The Medical Center, undergoing its own reorganization under the leadership of Anderson, was enhanced by an expanded library, new buildings for the Atomic Energy Project, animal studies, and hospital facilities. The College aimed for enrollment growth of 25 percent, to 2,500. With 4,100 employees—including nearly 500 full-time faculty members—the University ranked sixth largest among Rochester employers.

“The nation’s need for educated manpower is rising sharply and will continue to rise,” de Kiewiet said. “The explosion of new knowledge in our time is unparalleled in world history. International crises on every hand require creative solutions to new and age-old problems.” “A university must have and show a dynamic attitude to its own future,” de Kiewiet said.

But de Kiewiet was becoming restless. His correspondence with board members showed frustration, especially on financial issues and control of the music and medical schools. He saw an ally in the newly elected chair, Joseph Wilson ’31, founder of Xerox Corp. Wilson would be a significant figure through the 1960s. In the summer of 1959, de Kiewiet raised privately with Wilson the prospect of moving the Eastman School to the River Campus. “I am aware that this sort of thinking may light fires from horizon to horizon,” de Kiewiet said. “I am aware also that it may turn out to be completely unrealistic, but I am also aware, and this is important, that the total financial picture of the Eastman School of Music is going to call for some very radical handling.” Evidently stunned, Wilson replied, “The idea . . . was so new to me that I will refrain from doing more now than to say that I will think about it thoroughly.”

Within months, de Kiewiet would write of worsening malaise. “The combination of a tug of war between the executive and finance committees and of the lack of any clarity of responsibility in the Board of Managers of the Eastman School of Music have made me feel that my sense of unhappiness can only increase.” Six months later, on news that his daughter was terminally ill, de Kiewiet requested a leave of absence. He resigned in the summer of 1961.

Historian Richard Glotzer credited de Kiewiet with helping shape the research university as it is known today. “At Cornell and Rochester, de Kiewiet recognized the urgent need for change in post-war universities,” Glotzer wrote in an analysis published in American History Journal. “He understood that the jerry rigged arrangements hurriedly grafted onto pre-war university structures were ill-suited to sustain an ongoing explosion of knowledge and technology.”

De Kiewiet was a force on the state and national level. In New York, de Kiewiet led a council of private colleges and universities to consult with legislators forming the state university system. He served as president of the Association of American Universities and of the American Council of Learned Societies, where he defended universities under scrutiny during the McCarthy era and articulated the importance of funding higher education as its services grew. De Kiewiet also served a variety of national roles as the U.S. government and grant-making organizations looked for ways to understand developing nations and support their educational institutions, including South Africa. The president sent farewells to several trustees. He wrote to Eisenhart: “There is, of course, sadness in leaving an institution where we both worked with a sense of purpose that lay beyond ourselves even though perhaps sometimes my own hand reached too far. It always takes time for perspectives that have been rudely broken to re-establish themselves but I take comfort in the conviction that this decade has been useful.”

He closed a letter to trustee Sol Linowitz, Wilson’s business partner: “All men must be measured finally by the direction and the distance of their gaze. I am content to be measured by this test.”

This essay is adapted from Our Work Is But Begun: A History of the University of Rochester, 1850–2005 (University of Rochester Press, 2014). Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.﻿

Treasures from the Tower

The new director of special collections offers a tour of recent and notable highlights from the rare collections of the River Campus Libraries.

Descriptions by Jim Kuhn
Photographs by Adam Fenster
Introduction by Scott Hauser

When the doors of Rush Rhees Library opened in 1930, the building featured a space on the main floor known as the “Treasure Room.” Housed in that small sanctuary were some of the University’s historically important documents, original manuscripts, rare books, and other materials.

In the nearly 85 years since then, the collection has grown to more than 100,000 volumes—ranging from a recently acquired vellum roll that dates from 1374 to a nearly 7,000-work collection of first-edition modern poetry and fiction—and more than 600 manuscript collections. Cared for in secured stack spaces on the second floor of Rush Rhees, the “treasures” are now overseen by the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation.

And while scholars from around the world continue to visit the department for their primary-source research in history, biography, and other projects, the stewardship focus of the library’s staff has expanded from preserving the material to finding ways to share the one-of-a-kind collections with a wider world.

Several projects in recent years have digitized collections from the 19th and 20th centuries—particularly aspects of Rochester’s strong collection of abolition, suffrage, and Civil War materials—and several more projects are under way.

Students around the world can now see Frederick Douglass’s handwritten “passes” for the Underground Railroad and view original letters of Abraham Lincoln as he proposed ways to end slavery shortly after the Civil War began.

Making sure that historically important materials are not only preserved, but also available for scholars and students has always been the key reason behind the special collections, says Jim Kuhn, the newly appointed Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation. “Our rare and unique holdings are here for use by the campus and greater community,” says Kuhn. “Digitization expands our reach, but there is often no substitute for access to the original object in our reading rooms and classrooms.”

From his vantage point astride the analog world of historical artifacts and the digital world of technology, Kuhn offers a guided tour of a few selected treasures from Rochester’s collections.

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Inventory of the Library at St. Victor of Marseille (1374)

Latin manuscript on vellum roll

A fascinating and ancient object in the collection is a library catalog, dated April 20, 1374, of the library at St. Victor of Marseille, a monastery founded by John Cassian in 415 CE. The manuscript on vellum is one of five known surviving inventories, is complete and properly notarized, and was written just four years after the death of Pope Urban V. Prior to his election, Urban V—born Guillaume de Grimoard—had been the abbot of the monastery, which had benefited considerably during Urban’s papal reign. The library at St. Victor consisted of approximately 700 volumes with, not unexpectedly, a strong emphasis on works of theology and Biblical commentary. The classics of the ancient and medieval worlds and a respectable collection of law books are also noted in the catalog. Reconstructing libraries on the basis of catalogs like this one has been attempted by librarians and scholars; manuscript digitization projects have made the work considerably easier in recent years. I hope that a student or class might take up the challenge for this important record.﻿

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Two ‘Passes’ for the Underground Railroad

Frederick Douglass

The department has strong 19th-century manuscript collections related to the Civil War, and to the abolition and women’s suffrage movements. Among our most compelling items are passes to Rochester safe houses on the Underground Railroad, each written by Frederick Douglass about persons who remain—for obvious reasons—unidentified on paper. Unidentified, yet poignantly close. By studying such original documents, students and scholars can better understand the transit north of escapees from slavery. “My Dear Sir” is Douglass’s close friend Samuel Drummond Porter, who frequently concealed men and women in the barn on the property of his sisters. His own property on South Fitzhugh Street in Rochester was under near- constant surveillance. “My Dear Mrs. Post” is addressed to the Rochester suffrage and abolition activist Amy Post, a central figure in an ongoing digital humanities project to transcribe and digitize the papers of this family of 19th-century “revolutionaries.”

Online: the Post papers: http://postfamily.library.rochester.edu;

the Douglass collection: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/douglass.﻿﻿

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A New Selection of Hymns for Juvenile Delinquents (1820) and The Good Child’s Little Hymn Book (1821)

Isaac Watts (New York, NY: Mahlon Day)

The libraries opened an exhibition this spring called Acquiring Minds: Building Special Collections, 2009–14.﻿ Conceived to provide a sense of the range of recent collecting activities in support of study, teaching, and advanced research, we paired up new acquisitions with items long held by the department. Sharing how we build on existing strengths we hoped might spark new and renewed interest in the many well-known and the perhaps not-so-well-known opportunities for research and teaching presented by our rare holdings. The exhibition also provides an important opportunity for public acknowledgement of the funds and donors that help strengthen the research collections now available here to all of us. Among items added to the collection in the past year on view include titles published by the early 19th-century New York City publisher Mahlon Day (1790–1854). Acquired through the support of the Mary Faulk Markiewicz Fund as an addition to the Markiewicz Collection of Children’s Books, these charming small books for children include alphabets, hymns, and Bible stories and can be profusely illustrated with woodcuts, sometimes hand-colored. The original collection was donated by Victor Markiewicz in honor of his late wife, Mary, with an endowment fund to support acquisitions, in 1983. In the decades since we have continued to build its strength in American and English children’s books published prior to 1920. Two of my own favorite recent additions include this pair of A New Selection of Hymns for Juvenile Delinquents﻿ (1820) and The Good Child’s Little Hymn Book﻿ (1821).﻿

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Autograph Letter of Abraham Lincoln (1862)

Signed to James A. McDougal, U.S. Senate

History is full of “what if” moments: in a March 6, 1862, message to Congress, President Abraham Lincoln advocated a scheme for gradual, compensated emancipation among slave-holding border states. The plan would be to buy the freedom of slaves directly, rather than paying the financial and human costs of war. But opposition to the idea was fierce, and so Lincoln engaged directly with opponents via letters like this remarkable March 14, 1862, letter to “War Democrat” Senator James McDougal of California in which Lincoln points out that “[l]ess than one half-day’s cost of this war would pay for all the slaves in Delaware . . . ” and that “ . . . less than eighty seven days cost of this war would, at the same price, pay for all in Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri.” Although in the end such lobbying efforts by the White House failed, with no border state stepping forward to voluntarily give up slavery in return for such “pecuniary aid,” Lincoln’s annual message to Congress on December 1, 1862, renewed calls for both compensated emancipation and for colonization. A second “fair hand” copy of this letter exists in the collection of the Library of Congress. While there may be no way to be sure which of Lincoln’s three private secretaries created that copy, we do know that William Stoddard, Class of 1858, served Lincoln in that capacity from 1861 to 1864, and is believed to have copied out the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Online: Lincoln’s letters: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/lincoln.﻿﻿

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Original Typescript of Grendel with Author’s Corrections (c. 1970)

John Gardner

Some 43 years after its initial publication in 1971, the retelling of the Beowulf legend from the point of view of its monster character in Grendel﻿ remains one of John Gardner’s best-known and well-loved works. The department holds the collection of record of John Gardner among its 20th-century literary collections, including original typescripts, proof copies, first American and other editions and translations, correspondence, and reviews. Written, as novelist-reviewer D. Keith Mano has noted, “in a poet’s prose,” Grendel in typescript with authorial corrections, provides a vivid glimpse into the artistic mind at work. Studying his changes shows Gardner’s aesthetic and moral values. In the words of Phyllis Andrews, the curator of Modern Literature Collections, examining where the pages have been extensively marked up in blue and black ink, and in red pencil “does not fail to evoke awe from student viewers.”﻿

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Trial Printings of Texts for The Holy Grail (1870), ‘Property,’ and ‘Lucretius’ (1868)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rowland Collins chaired the English faculty from 1972 to 1981 and bequeathed his collection of Alfred Lord Tennyson books, manuscripts, letters, and other memorabilia to special collections. Exhibited in 1992, the collection continues to be added to through the Rowland L. Collins Book Fund. During the past six months we purchased an extraordinary “trial book” of unique proof sheets for “Property” and “Lucretius” (the first and last of the seven Other Poems﻿ published in 1869), and one of only two surviving second proof states for the Arthurian poem The Holy Grail.﻿ Throughout his career, Tennyson fought for authorial control of both content and presentation, moving from publisher to publisher, and sharing authorial revisions with friends on what has been called a “return or burn" basis. For that reason, authentic Tennyson proof sheets such as these (also known as “trial books”) are quite rare, and were often forged in the 19th century. Beyond support for Tennyson scholarship, proof sheets provide teaching material related to the role of revision in the writing process, 19th-century printing and publishing history, cultural transmission, and forgery. We hope this addition will also strengthen research potential for Arthurian scholars working in Robbins Library and beyond through the Robbins Library digital projects, including adding digital images to Tennyson texts available in the online Camelot Project.

Online: the Camelot Project: http://library.rochester.edu/camelot.﻿﻿

treasuresTREASURE KEEPER: As the Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, Jim Kuhn oversees Rochester’s historic collections. (Photo: Adam Fenster)

Introducing the Lambert and Schleifer Director

A former librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., Jim Kuhn was installed this spring as the Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation.

The position was named in recognition of a $1 million commitment from Joseph Lambert ’59 and his partner, Harold Schleifer. The position plays a key role in the University’s efforts to preserve, digitize, and share historic collections.

As an undergraduate at Rochester, Lambert worked in Rush Rhees Library, locating and checking out books—and even tending the fires of the Welles-Brown Room. Schleifer, at 14 years old, shelved books at the New York Public Library. While Lambert went on to become an ophthalmologist, Schleifer pursued a master’s degree in library science and eventually became the dean of the University Library at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Kuhn, who earned master’s degrees in library science and philosophy at Kent State University, oversaw cataloging, technical services, and collection information services at Folger, where he last served as the interim Eric Weinmann Librarian.

He is a councilor-at-large for the American Library Association.﻿

Campus Keepsakes

For the first 70 years or so of the University’s existence, the archives were often, quite literally, the “University’s attic.” But with the expansion of the University in the 1920s, and perhaps the celebration of the 75th anniversary in 1925, materials of special value and importance to the life of the University began to be formally collected for posterity.

In addition to highlighting a few of those treasures for the 2014 history, Our Work Is But Begun: A History of the University of Rochester, 1850–2005, by Janice Bullard Pieterse (University of Rochester Press, 2014), Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian, is putting together an exhibition on University history, which will be on display in Rush Rhees Library this fall. Here are her descriptions of a few favorites:

University Charter

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The original charter of the University was granted in 1851, providing for the “Establishment of an institution of the highest order for scientific and classical education.”

Consisting of 12 vellum leaves, plus one blank leaf at the end, the charter is signed by the chancellor of the University of the State of New York, and sealed with the Great Seal of the University of the State of New York. A key symbol of office, the charter is presented to each president at inauguration.

Course of Instruction

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Rochester was one of the first American institutions of higher education to offer a bachelor of science degree, a program of study that allowed students at the time to skip Latin and Greek. The idea was so new that an 1850 report to the trustees acknowledged that some would find it “a radical and dangerous innovation.”

For the first two years, students in both BA and BS tracks studied history, literature, mathematics, “natural philosophy” (science), and languages. During junior and senior years, all students continued courses in literature and philosophy, but candidates for the BA elected additional credits from three subject areas: mathematics and mechanics; natural sciences, including chemistry; and classical languages. Bachelor of science students could study French or German, and pursued studies in both of the scientific departments.

The ‘Anderson Bell’

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The bronze bell summoned students to class at the United States Hotel until 1861, and in Anderson Hall until 1876. The bell ringer was usually the janitor—James Noble and his successor, Elijah Withall—who would take it out of a locked cupboard and ring it on the hour.

With the addition of Sibley Hall, the handbell was replaced by one that was rung using a rope and could be heard in both buildings.

Rush Rhees’s Pocket Watch

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A colleague from Rush Rhees’s years at Newton Theological Institution (1892–1900) reminisced: “He seemed to me like a well-adjusted, well-oiled machine, working to the exact second without hurry or fuss. I was puffing up the hill one day. Rhees said, ‘Plenty of time.’ He then told me that after much experience he had calculated that if he was at the tree at the corner of Chase Street by the time the bell rang in Colby Hall tower, his usual pace would land him at his classroom desk in ample time to be composed when the buzzer rang. If the bell rang before he reached the tree, he must put on steam, and that he disliked to do. I took it that this was an application of his mathematical training to affairs of daily life. He was quick in thought, speech, and action, but I have no recollection of any sign of nervous haste or ‘rush’ in my five years’ association with him.”

Metzdorf Pocket Knife and Keys

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The fraternity and honorary society keys belonged to Robert Metzdorf ’33, ’39 (PhD), a prominent bibliographer and appraiser of rare books and manuscripts. Attached by a chain to his mother-of-pearl pocketknife, they include his Phi Beta Kappa key, and fobs of Delta Rho, the Troubadours, Pro Concordia, the Mendicants, and Delta Phi Alpha, and an alumni award from Theta Chi, presented to him in 1949.

Metzdorf earned the first PhD in English from the University; his thesis was an examination—still consulted to this day—of the autograph collection given to the University by Charles Brown, Class of 1879, trustee, and eponymous donor, with Francis Welles, Class of 1875, of the Welles-Brown Room.

‘Unused’ Version of the Anderson Statue

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The statue of a boldly striding Martin Brewer Anderson is a familiar and beloved sight, dating to 1905 when it was first placed in front of Anderson Hall on the Prince Street Campus; with the merging of the colleges for men and women, the statue was transferred to the River Campus where it stands in the Wilson Quadrangle.

But there’s another Anderson statue, one which was created by one alumnus and given by another. Paul Winters Morris attended Rochester for two years from 1882 to 1884 and then again from 1884 to 1886 but did not finish his degree. Instead he went on to study sculpture with Augustus St. Gaudens and Daniel Chester French in New York City, and then moved to Paris to continue his training. Morris died of pneumonia in 1916 in New York City.

According to a 1918 letter from Waldo Morse, Class of 1882, to President Rush Rhees, Morse’s widow discovered the model for the statue in her husband’s studio and showed it to French, “who pronounced the work to be a gem.”

The decision to portray Anderson seated may be a result of timing: Morris knew Anderson in the last decade of the president’s life, when rheumatism had taken its toll and he walked with two canes.

Churchill Telegram

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“Members of the Class of 1941 will probably remember their Commencement day for many years to come,” reported that year’s June-July Rochester Review. Graduates sitting in Eastman Theatre, along with millions of others, heard Winston Churchill give his first address to an American audience since taking the post of England’s prime minister.

The announcement of the degree, Churchill’s first from an American university, was held as top secret up to the day of graduation, as the telegram from Frederick Hovde to Alan Valentine confirms.

Valentine’s initial proposal to Churchill dates to January of 1941, and begins: “Acting for the Board of Trustees of this University, I convey to you a very cordial invitation to receive from this University the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, in absentia, on the Annual Commencement Day, June 16, 1941, provided that you are willing at that time to accept that degree by a verbal response via short wave radio, arrangements for which will be made by this University.”

An audio recording of Churchill’s address can be heard here: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/2139.﻿

Ask the Archivist

Got a question about University history? Archivist Melissa Mead has more than 160 years of campus documents and other materials at her fingertips.

archivistFAQ: Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian, helps faculty, staff, students, alumni, and visitors with questions about University history. (Photo: Adam Fenster)

University archivist Melissa Mead is often the person people turn to when they have questions about the University and how it has evolved.

The John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian oversees more than 160 years of materials relating to the University and how it has changed over time—items ranging from the founding charter to campus blueprints to presidential PowerPoint presentations.

When did the University first enroll international students?

Two students in the Class of 1853 were born in Canada and Scotland. The first student from continental Europe was Simon Tuska (1856), and the first from Asia was Theodore Thanbyah (1871).

archivistSimon Tuska (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

Born in Hungary, Tuska moved with his father to the United States in 1850, joining his older brothers in Rochester. The elder Tuska became rabbi at Temple B’rith Kodesh, which was founded in 1848. Simon was awarded one of the first scholarships offered by the University to city students.

Tuska is notable also as the University’s first Jewish student and as our first student (or alumnus) to publish a book. His pamphlet, A Stranger in the Synagogue (1854), was written to answer questions he received from classmates, professors, and others about Judaism and its rites. At this time, it was customary for each senior to give a short speech at commencement; Tuska’s 1856 oration was written and delivered in Greek. Entitled “Ο Κοσμοπολίτς,” it hints that the subject concerns acting as a citizen of the world. The as-yet untranslated manuscript is in his alumni file.

To train for the rabbinate, Tuska went to Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), and is thought to be the first American to study abroad for that purpose. Tuska believed that Jews of his generation, raised in America, would expect their rabbis to preach in English; upon his return to the United States, he gave sermons in Rochester and New York, and then found a receptive congregation in Memphis, Tenn., where he served until his death in 1870 at the age of 35.

archivistTheodore Thanbyah (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

Theodore Thanbyah, Class of 1871, traveled from Burma to attend the University. Baptist missionaries, including the father of Willard Abbott, Class of 1858, worked in Bassein (now known as Pathein, Myanmar), where Thanbyah was born among the Karen minority. In the United States, Thanbyah first enrolled at Shurtleff College, a Baptist institution in Upper Alton, Ill., for some preparatory studies, and entered the University in September 1868, at the age of 26. After graduation, Thanbyah attended the Rochester Theological Seminary. In 1874, he returned to Burma to become a pastor, a municipal commissioner, a teacher, and president of the National Karen Association. Thanbyah was profiled in Review in 2012, and several offers have been received to provide English translations of his autobiography.

Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony are such prominent figures in University history: who were our first African-American and female graduates?

archivistCharles Augustus Thompson (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

Charles Augustus Thompson is believed to be the first African-American to graduate from the University, as a member of the Class of 1891. In a survey of seniors in the Campus (forerunner of the Campus Times), he was one of only three students (out of a class of 34) to wholly support his own education. After graduating, Thompson studied theology in Memphis and then served as principal of the Porter School there from 1892 to 1907. He continued to study—at the Howe Institute, at Howard Medical College, and at Central Chiropractic College—and to teach, and later preach, as pastor of the Fairmount Heights Presbyterian Church in Washington. He also was a chiropractic practitioner. Thompson died in Washington, D.C., in 1934.

archivistHenry Spencer (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

On the registrar’s lists for the class of 1885 was Henry Spencer. Enrolling as a freshman at age 26, Spencer attended for four years; for reasons as yet unclear, he was not granted a degree. Spencer is listed in the 1885 Interpres as “class poet” and in a Campus report on the activities of senior week, Spencer offered one of the toasts during the class dinner at the Powers Hotel. The class prophecy predicted that “Spencer [would give] the strength of his life to the service of his race. As in college so in after life . . . conscientious, faithful, and successful.” By 1888, Spencer was named a committeeman-at-large at the Republican City Convention; he would later work as a clerk in the New York Assembly Speaker’s office in Albany for 31 years. He died in Rochester in 1935.

archivistElla Salome Wilcoxen (Photo: University Libraries/Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation)

Our first female graduate was Ella Salome Wilcoxen, Class of 1901. Wilcoxen was in her mid-30s when she applied to be admitted as a senior, and according to faculty meeting minutes from September 17, 1900, a special faculty committee was formed to approve her request. Rather than examine a transcript (if she submitted one), the committee advised Wilcoxen “to present, in person, her application blank for advanced standing to the different members of the faculty and get their official endorsements.”

By September 21, when the special committee met, it appears that the necessary endorsements had been obtained, and the committee gave its approval.

U.S. Census records report her living in Macedon, N.Y., with her parents and siblings and younger brother, Wilfred, who preceded his sister at the University, and graduated in 1899. After graduation, she continued her studies, attending Illinois Wesleyan University from 1903 to 1905. By 1920, she was seeking employment as a teacher, and a letter of reference in her alumna file describes her as appearing to be “a woman of force in character.” The only photograph we have of Wilcoxen was probably made prior to 1900, as she appears younger than she would have been when she attended the University. She died in 1933.

Is the origin of the Yellowjacket name connected to the presence of wasps at Oak Hill, or because our players wore yellow?

“A Buffalo player on Saturday called the Varsity, ‘Yellow Jackets,’ not because of their equipment, but rather their sting.” J. Howard Garnish ’27 probably* reported this in the November 5, 1926, Campus, and so the legend was born. The following week Garnish christened the team officially, writing, “Go to it, you Yellow Jackets! On to Rensselaer!” (We shut out Buffalo, 32–0, and trounced RPI 47–6.)

The 1926 date is significant: Oak Hill was transformed into the River Campus in 1930, and was not reported as harboring a large insect population. Yellow was chosen as a school color in 1893, and has its “roots” in the dandelions found on Azariah Boody’s pasture land, which became the Prince Street Campus in 1861, and remains the home of the Memorial Art Gallery.

* The comment appeared in an unsigned boxed editorial paragraph; the following week he signed it with his initials.

Do you have a question about University history? Email it to rochrev@rochester.edu. Please put “Ask the Archivist” in the subject line.

The Power of Professorships

With its original goal for endowed professorships already met, The Meliora Challenge sets a new target: establishing 100 such positions for Rochester faculty by 2016.

By Scott Hauser

The Meliora Challenge has marked a milestone moment: the $1.2 billion comprehensive campaign this spring reached its goal of establishing 80 endowed professorships.

With two years to go, the target has been increased to 100 endowed positions by the time the Campaign is scheduled to end in June 2016.

“This is a milestone achievement to be celebrated,” President Joel Seligman said. “It is safe to say that just as great cathedrals are built brick by brick, great universities are built professorship by professorship.

“The work of our faculty is among the most enduring aspects of our University, and our alumni and friends who support their work by endowing professorships deserve our recognition and thanks.”

A key component of the Campaign’s $350 million goal for faculty support, endowed professorships are part of a long-standing tradition to celebrate faculty while also recognizing the intergenerational power of donor support for the University.

Endowed positions also help retain and attract talented faculty members who are leaders in their fields, schools, and the local community, as well as provide critical funds to support research.

Generous support from alumni, faculty, and friends of the University has driven the early success of the endowed professorship initiative, prompting the new target.

Reaching the new goal would nearly double the number of endowed professorships at the University, which counted a total of 107 such faculty positions when the Campaign first got under way in 2005.

Ceremonies to recognize inaugural appointees and the supporters of each new position began in 2006. So far, nearly four dozen events have been held, with more celebrations planned well into the future.

Here’s a roster of Rochester’s latest endowed professorships—those established between July 1, 2005, and June 30, 2014.

Edward J. and Agnes V. Ackley Executive Professorship in Entrepreneurship

Dennis Kessler, a faculty member at the Simon School. The professorship was established by Edward ’53, ’64S (MS) and Agnes Van Branteghem Ackley ’54.

Lindsey Distinguished Professorship for Pediatric Research

Francis Gigliotti ’83M (Flw), chief of the Division of Pediatric Diseases at Golisano Children’s Hospital. The position was endowed by microbiologist Porter Anderson Jr., who named it after one of the first children to receive the Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine that Anderson codeveloped.

Doris Johns Cherry Professorship

The professorship was established with an estate gift from Doris Johns Cherry ’43. An appointee is to be determined.

Corrigan-Minehan Professorship in Political Science

Lawrence Rothenberg, professor of political science. The professorship was part of a gift from E. Gerald Corrigan and University Trustee Cathy Jones Minehan ’68.

Beverly Petterson Bishop M ’46 and Charles W. Bishop PhD ’46 Endowed Professorship in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Michael Tanenhaus, professor of brain and cognitive sciences and of linguistics. The professorship was named for the late Charles ’46M (PhD) and the late Beverly Petterson Bishop ’46 (MA).

Lionel McKenzie Professorship

Named for the founder of Rochester’s graduate program in economics, the professorship was established with a gift from the late Fred Jensen ’42. An appointee is to be determined.

Janice M. and Joseph T. Willett Professorship

Ronald Schmidt, who developed and chaired the Simon School’s Executive Development (MBA) Program at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. The professorship was established by University Trustee Janice Willett ’78S (MBA) and Joseph Willett ’75S (MBA).

Dr. Arcangelo J. Madonia ’38 and Annette Madonia Professorship

The position was established by the late Arcangelo and late Annette Madonia. An appointee is to be determined.

Frederick Douglass Professorship

Established with a gift from the late Fred Jensen ’42, the professorship recognizes the Rochester-based abolitionist and activist. An appointee is to be determined.

Brian J. Thompson Professorship in Optical Engineering

Jannick Rolland, professor of optics. Named in honor of Thompson, provost emeritus and former director of the Institute of Optics, the professorship was endowed by University Trustee John Bruning.

Richard S. Eisenberg Professorship in Chemistry

The position was named in recognition of Eisenberg, the Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry. An appointee is to be determined.

Kenneth G. Burton, MD Annual Visiting Professor in Pediatric Orthopaedics

The position was established by Richard Burton ’64M (Res) in memory of his father. An appointee is to be determined.

Louis S. Wolk Distinguished Professorship in Medicine

Stephen Hammes, professor of endocrinology. Named in recognition of the Louis S. and Molly B. Wolk Foundation, the professorship honors Wolk, a prominent Rochester real estate entrepreneur and civic philanthropist.

Louis and Dorothy Lange Professorship in Chemistry

University Trustee Louis Lange ’70 established the professorship in memory of his parents, Louis and Dorothy. An appointee is to be determined.

Joseph W. Goodman Professorship in Optics

The position was established by Goodman, an engineer and physicist at Stanford University. An appointee is to be determined.

Founders’ Distinguished Professorship of Pediatric Allergy

The professorship was established by Eric Dreyfuss, clinical assistant professor at Golisano Children’s Hospital. An appointee is to be determined.

Marilyn and Michael Rosen Endowed Professorship

The position was established with a gift from University Trustee Michael Rosen ’82, ’83S (MBA) and Marilyn Rosen. An appointee is to be determined.

Graduate Dean of Academic Affairs

The position was established by an anonymous donor. An appointee is to be determined.

Rajesh Wadhawan Professorship

The position was established by the Wadhawan family. An appointee is to be determined.

Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professorship of Families and Health

Susan McDaniel, professor of psychiatry. Endowed by the Sands Family Foundation, the professorship was named in honor of the late Laurie Anne Sands ’76M (MD).

Fields Endowed Professorship

The professorship was established by Richard Fields on behalf of the Fields Family Foundation. An appointee is to be determined.

William H. Eilinger Chair of Pediatrics

Nina Schor, pediatrician-in-chief at Golisano Children’s Hospital. The position was established with a gift from Eilinger’s estate.

Joseph F. Cunningham Professorship

Robert Westbrook, professor of history. The professorship was established by Joseph Cunningham ’67 (MA).

Susanna and Evans Y. Lam Professorship

Joanna Wu, professor of accounting at the Simon School. The professorship was established by University Trustee Evans Lam ’83, ’84S (MBA) and Susanna Lam.

William and Sheila Konar Endowed Professorship

Anton Porsteinsson ’93M (Res), director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Care, Research, and Education Program. The position was established by Bill and Sheila Konar.

James N. Doyle, Sr. Professorship in Entrepreneurship

Ronald Goettler, associate professor of business administration at the Simon School. The professorship was established by James Doyle Jr. in honor of his father’s career at the Simon School.

Michael and Diane Jones Professorship

Toni Whited, professor at the Simon School. The professorship was established by University Trustee Michael Jones ’76 and Diane Jones.

Haggerty-Friedman Professorship in Developmental/Behavioral Pediatric Research

The position was established by two Rochester faculty members: the late Stanford Friedman ’57M (MD), who helped launched the field of behavioral pediatrics, and Robert Haggerty, who was chair of pediatrics during Friedman’s tenure at the Medical Center. An appointee is to be determined.

Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professorship in English

Kenneth Gross, professor of English. The professorship was established by University Trustee Alan Hilfiker ’60.

Lori and Alan S. Zekelman Professorship of Business Administration

Robert Novy-Marx, professor of finance at the Simon School. The professorship was established by Alan ’87S (MS) and Lori Talsky-Zekelman.

Richard T. Bell Endowed Professorship

Yuhchyau Chen, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and a physician at the Wilmot Cancer Institute. The position was established by Bell, who was a patient of Chen’s.

Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music

Jamal Rossi, dean and professor of woodwinds at the Eastman School. The deanship was endowed by University Trustee Martin Messinger ’49 and the late Joan Messinger.

Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Professorship

The position was established by Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim ’61, ’82 (MS). An appointee is to be determined.

Denham S. Ward, MD, PhD Professorship

Michael Eaton, professor of anesthesiology. The professorship was established by several donors to recognize Ward, professor emeritus of anesthesiology.

Hazel Fyfe Professorship in Economics

Mark Bils, professor of economics. The professorship was named for the late Hazel Fyfe ’46.

Arthur R. Miller Professorship of History

Thomas Slaughter, professor of history. The professorship was established by noted legal scholar and analyst Arthur Miller ’56, ’08 (Honorary).

Saunders Family Distinguished Professorship in Neuromuscular Research

Charles Thornton ’91M (Flw), professor of neurology. The professorship was established as part of a gift from Rochester businessman E. Philip Saunders and his family.

E. Philip and Carole Saunders Professorship in Neuromuscular Research

The position was established by E. Philip and Carole Saunders. An appointee is to be determined.

Dr. Stephen I. Rosenfeld and Elise A. Rosenfeld Distinguished Professorship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Richard Looney, professor of medicine, allergy, and immunology and rheumatology. The position was established by Stephen ’59, ’63M (MD) and Elise Rosenfeld ’60W.

C. Jane Davis and C. Robert Davis Distinguished Professorship in Pulmonary Medicine

Patricia Sime, professor of medicine. The position was established to recognize Paul Levy, the Charles A. Dewey Professor of Medicine, by the late physician Jane Davis for her and in memory of her late brother, Bob Davis.

Gordon Fyfe Professorship in Economics

The professorship was named for the late Gordon Fyfe ’46. An appointee is to be determined.

Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professorship in Biology

John (Jack) Werren, professor of biology. The professorship was established by University Trustee Nathaniel (Nat) Wisch ’55 and Helen Wisch.

Dr. Elizabeth R. McAnarney Professorship in Pediatrics Funded by Roger and Carolyn Friedlander

Richard Kreipe, professor of pediatrics. The position was endowed by University Trustee Roger Friedlander ’56 and Carolyn Friedlander ’68 PNP in recognition of Elizabeth McAnarney, a former pediatrician-in-chief at Golisano Children’s Hospital.

John J. Kuiper Distinguished Professorship

David Bushinsky, chief of nephrology at the Medical Center. The position was established by retired nephrologist John Kuiper ’65M (Res).

Ernest and Thelma Del Monte Distinguished Professorship in Neuromedicine

Webster Pilcher ’83M (MD/PhD), ’89M (Res), professor of neurology. The position was established by the late Rochester businessman and University Trustee Ernest Del Monte and the late Thelma Del Monte.

Dominick J. Argento Professorship

The professorship was established by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Dominick Argento ’58E (PhD). An appointee is to be determined.

Julius, Helen, and Robert Fine Professorship

The position was established at the suggestion of Paul Fine ’49, ’61M (MD), ’66M (Res) by his nephew, Robert Fine, in his and his parents’ names. An appointee is to be determined.

Paul L. Yudkofsky Professorship in Pediatrics

The professorship was established by Beverly Yudkofsky in memory of her late husband, Paul. An appointee is to be determined.

Dr. C. McCollister Evarts Professorship in Orthopaedics

The position was established by Mac Evarts ’57M (MD), ’64M (Res), a former Medical Center CEO. An appointee is to be determined.

Distinguished Professorship in the University of Rochester Medical Center

The position was established by an anonymous donor. An appointee is to be determined.

Professorship in Biomedical Engineering

The professorship was established by an anonymous donor. An appointee is to be determined.

Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Distinguished Professorship in Palliative Care

Timothy Quill ’76M (MD), ’79M (Res), ’81M (Flw), director of the University’s Palliative Care Program. The position was established by Georgia Gosnell and her late husband, Thomas.

Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Professorship in Quality and Safety

Robert Panzer ’80M (Res), ’82M (Flw), chief quality officer for the Medical Center and Strong Memorial Hospital. The position was established by Georgia Gosnell and her late husband, Thomas.

Dr. James C. Wyant Professorship in Optics

Govind Agrawal, professor of optics and physics. The professorship was established by University Trustee James Wyant ’69 (PhD), who also established the M. Parker Givens Professorship in Optics.

Shohei Koide Professorship in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Jeffrey Hayes, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. The position was established through patent revenues generated from technology developed by Koide, who was a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics from 1995 to 2002.

Richard and Margaret Burton Distinguished Professorship in Orthopaedics

Edward Schwarz, professor of orthopaedics. The position was established by Richard ’64M (Res) and Margaret Burton.

Jay S. and Jeanne P. Benet Professor of Finance

Ron Kaniel, professor of finance at the Simon School. The position was established by Jay ’76S (MBA) and Jeanne Benet.

Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professorship in Public Health and Policy

Theodore (Ted) Brown, professor of history. The position was established by University Professor Charles Phelps, provost emeritus, and Dale Phelps, professor and former chief of the Medical Center’s neonatology division.

Adeline Lutz Distinguished Professorship in Ophthalmology

Steven Ching ’74M (MD), ’81M (Res), professor of ophthalmology. The late Adeline (Lynn) and late Walter (Jack) Lutz established the professorship.

Dexter Perkins Professorship in History

Joan Shelley Rubin, professor of history. Named in honor of the late Dexter Perkins, a prominent American diplomatic historian, the position was established with lead gifts from Robert Kirkwood ’56 (PhD), Francis Grebe ’54, and other donors.

Joseph M. Lobozzo II Professorship

Walter Pegoli Jr., director of pediatric trauma at Golisano Children’s Hospital. The position was established by Lobozzo.

Professorship in Orthopaedics

The professorship was established by an anonymous donor. The appointee is to be determined.

Professorship in Political Science

The professorship was established by an anonymous donor. The appointee is to be determined.

Ramon and Judith Ricker Saxophone Professorship, and Ramon and Judith Ricker Jazz Saxophone Professorship

The positions were established by Ramon (Ray) Ricker ’73E (DMA), the former director of the Institute for Music Leadership, and Judith Ricker ’76E, ’81E (MM), ’91S (MBA). Appointees are to be determined.

Hansjörg Wyss Professorship

Stephen Kates ’89M (Res), professor of orthopaedics. The position was endowed by Swiss entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss.

Catherine E. Aquavella Distinguished Professorship in Ophthalmology

James Aquavella, professor of ophthalmology. Aquavella established the position in memory of his late wife and holds it as an honorary position.

Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD Distinguished Professorship

Arthur Moss ’62M (Res), professor of medicine and cardiology. Established by Bradford Berk ’81M (MD/PhD), the CEO of UR Medicine and the Medical Center.

Robert C. and Rosalyne H. Griggs Professorship in the Experimental Therapeutics of Neurological Disease

The position was established by Robert Griggs, a former chair of the Department of Neurology. An appointee is to be determined.

Robert L. McCrory Professorship

Riccardo Betti, professor of mechanical engineering and of physics and astronomy. Endowed by an anonymous donor, the professorship honors McCrory, the director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics for three decades.

Benefactor Distinguished Professorship

Gary Morrow, professor of surgery. The position was established by an anonymous donor. An appointee is to be determined.

James D. Thompson Chief Advancement Officer (Endowed by Larry and Cindy Bloch)

Established by University Trustee Larry Bloch ’75 and Cindy Bloch, the position recognizes Thompson, the University’s former chief advancement officer. An appointee is to be determined.

Ani and Mark Gabrellian Professorship

David Primo, professor of political science. The professorship was established by University Trustee Ani Nazerian Gabrellian ’84 and Mark Gabrellian ’79.

James V. Aquavella, M.D. Professorship in Ophthalmology

The fund was established by Aquavella, professor of ophthalmology. An appointee is to be determined.

Northumberland Trust Professorship in Pediatrics

Ruth Lawrence, professor of pediatrics. The position was established by an anonymous donor.

David M. Levy Professorship in Neurology

Ray Dorsey, professor of neurology. The position was established with an estate gift from Levy.

Wilmot Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Genomics

The position was established by the Wilmot family and the James P. Wilmot Foundation. An appointee is to be determined.

Frederick A. Horner, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Neurology

Jonathan Mink, professor of neurology. Established by Marjorie Horner in memory of her husband, Frederick Horner ’47M (MD), who joined the pediatric neurology faculty in 1968.

Michael C. Jensen Professorship

The fund was established by Martin Lacoff ’71S (MBA) in honor of former Simon School professor Michael Jensen. An appointee is to be determined.

Northumberland Trust Professorship in Neuroscience

The position was established by an anonymous donor. An appointee is to be determined.

Carol Anne Brink Professorship

The position was established in honor of Brink, associate professor emerita of clinical nursing. An appointee is to be determined.

Independence Chair in Nursing and Palliative Care

Sally Norton, associate professor of nursing. The professorship was established by the Independence Foundation.

Parenting with Heart and Mind

When attorney Notoya Green ’98 gave birth to triplets, she took a career turn.

By Karen McCally ’02 (PhD)

greenWORK & PLAY: “Years ago, I don’t think people thought about parenting as something to write about or talk about. It was something you just did,” says parenting columnist and blogger Green, pictured with her triplets, Eva, David, and Samuel. (Photo: Courtesy of Notoya Green ’98)

It’s often said that being a parent is the hardest and most rewarding job there is. It’s rarely said that the challenges of the job are intellectually hard or rewarding. Yet Notoya Green ’98 is one of a growing number of highly educated mothers who’ve found in one of the world’s oldest jobs an occupational calling.

Tips from Notoya Green

Five ways to get kids to help around the house:

Call them “helpers.” A University study recently published in conjunction with Stanford University showed that calling kids helpers motivates them more to help out with household chores and other tasks.

Avoid giving them chores as a form of punishment.

Assign chores that are age appropriate so that children feel they are accomplishing rather than struggling with a task.

Kids need consistency, so make the chores a routine.

Don’t forget to praise children for their help. Kids want and need positive reinforcement, just like adults.

Adapted from Triplets in Tribeca (http://tripletsintribeca.com). Used with permission.

And of course those benefits:

Helps language development. Following commands helps them follow directions in school and at home.

Teaches responsibility. Having a sense of responsibility is important throughout life, and, researchers are now finding that character traits like conscientiousness are more predictive of success than IQ.

Makes them better citizens. When kids help out at home they’re learning that they are a part of a community and that all people all have a duty to contribute to that community.

Enhances self-esteem. Kids like having jobs and feeling needed.

Teaches them about the world. Like adults, kids learn from doing and when they are more involved, they better understand how the world works.

“I care very deeply about helping us all learn more about parenting,” says Green, who gave birth to triplets in 2010. Since then, she’s taken her liberal arts and professional education—a degree in history from Rochester as well as a law degree from Fordham—her thoughtful bent, and her unusual circumstances as a mother of triplets, and carved out a role for herself speaking and writing about childrearing.

She writes a monthly column, “Downtown Mommy,” for Manhattan Family, a magazine launched in 2012 to meet a demand for parenting advice tailored to big city family life. She’s a regular contributor to Essence, a general interest magazine targeted to African-American women. She makes frequent appearances on NBC Connecticut and other New York City television talk shows. And she maintains a blog, Triplets in Tribeca.

A generation or two ago, articles about childrearing were most often to be found amidst pieces on cooking and homemaking in magazines targeted to suburban married women. Today, articles on raising children get prime real estate in so-called “serious” media venues such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, which interviewed Green in 2012 for an article about screening nannies.

“Years ago, I don’t know if people thought about parenting as something to write about or talk about,” Green says. “There have been people like Dr. [Benjamin] Spock. But as more of us have become college educated, I think we’re thinking about child development very differently now than we did years ago.”

Even before the birth of her own children, Green had spent a great deal of time thinking about children and their development. An attorney, she specialized in family law, first in private practice, then for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. Her legal experience is one factor that distinguishes her in the crowded field of self-styled parenting experts. For the Wall Street Journal, for example, she could offer parents advice on how to identify—or locate those who could identify—potential red flags while hiring child care help.

Her own children—David, Eva, and Samuel—were born just 26 weeks into her pregnancy. They spent their first months in a neonatal intensive care unit. For their first year, Green and her husband, Fred Mwangaguhunga, devoted their attention to the most fundamental aspects of their children’s health. Were their organs developing properly? Would they have normal vision and hearing? It made Green protective.

“I thought of my kids as being very fragile,” she says. “I made the decision to be very present, to leave my career. I had a lot of help—at one time two full-time nannies—but I was always present because I was just so concerned about the care they would receive from anyone.”

Because premature infants are at risk for developmental problems, Green had more incentive than most new parents to familiarize herself with research about such disorders as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, just to name a couple of the neurological problems premature babies are more likely than full-term babies to develop.

But with more knowledge about child development—physical, neurological, and psychological—come more questions. “I think it’s fair to say that raising children, on some level, is a bit more challenging now,” says Green, alluding to conditions such as autism and ADHD that were unnamed or unknown to most parents just a generation ago. “Many of us have questions.”

In September, David, Eva, and Samuel started preschool. They’ve thrived, and Green has now focused her attention on the ordinary dimensions of caring for young children. Toddler safety. Making friends at school. And simple joys, like watching Samuel form his first letters.

She’s also addressed challenges stay-at-home parents face in their own lives, such as re-entering the paid workforce.

“I always loved my job as a lawyer,” Green says. “But when I meet a similarly situated mother, we can talk forever. It’s something we can all relate to, because all of us have been children. And at some point, some of us become parents.”

Set Your Ray Gun for ‘Zap’

Optics engineer Stephen Wilk ’84 (MS) explains some of the science that lies behind the futuristic technologies of fictional worlds.

By Maya Dukmasova ’12, ’13 (T5)

raygun (Photo: iStockphoto)

Zapping ray guns, powerful tractor beams, glowing gems–why do these 21st-century marvels exist only in fiction?

For Stephen Wilk ’84 (MS), an editor and contributor at Optics and Photonics News, such questions are part of a lifelong fascination with the intertwining of science and imagination.

“I’ve been collecting weird bits of optics like this for a long time,” he says.

And for more than a decade he has used the magazine’s “Light Touch” column to focus on how optical science is portrayed in the spaceships and galaxies of popular culture, distilling science from science fiction and turning optical oddities into teaching tools.

He’s included some of his favorites in his latest book, How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap: Odd Excursions into Optics (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Wilk’s first book, Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon, was published in 2000. He also pursues creative writing, and has frequently contributed historical fiction, sci-fi, and mystery stories to the e-zine Teemings under his “nom-de-Internet,” Cal Meacham.

“Whenever you’re writing something like science fiction, you want to have something very different from what people are used to,” says Wilk. The trick is to make up story elements that seem scientifically plausible yet beyond current abilities–solid electricity or noisy light, for example.

Wilk has also found that some of the most captivating inventions are ones that are bolstered by the arrival of real-life science that seems to make them possible.

Here’s a brief guide to some of those seemingly possible inventions:

The Ray Gun

While the properties of laser light have influenced many scientific fields over the past half-century, the laser owes its mass appeal to science fiction that preceded the first demonstration of lasers.

The notion of using beams of light as weaponry traces its roots to an 1809 novel by Washington Irving, says Wilk. The erstwhile creator of Ichabod Crane fantasized about invaders from the moon armed with concentrated sun beams. Later, the Martians in H. G. Wells’s 1898 War of the Worlds used invisible heat rays when conquering Earth.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that [the laser] became popular almost as soon as they built the first one because it seemed to be the scientific realization of this ray gun that people had been talking about for such a long time,” says Wilk.

Early sci-fi light weapons were usually silent (the way that real lasers are). The ray gun got its characteristic “zap” in 1928, courtesy of P. F. Nowlan’s story “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” As radio came along, and with it the need to indicate a weapon’s use and power with sound, the notion of zapping light was further reinforced. Film continued the tradition. “People dramatically would like to have a sound when you do something, especially if it involves great amounts of energy or has great physical impact,” says Wilk. The typical ribbed shape of ray guns is “exactly like the shape of an electrical insulator. It’s carrying that metaphor of the electrical breakdown, that ‘zap’ is the sound you hear from Tesla coils or Jacob’s ladders or other showy electrical devices.”

It’s Alive!

What to make of the iconic mad scientist who brings a creature to life with electricity, à la Frankenstein? As convincing as Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein was at depicting the genesis of a monster through electricity, Wilk says there’s no basis for the idea in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. “She carefully restrains from actually saying how it was done. When [Dr. Frankenstein is pressed] by the captain of the polar ship about how he achieved this creation of life, he refuses to do so because he doesn’t want anybody to fall into the same sort of trap.”

But in the preface to his wife’s book, Percy Bysshe Shelley refers to the use of electricity to animate dead flesh. At the time, the experiments of 18th-century Italian scientist Luigi Galvani were well-known. Galvani discovered that when he applied electric current to the legs of dead frogs, the muscles would begin to twitch. That eventually gave rise to wide experimentation with electrical (re)animation in Europe. Some scientists even tried it with human bodies.

The Eye of the Beholder

In the 19th-century there was a popular belief that an image of a killer was imprinted onto a murder victim’s eyes.

And so, in the 1870s, German scientist Wilhelm Friedrich Kühne put popular culture to the test and claimed to discover “optography.” He carefully prepared the eyes of albino rabbits by first keeping them in the dark and then exposing them to a bright, barred window. Swift execution, extraction of the eyes, and separation of the retina followed. Kühne “developed” the retina in alum solution and, behold, the “biological photograph” showed a clear image of the bars.

“He basically overexposed the rabbit’s eyes and then slaughtered it immediately, and then immediately did the development work,” says Wilk. “The idea that you would come back much, much later and see the last thing somebody looked at is really untenable. But for a long time people believed that, and Jules Verne actually used that as a story point in one of his novels.”

Piggy’s Glasses

Suppose you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. As luck would have it, you’re near-sighted. Don’t bother trying to start a fire with your spectacles, despite what you remember from Lord of the Flies. The scene when the boys start a fire using Piggy’s glasses is woefully misleading.

Lenses that correct for myopia are negative, and therefore couldn’t concentrate light to start a fire the way a magnifying glass would. “I wear such glasses myself and it amazes me when I have the sun behind me. I can see the limits of the light that has passed through the lenses, and it’s larger. So obviously it wouldn’t focus the light down,” says Wilk.

Luckily there’s a solution: travel with farsighted friends who wear positive corrective glasses, or fill the concave lens of your glasses with clear water to create a positive effect. Finally, if you feel compelled to go out on an optical excursion of your own, Wilk encourages brushing up on your science knowledge and reading very carefully. “Often any unlikely things or ‘leaps of faith’ are buried inside a lot of scientifically plausible and accurate writing. You have to keep up with your science and technology news.”

Maya Dukmasova ’12, ’13 (T5) is a freelance writer based in Chicago.﻿

Musical Missionary

Violinist Solomia Soroka ’03E (DMA) aims to share “the beauty of Ukrainian music and the beauty of the revolution.”

By Karen McCally ’02 (PhD)

sorokaMAGICAL MUSIC: “Magical” was how one musician described Soroka’s performance of Ukrainian music in Goshen, Ind. The concert brought awareness of events in Ukraine and support for the injured. (Photo: Tony Ding/AP Images for Rochester Review)

For months after the outbreak of anti-government protests in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev last November, violinist Solomia Soroka ’03E (DMA) could do little but follow the news. Her cousins and friends from her childhood in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv were standing in Kiev’s Maiden Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, protesting against the president, whom they believed had just moved the country a big step toward Russian domination.

“I felt inadequate. I felt guilty,” says Soroka, who lives in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is a professor of music at Goshen College in northern Indiana. “I knew all these people were standing there and dying there, and I couldn’t do anything. I knew my grandparents did similar things.”

Soroka’s grandparents, who resisted the Soviet Union as it tried to annex Ukraine in 1944, spent years in Soviet prison camps. Her grandfather died in one, in Siberia.

Her father, the well-known Ukrainian artist Bohdan Soroka, was part of a progressive art and literary movement in the 1960s. He would get summoned for interrogations. “My mother was sometimes afraid that he would never return,” she says.

And when she was a girl growing up in Lviv, Soroka recalls a day when Soviet KGB agents arrived at her family’s home and prevented her from leaving for her violin lesson until they inspected the inside of her violin.

“They were looking for anti-Soviet propaganda,” she says. “They knew we didn’t have any. We never had any. It was just to make people afraid, to let you know that you were being watched.”

Following the outbreak of violence, Soroka’s first instinct was to help raise money to support injured Ukrainians. But she quickly realized that her talents as a musician gave her a special means to attract public attention to Ukraine. It was, after all, a project that she and her American husband, pianist Arthur Greene, have been undertaking for several years.

Among the eight CDs Soroka has recorded, four are on the Toccata Classics label. The label was founded in London in 2005 by music journalist Martin Anderson to record and promote, in one critic’s words, “forgotten music by great composers [and] great music by forgotten composers.” In 2012, Soroka and Greene recorded music for violin and piano by Myroslav Skoryk, the most famous living Ukrainian composer who, like Soroka, was born in Lviv, but who grew up in Siberia, where his family, like Soroka’s grandfather, had been exiled by the Soviets.

This year, Soroka and Greene recorded a CD of music by 19th-century Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. Lysenko was also an ethnomusicologist, and his goal was to create music that was authentically Ukrainian, rather than mimic other European composers. In Soroka’s view, Lysenko is among the most important classical composers of the 19th century, but never recorded in the West, due to Russian, and later, Soviet, domination of Ukraine’s cultural resources.

Soroka and Greene were recording Lysenko’s music in February, right as the worst violence up until that time was taking place. “I thought it would be so great if along with somehow helping, I could also introduce Ukrainian music to American people,” she says.

Soroka and Greene created an all-Ukrainian program and performed for audiences in Goshen, Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Toronto last spring before heading to Ukraine for the summer.

“It was really a magical evening,” says Beverly Lapp, chair of Goshen College’s music department, about the performance at the college in March. Although Goshen, a town of only about 30,000 people, boasts a community of several hundred Ukrainians, the concert drew a cross section of the town, according to Lapp.

“It was a packed house. Solomia spoke so beautifully about the composers,” Lapp says. “The music featured arrangements of folk songs that are so lyrical, romantic, and expressive, but also allow plenty of virtuosity.”

Audience members would be right to have high expectations. Soroka is a world-class violinist who thrived in Ukraine’s ultra- competitive classical music scene. She made her solo debut at the age of 10 with the Lviv Philharmonic; earned a graduate degree at Kiev Conservatory before enrolling at the Eastman School to earn a second degree, studying with Charles Castleman; and has won top prizes in prestigious international violin competitions in the former Soviet Union.

Arthur Greene is also distinguished, having racked up multiple international prizes in piano performance.

As emails poured in in the days and weeks that followed the performances, Soroka felt that what was most important was the interest in Ukraine that she’d provoked, and the connection she made. “I’m an American citizen now,” she says. “I like very much living in the United States, and for me, just connecting with other Americans, Americans who have no connection to Ukraine, was just so gratifying.”

Soroka sees connections in the beauty of the music and the beauty, as she sees it, of Ukrainians’ quest to maintain self-determination. “It’s tragic, it’s horrible what’s going on. But it’s also so romantic and so beautiful, because Ukraine is a very multinational country. There are Jews, Armenians, Georgians, Russians, Ukrainians. And suddenly all of them came to stand there for the better life that in the United States we take for granted.”

Four Decades Ago, Ed Gibson ’59 Set a Skylab Record

newsSPACE PORTRAIT: As a member of the crew of Skylab 3, Gibson (below) took one of the final spacewalks from the orbiting craft (above). (Photo: NASA)

It’s been 40 years since the third and final mission to Skylab, the nation’s first space station. Aboard Skylab 3 was NASA scientist-astronaut Ed Gibson ’59, who—along with fellow crew members Jerry Carr and Bill Pogue—set a then world record of 84 days in space. It remained a record in the United States for 21 years, until Norman Thagard spent 115 days on the Russian space station Mir.

news (Photo: NASA)

“Although it might not appear so, based on its metal internal surfaces, Skylab was a comfortable home for sure. I would’ve been content to live there for many years, if I had friends and family along . . . and maybe a good pizza delivery,” Gibson wrote last year in an essay published in a Skylab special issue of the journal Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, marking the November 1973 launch. The mission ended in February 1974.

During 1,214 orbits of Earth, the men covered 34.5 million miles. They took four space walks on the mission; Gibson participated in three. Skylab, which was launched in 1973, remained in orbit until 1979. Gibson left NASA in 1981.﻿

FRIENDS & FAMILY

Alumni Receive Recognition

Several alumni were honored this spring for their professional achievements and service to their fields.

alumni_honorsSamuel Hope ’67E (Photo: University Communications)

alumni_honorsJohn (Jack) Carmola ’77 (Photo: University Communications)

alumni_honorsColleen Wegman ’00S (MBA) (Photo: University Communications)

alumni_honorsRonald Fielding ’73 (MA) ’76S (MBA) (Photo: University Communications)

A noted composer and music educator along with leading executives in aerospace engineering, retail management, and financial services were honored by the University at regional events this spring. Part of a series of events throughout the year to recognize alumni for their career achievements and for their service to their alma mater, this spring’s ceremonies highlighted alumni from the Eastman School of Music, the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and the Simon Business School.

Eastman School of Music

Samuel Hope ’67E

Distinguished Alumni Award

Hope is the retired executive director of the National Association of Schools of Music, a national accrediting organization founded in 1924 by longtime Eastman leader Howard Hanson and other collegiate music leaders. He has also served as director of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the National Association of Schools of Theatre, and the National Association of Schools of Dance. The four independent organizations accredit more than 1,200 arts institutions and entities, primarily in higher education.

Hope received a bachelor’s degree in composition from Eastman, where he studied with Robert Gauldin, Louis Mennini, Burrill Phillips, Bernard Rogers, and Wayne Barlow, as well as with Nadia Boulanger in France. A noted composer, he has had his work performed by American orchestras, choirs, and chamber ensembles. He has also written and spoken widely on the arts, education, and evaluation.

Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

John (Jack) Carmola ’77

Distinguished Alumnus Award

A retired former segment president for Goodrich Corporation, and president of Aerospace Customers and Business Development for United Technologies, Carmola works with private equity companies. He graduated from Rochester with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering and a minor in geomechanics. He began his career with General Electric before joining Goodrich in 1996. There, he earned promotions to vice president and was elected an officer of the company before being named segment president in 2005.

Carmola serves on the Hajim Dean’s Advisory Committee and is a member of the George Eastman Circle, the University’s leadership annual giving society.

Simon Business School

Colleen Wegman ’00S (MBA)

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Wegman is president of Wegmans Food Markets Inc., an 83-store supermarket chain headquartered in Rochester. The company has built an international reputation for its overall excellence in quality, customer service, and variety, and for 17 consecutive years, it has been named to Fortune magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work for in America” including being ranked the top company in 2005.

Wegman received an MBA from Simon in 2000. Beginning her career with Wegmans in 1991, she became a senior vice president in 2001. In 2005, she was named president of the company by her grandfather, the late Robert Wegman. Since 2007, she has been a member of the Food Marketing Institute’s Board of Directors. Active in the United Way of Greater Rochester, Wegman chaired the 2010 campaign and chaired the organization’s Board of Directors in 2014.

Ronald Fielding ’73 (MA), ’76S (MBA)

Dean’s Medal

The retired chief strategist and senior vice president of the Rochester division of Oppenheimer Funds Inc., Fielding managed the company’s Rochester municipal and convertible bonds for more than 25 years. In 1980 he founded Fielding Management and The Rochester Funds, which he sold to Oppenheimer in 1995.

He earned a master’s degree in 1973, followed by an MBA from Simon three years later. Fielding has been a member of Simon’s Executive Advisory Committee since 2005, and he also serves on the Simon National Council and the Simon Campaign Committee. He established the Ronald H. Fielding Scholarship Fund in 1996 to provide support for Simon students. A 1995 recipient of the Simon Distinguished Alumnus Award, he is also a member of the George Eastman Circle, the University’s leadership annual giving society.﻿

FOOTBALL ALUMNI

Dinner with the Coach

coachTEAM SPIRIT (first row): Erv Chambliss ’76, Jim Juraska ’73, Phil Chrys ’75, Dave Cidale ’71, Lou Spiotti Jr. (assistant coach, 1971–72), Stark, Tony Cipolla ’78, Bill Hammond ’73, Jim Mazur ’78, Andy Fornarola ’78, Mike Garritano ’76, Mark McAnaney ’75, Brian Haegney ’78, Frank Perillo ’73; (second row): Jim Dunnigan ’73, Jim Jimenez ’75, Paul Macielak ’72, Rick Magere ’72, Dick Rasmussen ’72, Rick Basehore ’72, Mike Flanigan ’71, Greg Conrad ’72, Dave McNelis ’74, Dave Smith ’74, John Badowski ’77, Steve Sloan ’78, Denny Hennigan ’75, Quentin Call ’76; (third row): Joe Hymes ’75, Joe Novek ’73, Roger Watts ’72, Paul Caputo ’73, Ed Heffernan ’76, Kevin Maier ’78, Len Champion ’73, Don Barber ’78; (not pictured): Sam Guerrieri ’81. (Photo: Ria Tafani for Rochester Review)

A record number of former Yellowjacket football players took part in this spring’s annual “Dinner with the Coach” to honor Pat Stark, who coached the team from 1969 to 1983, and to renew their ties as classmates, teammates, and friends. Nearly 40 football alumni gathered at an East Rochester restaurant in April, coming from as far away as Los Angeles for the get-together.

A member of Rochester’s Athletics Hall of Fame, Stark led the Yellowjackets to 60 victories, including a 12-game winning streak that still stands as a program record for consecutive wins.﻿

ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS

Honoring ‘Mr. Bob’

volunteerDEDICATED SERVICE: Rochester City School No. 8 dedicated its library earlier this year in honor of Robert Williams ’59 (second from left). He was joined by Pat Coakley, the chair of Rochester Rotary’s School No. 8 scholarship committee, School No. 8 graduate Iniabasi Ikpot, John White, a past president of Rochester Rotary, and Iniabasi’s parents, Zacch and Nse Ikpot. (Photo: Special to Rochester Review)

For nearly 20 years, Robert Williams ’59 has been a regular presence at Roberto Clemente School No. 8 in the Rochester City School District. He’s so well-known as a volunteer and tutor that students affectionately refer to him as “Mr. Bob.”

In recognition of his commitment, the library at the school was dedicated in his honor earlier this year.

A member of the Rochester Rotary Club since 1974, Williams started working with the school when the Rochester group began an “Adopt-a-School” program 19 years ago. Since then, he’s been at the school nearly every day, supporting youngsters in their academic work. Most recently, he was a scholarship coach to Iniabasi Ikpot, a relationship that began when Iniabasi was in second grade at School No. 8 and continued through his senior year at McQuaid Jesuit High School.﻿

ALUMNI RELATIONS

Did You Know? . . . A Library Is at Your Fingertips

Maybe you want to be able to access news from papers and magazines around the world.

Or perhaps you want to start a business, but need to do in-depth market research.

Your ability to access information through the University Libraries doesn’t end when you graduate. As an alumnus, you can sign up for full, free access to some of the largest online databases of scholarly and magazine articles, news from trade publications, and newspapers from around the world.

The premium databases include:

JSTOR: Full-text scholarly articles from all disciplines, dating from the 19th century to the past five years. Subject areas include business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, population studies, and more.

Proquest Alumni Edition: Full-text articles on all topics, with a focus on business. Includes current and past issues of journals, magazines, newspapers, and trade publications; country and industry reports; and some market data.

Sage Journals: Full-text journals in a variety of disciplines, including current and past issues. Areas include business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine.

A University Net ID number is all you need to access the resources. You can get one by emailing alumni@rochester.edu with your name (include maiden name, if applicable), address, class year, and school. You’ll receive a one-time code and instructions for receiving the ID.﻿

SPECIAL SECTION

Celebrating Distinction

The University of Rochester Celebrates Faculty and Student Honors 2013-14.

The University of Rochester congratulates faculty and students who have earned national recognition and teaching awards during the past academic year.

National Faculty Awards

Able Muse Press

Poetry Book Award

Melissa Balmain,, Adjunct Instructor of English

Academy of Eating Disorders

Leadership Award

Richard Kreipe,, Dr. Elizabeth R. McAnarney Professor in Pediatrics Funded by Roger and Carolyn Friedlander

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Arts and Letters Award in Literature

James Longenbach,, Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Visionary

Timothy Quill,, Georgia and Thomas Gosnell Distinguished Professor in Palliative Care

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Fellow

Craig Sellers, Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellow

Karl Kieburtz, Robert J. Joynt Professor in Neurology; Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Xi-Cheng Zhang, M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics; Director, Institute of Optics

American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Graduate Nursing Admissions Professionals

Sandy J. Cody Service Award

Elaine Andolina, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing; Director of Admissions, School of Nursing

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages

Best Scholarly Translation Award

Kathleen Parthé, Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

American Council of Learned Societies

Fellowship

Shin-yi Chao, Associate Professor of Religion and Classics

John Osburg, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Holly Watkins, Associate Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music

Elya Zhang, Assistant Professor of History

American Geophysical Union

Fellow

Cindy Ebinger, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

American Mathematical Society

Fellow

Alex Iosevich, Professor of Mathematics

American Physical Society

Fellow

Suxing Hu, Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

American Political Science Association

Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for Best Book in Legislative Politics

Lynda Powell, Professor of Political Science

American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

Outstanding Research Career Achievement Award

Sheree Toth, Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology; Executive Director, Mt. Hope Family Center

American Psychological Association

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award

Richard Aslin, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

American Public Health Association

Arthur J. Viseltear Award

Theodore Brown, Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Health and Policy

Association for Computing Machinery

Fellow

Henry Kautz, Chair and Professor of Computer Science

Association for Humanistic Counseling

Lifetime Achievement Award

Howard Kirschenbaum, Professor Emeritus, Warner School of Education

Association of Women in Mathematics

Ruth Michler Memorial Prize

Sema Salur, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses

March of Dimes Comerford Freda “Saving Babies, Together” Award

Susan Groth, Associate Professor, School of Nursing

Associations de Prévoyance Santé

Allianz Longevity Research Prize

Vera Gorbunova, Professor of Biology

Biomedical Engineering Society

Distinguished Service Award

Richard Waugh, Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award

Ben Hayden, Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

Daniel Weix, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Consumer Electronics Association

Inductee, Hall of Fame

Ching Tang, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Council of Academic Family Medicine

Chair

Thomas Campbell, William Rocktaschel Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine

Eduard Rhein Foundation

Eduard Rhein Award

Ching Tang, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Foundation for High Energy Accelerator Science

Suwa Prize

Kevin McFarland, Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Fulbright Program

Fellowship

Cindy Ebinger, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors

Leadership Award

David Meyerhofer, Deputy Director, Laboratory for Laser Energetics; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy

International Book Industry’s Excellence Awards

Literary Translation Initiative Award

University of Rochester’s Best Translated Book Award, , launched by Three Percent

International College of Dentists

Honorary Fellow

Aliakbar Bahreman, Clinical Professor, Eastman Institute for Oral Health

International Economics and Finance Society

Distinguished Fellow

Ronald Jones, Xerox Professor of Economics

International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves

Kenneth J. Button Prize

Xi-Cheng Zhang, M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics; Director, Institute of Optics

Ching Tang, Professor of Chemical Engineering

International Society for Self and Identity

Lifetime Career Award

Edward Deci, Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences

Richard Ryan, Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Young Scientist Prize in Quantum Electronics

Nick Vamivakas, Assistant Professor of Optics

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Prince Hitachi Prize

Vera Gorbunova, Professor of Biology

Kavil Foundation

Fellow

Daniel Weix, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Faculty Fellow

Logan Hazen, Assistant Professor, Warner School of Education

National Academies of Practice

Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow

Tobie Olsan, Professor of Clinical Nursing

National Academy of Sciences

Member

David Williams, Dean for Research, Arts, Sciences & Engineering; William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics; Director, Center for Visual Science

National Association for Geriatric Education and National Association of Geriatric Education Centers

President

Thomas Caprio, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Dentistry

National Science Foundation

Career Award

Sina Ghaemmaghami, Assistant Professor of Biology

Faculty Early Career Development Program Grant

Qiang Lin, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Optics

New York Public Library

Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship

Kenneth Gross, Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor in English

Optical Society of America

David Richardson Medal

Jannick Rolland, Brian J. Thompson Professor in Optical Engineering; Director, Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering

Fellows

Chunlei Guo, Professor of Optics

Jonathan Zuegel, Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Orthopaedic Research Society

Distinguished Investigator Award

Regis O’Keefe, Marjorie Strong Wehle Professor in Orthopaedics; Chair of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

Packard Foundation

Fellow

Vasilii Petrenko, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Percussive Arts Society

Lifetime Achievement in Education Award

Ruth Cahn, Jack Frank Instructor of Percussion, Eastman Community Music School

Poetry International

C. P. Cavafy Award

Jennifer Grotz, Associate Professor of English

Polish Physics Society

Marian Smoluchowski Medal

Douglas Cline, Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Royal Academy of Music

Honorary Member

Steven Doane, Professor of Violoncello

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Fellow

Robert McCann, Professor of Medicine; Chief of Medicine, Highland Hospital

Royal Institute of Philosophy

Honorary Professorship

Randall Curren, Professor of Philosophy and of Education

Sloan Consortium

Sloan-C Fellow

Eric Fredericksen, Visiting Assistant Professor, Warner School of Education

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Carol and Ed Diener Award in Personality Psychology

Andrew Elliott, Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

Curtis G. Hames Research Award

Kevin Fiscella, Professor of Family Medicine

SPIE—International Society for Optics and Photonics

Fellow

Xi-Cheng Zhang, M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics; Director, Institute of Optics

Robert Boyd, Professor of Optics and of Physics

Tetrahedron Publications

Young Investigator Award

Rudi Fasan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Triological Society

Career Scientist Award

Benjamin Crane, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology

University of Northern Colorado

Distinguished Alumnus of the Year (2013)

Richard Killmer, Professor of Oboe

Vision Sciences Society

Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award

Duje Tadin, Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Wellesley College

Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship

Joel Burges, Assistant Professor of English

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Fellow

Jack Werren, Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor in Biology

Faculty Teaching Awards

Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

William Marvin, Associate Professor of Music Theory

Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching (2012–13)

Chien-Kwan Lin, Associate Professor of Saxophone

G. Graydon Curtis ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching

Elizabeth Colantoni, Assistant Professor of Religion and Classics

Vasilii Petrenko, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Goergen Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Bonnie Meguid, Associate Professor of Political Science

Anne Meredith, Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion and Classics

John Michael, Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies

Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate Education

Douglas Turner, Professor of Chemistry

William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Eric Phizicky, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

National Student Awards

Academic All-American Honors

CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America Team

Lauren Bailey ’16, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering; At-Large (Second Team)

Alex Swanger ’15, Penfield, N.Y.; Economics; Men’s Soccer (Second Team)

All-American Honors

Lauren Bailey ’16, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering; Swimming (Honorable Mention)

Neil Cordell ’16, York, UK; Political Science; Squash (First Team)

Tayler Fravel ’14, Sandy Creek, N.Y.; Psychology; Softball (Third Team)

Keith Grafmeyer ’15, North Royalton, Ohio; Biomedical Engineering; Men’s Soccer (Second Team)

Ryosei Kobayashi ’17, Yokohamashi, Japan; Business; Squash (First Team)

Nina Korn ’14, Greece, N.Y.; Studio Arts; Softball (First Team)

Vicky Luan ’16, Surrey, British Columbia; Film and Media Studies; Swimming (Honorable Mention)

Karen Meess ’14, Hamburg, N.Y.; Biomedical Engineering; Swimming (Honorable Mention)

Danielle Neu ’17, Hammondsport, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering; Diving (Honorable Mention)

Nicholas Palladino ’14, Highland Heights, Ohio; Psychology; Golf (First Team)

Emily Simon ’17, Olean, N.Y.; Biology; Swimming (Honorable Mention)

Khamai Simpson ’16, Cutler Bay, Fla.; Health, Behavior, and Society; Swimming (Honorable Mention)

Alex Swanger ’15, Penfield, N.Y.; Economics; Men’s Soccer (Third Team)

Mario Yanez Tapia ’17, Aguascalientes, Mexico; Business; Squash (First Team)

Alex Veech ’17, Binghamton, N.Y.; Psychology; Swimming (Honorable Mention)

Emily Widra ’15, Washington, D.C.; English and Anthropology; Rowing (Second Team)

Aetna Foundation/National Healthcare Leadership Program

David Paul, Doctoral Student, School of Medicine and Dentistry

Alpha Omega Alpha

Carolyn Kuckein Research Fellowship

Corey Walker ’14M (MD)

American Association of Neurologic Surgeons

Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation Summer Fellowship

Joshua Haswell ’17M (MD)

American Council of Engineering Companies of New York

Scholarship

Koji Muto ’15, Hamden, Conn.; Mechanical Engineering

American Council of Teachers of Russian

National Postsecondary Essay Contest, Gold Medal

Oleg Didovets ’14, Webster, N.Y.; Chemistry

American Federation for Aging Research

Medical Student Training in Aging Research Award

Andrew Portuguese ’17M (MD)

Erica Lash ’17M (MD)

American Psychiatric Nurses Association

Student Scholarship

Jennifer Schneider, Graduate Student, School of Nursing

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

Morton Gould Young Composer Award

Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music

John Liberatore, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music

American Society of Hematology

Minority Medical Student Award

Physician-Researcher Initiative Fellow

Lauren Patrick ’16M (MD)

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies

Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Iskandar Zulkarnain, Graduate Student, Visual and Cultural Studies

Association of Counselor Education and Supervision

Emerging Leaders Fellow

Atiya Smith, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education

Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts

Young Composer’s Competition

Christopher Chandler, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music

DAAD-RISE (German Academic Exchange Service-Research Internships in Science and Engineering)

Corey Garyn ’15, Newtown, Pa.; Cell and Developmental Biology

Austin Mottola ’15, Katonah, N.Y.; Biochemistry

Seth Schober ’16, Sutton, Alaska; Electrical and Computer Engineering

Natalie Tjota ’16, Federal Way, Wash.; Biomedical Engineering

Steven Torrisi ’16, Tivoli, N.Y.; Physics

Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship

John Dawson ’13, ’14 (T5), Pittsford, N.Y.; Molecular Genetics

Katherine Wegman ’15, Pittsford, N.Y.; Anthropology/Biology

Downbeat Student Music Awards

Large Jazz Ensemble, Outstanding Undergraduate College Performance

Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble

Original Composition for Large Ensemble, Graduate College (for “West Point”)

Michael Conrad ’13E (MM) , Graduate Student, Eastman School of Music

Graduate Study Grant

Aku Antikainen, Doctoral Student, Optics

Scholarship

Savannah Benton ’14, Los Angeles; International Relations

Anisha Gundewar ’14, Marlborough, Mass.; Health, Behavior, and Society

Phil Pierick, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music; Saxophone

Shyam Venkateswaran ’14, Manhasset Hills, N.Y.; Biology

Simone Zehren ’14, Washington, D.C.; Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures

Alternates

Mandy Brefo ’14, Arlington, Texas; Anthropology and Political Science

Nicholas Giangreco ’14, Williamsville, N.Y.; Biochemistry

Leah Schwartz ’17, Cranford, N.J.; Anthropology

Honorable Mention

Molly Finn ’16, Marshalltown, Iowa; Physics and Astronomy

Brian McDonald ’16, Carmel, Ind.; Mathematics

Finalist

Catherine Lambert ’13, ’14 (T5), Elmira, N.Y.; Geological Sciences and English

Research and Mentorship Program Scholar

Oluchi Iheagwara ’17M (MD)

Summer Medical Fellow

James Bates ’15M (MD)

Medical Research Fellow at Janelia

Benjamin Cocanougher ’15M (MD)

Year Fellows Program

Jeffrey Zimering ’16M (MD)

Humanity in Action

Fellowship

Lendsey Achudi ’14, Maseno, Kenya; International Relations

Jonathan Johnson ’14, Crystal River, Fla.; Anthropology and Political Science

IBM

PhD Fellowship

Xiaochen Guo, Doctoral Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Iberdrola USA Foundation

Energy and Environment Scholarship

Samuel Steven, Graduate Student, Optics and Technical Entrepreneurship and Management

Samuel Sowden Garcia, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering

Jose Alberto Medina Jimena, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering

Fellowship

Chantal Gaudet ’14, Bedford, N.H.; Chemical Engineering

Scholarship Plus Initiative award

Jeremy Warner ’15, Riverhead, N.Y.; Electrical and Computer Engineering

Semifinalist

Quarterfinals Award for Outstanding Arrangement

Semifinals Award for Outstanding Choreography

YellowJackets

Quarterfinals Award for Outstanding Arrangement

Tom Downey ’16, Midnight Ramblers; Selkirk, N.Y.; Environmental Sciences

Gilman International Scholarship

Jasré Ellis ’15, Raleigh, N.C.; Japanese and Psychology

Johnson Truong ’15, Rochester; Chemistry

Breanna Madrazo ’15, Torrance, Calif.; Financial Economics

Jenny Quintero ’16, Houston; Biomedical Engineering

Catherine Sbeglia ’15, Sunnyside, N.Y.; English and Film and Media Studies

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Graduate Arts Award Recipient

Erika Pinkerton, Graduate Student, Eastman School of Music

Jazz Education Network Conference

Mary Jo Papich Cofounder Women in Jazz Scholarship

Alexa Tarantino ’14E, West Hartford, Conn.; Jazz Saxophone

Kelly Services

Kelly Future Engineers Scholarship

Koji Muto ’15, Hamden, Conn.; Mechanical Engineering

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers

KPCB Engineering Fellow

Dan Hassin ’16, Millburn, N.J.; Computer Science

Meg Quigley Vilvalde Competition and Bassoon Symposium

First Place

Ivy Ringel ’16E, Hillsborough, N.C.; Bassoon

MTNA National Performance Competitions

First Place, Chamber Music Wind

Finja Quartet

Ainsley Kilgo ’15E, Fairfax, Va.; Alto Saxophone

Daniel Stenziano ’15E, Wayland, N.Y.; Baritone Saxophone

Tyler Wiessner ’15E, Ellicott City, Md.; Tenor Saxophone

Kevin Zhao ’15E, Beijing; Soprano Saxophone

First Place, Piano Senior Performance

Yiou Li ’17E, Nanyang, China; Piano

Third Place, Piano Young Artist Performance

Thomas Steigerwald ’15E, Uvalde, Texas; Piano

NASA

Space Technology Research Fellowship

Alex Iaccetta, Doctoral Student, Optics

National Health Service Corps

Scholarship

Jared Lunkenheimer ’14M (MD)

National Hispanic Health Foundation

Student Scholarship Program

Nallely Saldana-Ruiz ’15M (MD)

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Summer Fellowship

Sarah Ackroyd ’16M (MD)

Medical Student Research Award

Pooja Prasad ’17M (MD)

National Institute of Mental Health

F30 Fellowship

Daniel Marker, Doctoral Student, School of Medicine and Dentistry

Medical Research

Michael Feldman ’15M (MD)

Medical Students’ Sustained Training and Research Experience in Aging and Mental Health

Nicholas David ’17M (MD)

National Science Foundation

East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship

Daniel Marnell, Doctoral Student, Biomedical Engineering

National Science Foundation Research Fellowship

Amanda Chen ’14, Danville, Calif.; Biomedical Engineering

Graduate Research Fellowship

Alyssa Kersey, Graduate Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Sarah Koopman, Graduate Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Nicole Peltier, Graduate Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Alena Stasenko, Graduate Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

National Trumpet Competition

BlackBurn Trumpets Graduate Division, First Place

James Peyden Shelton, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music

First Prize

Myles Boothroyd, Graduate Student, Eastman School of Music

Third Prize

Jonathan Wintringham, Graduate Student, Eastman School of Music

First Prize

Da Sol Jeong ’14E, Thornhill, Ontario; Violin

Markiyan Melnychenko, Graduate Student, Eastman School of Music

Orthopaedic Video Competition, 1st place (2013), 2nd place (2014)

Youssef Farhat, MD/PhD Student

Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Fellow

Ryaan Ahmed, Graduate Student, Eastman School of Music

Percussive Arts Society International Convention

Percussion Ensemble Competition Winner

Eastman Percussion Ensemble

Rotary International

Global Grant Scholar

Jordan Shapiro ’14, Bennington, Vt.; International Relations and History

Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration

Dissertation Award

Deborah Hudson, Doctoral Student, Warner School of Education

U.S. State Department

Critical Language Scholarship

Daniel Webb ’14, Lexington, Ky.; Spanish and Russian

Westfield International Organ Competition

First Prize

Malcolm Matthews, Graduate Student, Eastman School of Music

Whitaker Foundation International Program

Scholarship Grant

Echoe Bouta, Doctoral Student, Biomedical Engineering

Jason Inzana, Doctoral Student, Biomedical Engineering

Amanda Chen ’14, Danville, Calif.; Biomedical Engineering

Student Teaching Awards

Edward Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching By a Graduate Student

Matt Bayne, Doctoral Student, English

David de Jong, Doctoral Student, Psychology

Meredith Martin, Doctoral Student, Psychology

Fred Moolekamp, Doctoral Student, Physics

Sarah Fuchs Sampson, Doctoral Student, Eastman School of Music

William Spaniel, Doctoral Student, Political Science

Nikolaus Wasmoen, Doctoral Student, English﻿

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Every academic year, Rochester faculty members earn recognition from their national and international colleagues for their research, scholarship, and teaching, as well as for their service to their disciplines and their students. Those honors include awards from national and international academic societies, induction into prestigious organizations, and recognition from peer institutions. Similarly, Rochester students are recognized each year by some of the most competitive and highly regarded honors programs available to undergraduates and graduate students in the United States. Here’s a small selection of honorees from the 2013–14 year.﻿

National Academy of Sciences

David Williams, the William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics, dean for research in Arts, Sciences & Engineering, and director of the Center for Visual Science, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on human vision, Williams has pioneered new technologies to improve eyesight for people who are legally blind as well as for those with 20/20 vision. One of the highest honors accorded a scientist in the United States, membership in the academy is based on outstanding research contributions as judged by peers in the field. Williams was one of 84 scientists selected for 2014. ﻿

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Xi-Cheng Zhang, the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics and director of the Institute of Optics, and Karl Kieburtz, the Robert J. Joynt Professor in Neurology and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Recognized for his research on the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum, Zhang also received the Kenneth J. Button Prize from the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves. An expert on neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, Kieburtz has served as principal investigator for several clinical studies. ﻿

American Geophysical Union

Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences, was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Ebinger’s field research and other studies on the interaction of tectonic plates has helped shape the understanding of continental rifts, volcanic activity, earthquakes, and other geological processes.﻿

Association For Computing Machinery

Henry Kautz, professor and chair of computer science, was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, one of the world’s most prominent scientific and educational organizations dedicated to computing. The first director of the University’s Institute for Data Science, Kautz is a leading researcher on machine learning, pervasive computing, search algorithms, and assistive technology. He is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.﻿

International Society for Self and Identity

Richard Ryan, professor of clinical and social sciences in psychology, and Edward Deci, the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor in the Social Sciences, received the Lifetime Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity. In their 1985 work, Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior, Deci and Ryan articulated what has become known as self-determination theory, which has since become one of the leading theories of human motivation. The theory has helped shape three decades of clinical and research efforts to advance health, spirituality, peace, and human fulfillment.﻿

Optical Society of America

Jannick Rolland, the Brian J. Thompson Professor in Optical Engineering, received the David Richardson Medal from the Optical Society of America, an award that recognizes significant contributions to optical engineering. Rolland, director of the Hopkins Center for Optical Engineering and Design and the Center for Freeform Optics at Rochester, was cited for her research in optical design and engineering, including work that may lead to new, noninvasive technologies for conducting biopsies as a way to detect skin cancer.﻿

Packard Foundation

Vasilii Petrenko, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, received a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. He was one of just 16 scientists selected for the fellowship that was established to allow some of the nation’s most promising scientists to pursue science and engineering research early in their careers. He also received the University’s G. Graydon Curtis ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching this spring.﻿

Poetry International

Jennifer Grotz, associate professor of English, received the C. P. Cavafy Award, an annual prize administered by the editorial staff of the journal Poetry International. A cowinner of the award, Grotz was cited for her poem “Watchmaker,” part of her forthcoming collection, The Window Left Open. A poet whose work has been anthologized in recent volumes of the Best American Poetry series (Scribner), Grotz is also assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vt.﻿

Royal Academy of Music

Steven Doane, professor of violoncello at the Eastman School, was named an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. Founded in 1822, the academy is now a college of the University of London, where Doane was also appointed a visiting professor of strings. The academy limits honorary membership to 300 musicians from around the world who did not attend the academy as students. ﻿

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Robert McCann, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry and chief of medicine at Highland Hospital, was named a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Granted a royal charter in 1681, the college is an independent standard-setting body and professional membership organization whose fellows and members represent 91 countries. Fellows are elected based on their contributions to the practice of medicine, medical science, and medical literature.﻿

Royal Institute of Philosophy

Randall Curren, professor of philosophy in Arts, Sciences & Engineering and professor of educational leadership at the Warner School, was named to an honorary professorship at the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London, the first in the institution’s 87-year history. A noted scholar of Aristotelean ethics, Curren also was appointed to a research professorship in moral and virtue education at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values at the University of Birmingham in England.﻿

Humanity in Action

Lendsey Achudi ’14, an international relations major from Maseno, Kenya, and Jonathan Johnson ’14, an anthropology and political science major from Crystal River, Fla., were selected for a fellowship program by the international education organization Humanity in Action. The fellowship is designed to bring together international groups of students and recent graduates to explore the social and political roots of discrimination. ﻿

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Erika Pinkerton, a master’s student at the Eastman School, received a Graduate Arts Award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. A violin student in the studio of Juliana Athayde, associate professor of violin, Pinkerton was one of 20 honorees from across the country who were recognized for academic achievement and artistic promise.﻿

MTNA National Performance Competitions

Finja Quartet—a saxophone ensemble featuring Daniel Stenziano ’15E (baritone); Tyler Wiessner ’15E (tenor); Ainsley Kilgo ’15E (alto); and Kevin Zhao ’15E (soprano)—won first place in the Chamber Music Wind category at the National Performance Competitions of the Music Teachers National Association. The students are members of the studio of Chien-Kwan Lin, associate professor of saxophone. Also at the competitions, pianist Yiou Li ’17E won first place in the Piano Senior Performance category and pianist Thomas Steigerwald ’15E placed third in the Young Artist Performance category.﻿

National Science Foundation

Amanda Chen ’14, a biomedical engineering major from Danville, Calif., received a National Science Foundation Research Fellowship. She also received a scholarship from the Whitaker Foundation’s international program to conduct graduate study at the University of Cambridge. She plans to pursue a doctorate at MIT in fall 2015.﻿

Commencement Honorees 2014

commencement_honoreesCOMMENCEMENT MOMENT: President Joel Seligman (left to right), Ed Hajim ’58, chairman of the Board of Trustees, and honorary degree recipients Chris Matthews and Barry Meyer ’64 welcomed the graduating class at the start of the procession. (Photo: Adam Fenster)

The University recognized alumni, faculty, and special guests at this spring’s commencement ceremonies. Recognized for their teaching, scholarship, achievements, and service were:

Arts, Sciences & Engineering

G. Graydon Curtis ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Nontenured Faculty Teaching Excellence

Elizabeth Colantoni, Assistant professor of religion and classics

Vasilii Petrenko, Assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences

Honorary Doctor of Laws

Barry Meyer ’64, Former chairman, Warner Bros. Entertainment

Honorary Doctor of Letters

Chris Matthews, MSNBC political analyst and author

Doctoral Ceremony

William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Eric Phizicky, Professor of biochemistry and biophysics

Lifetime Achievement in Graduate Education

Douglas Turner, Professor of chemistry

Rochester Distinguished Scholar Medal

Yuh-geng Tsay ’77, (PhD), Founder, Diagnostic Reagents

Eastman School

Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

William Marvin ’02E (PhD), Associate professor of music theory

School of Nursing

Charles Force Hutchison and Marjorie Smith Hutchison Medal

Harriet Kitzman ’61W (MS), ’84N (PhD), Professor of nursing and pediatrics and senior associate dean for research

Simon Business School

Charles Force Hutchison and Marjorie Smith Hutchison Medal

Robert Rich ’69S (MBA), Chairman, Rich Products Corp.

Books & Recordings

Books

Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution

By Thomas Slaughter

Hill and Wang, 2014

Drawing from a half-century of scholarship, Slaughter, the Arthur R. Miller Professor of History at Rochester, offers an up-to-date synthesis on the causes of the American Revolution.

Bluff City Pawn

By Stephen Schottenfeld

Bloomsbury, 2014

Schottenfeld, the James P. Wilmot Assistant Professor of English at Rochester, presents his debut novel, a story of a Memphis, Tenn., pawnbroker facing an increasingly distressed clientele and multiple challenges in his relationships with his family.

Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C.

Photographs by Robert Mumford ’57

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

Wildlife photographer Mumford presents 97 full-color photographs displaying the biodiversity in natural and built spaces around the nation’s capital. The text is by natural history writer Howard Youth.

Bonnets to Boardrooms: Women’s Stories from a Historic College Town

Edited by Eugenia Poporad Vanek ’74W (EdD)

Oberlin Heritage Center, 2014

Vanek compiles and edits a collection of oral histories from 52 women graduates of Oberlin College. The women, all born between the years 1895 and 1959, reflect on economic and social conditions, experiences, and opportunities that changed women’s roles in the family, community, and society in the 20th century.

Change and Conflict in the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Since 1945

By Anne Loveland ’60

University of Tennessee Press, 2014

Loveland, the T. H. Williams Professor Emerita at Louisiana State University, explores the challenges U.S. Army chaplains faced during a time of turbulence in American religious and military culture.

The Law of Higher Education (Fifth Edition)

By William Kaplin ’64 and Barbara Lee

Wiley, 2013

Kaplin, professor of law emeritus at Catholic University, coauthors the latest edition of a two- volume reference, research, and practical guide to law for college and university administrators, campus attorneys, legal counsel, and institutional researchers.

Psalms and Music: Influences of the Psalms on Western Music

By Max Stern ’69E

KTAV Publishing House, 2013

Stern, professor of music at Ariel University in Israel, examines “the reciprocal influences of Psalms on music and music on Psalms” in a range of historical eras, contexts, musical styles, and performance settings.

A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864

By Robert McCaughey ’61

Columbia University Press, 2014

McCaughey chronicles Columbia’s 150-year-old engineering school from its early striving “to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences” to its role in “the wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.” McCaughey is a professor of history and the Janet H. Robb Chair in the Social Sciences at Barnard College, a division of Columbia.

‘Re-Membering’ History in Student and Teacher Learning: An Afrocentric Culturally Informed Praxis

By Joyce King and Ellen Swartz ’96W (PhD)

Routledge, 2014

Swartz, a curriculum development consultant, coauthors a series of case studies demonstrating an alternative approach to teaching history to African-American students in which students “engage in conscious inquiry about their shared present as a continuance of a shared past.”

The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions That Will Define Your Company

By Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine ’01S (PhD)

Harvard Business Review Press, 2014

Netessine, the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at the Singapore campus of the French business institute INSEAD, clarifies the key choices that business leaders make in dealing with risk in designing their business models.

Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study

By Dariusz Terefenko ’98E (MM), ’04E (PhD)

Routledge, 2014

Terefenko, associate professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School, offers a comprehensive textbook for jazz theory courses as well as for independent learners.

Strangers in Paradise: How Families Adapt to Wealth Across Generations

By James Grubman ’74

FamilyWealth Consulting, 2013

Grubman, a wealth psychologist and principal at FamilyWealth Consulting in western Massachusetts, offers advice for individuals and families adjusting to newfound wealth.

Letters from Italy

By Diane Seufert Tait ’69E

Piquant Press, 2012

Through diary entries and letters, violinist Tait chronicles the year that she, her husband, and their two children spent in Italy, as her husband, double bassist Edward Tait, pursued his dream of study with Francesco Petracchi.

Deep Blue

By Jennifer Donnelly ’85

Disney-Hyperion Press, 2014

Donnelly presents her fifth novel for young adult readers, and the first in a new fantasy series “about six teenage mermaids who unite to save their underwater world from an ancient evil.”

Barry Baskerville Returns

By Richard Kellogg ’70W (EdD)

Airship 27, 2014

Through the story of a young detective who solves the mystery of the stolen car keys, Kellogg, professor emeritus of psychology at Alfred State College, introduces children to the methods of observation and deduction made famous by Arthur Conan Doyle through the character of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrations are by artist Gary Kato.

Abraham in the Works of John Chrysostom

By Demetrios Tonias ’86

Fortress Press, 2014

Tonias, pastor at Taxiarchae/Archangels Greek Orthodox Church in Watertown, Mass., examines the views of the fourth-century archbishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom, on the patriarch Abraham.

Diary of the Dumped

By Alexsandra Sukhoy ’03S (MBA)

CreateSpace, 2014

Sukhoy presents her fourth book, in which “a modern woman receives a break-up text from her boyfriend. Devastated, she keeps a diary for the next 30 days, excavating her entire buried personal life.”

From Seeker to Finder: Discovering Everyday Happiness

By George Kimeldorf ’61

Newlog Publishing, 2014

Kimeldorf, a retired professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas, relays his long search for happiness. He argues that “learning to be happy is not mystical, mysterious, or magical,” but instead, “an ordinary skill that anybody can learn and master through practice.”

From Chaos to Order

By Tamar Lubin Saposhnik ’79W (EdD)

Tamar Lubin Saposhnik, 2014

Saposhnik tells the story of her efforts as the head of a Hebrew day school in Las Vegas to turn an almost-bankrupt school into the successful, college preparatory Hebrew Academy Day School.

Recordings

Going Away: Violin Works by Emma Lou Diemer

By Emma Lou Diemer ’49E (MM), ’60E (PhD)

True Tone Productions, 2014

Composer Diemer offers the title composition, a violin concerto, and other selections. Philip Ficsor plays violin and Diemer accompanies on piano. Diemer has released two other recordings, Attracting Opposites: New Music for Piano Trio (Azica Records), and Emma Lou Diemer: Chamber Works (Albany Records).

Something Wicked: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

By Kyle Newmaster ’01E (MM)

Lakeshore Records, 2014

Newmaster, a composer for television, film, and gaming, has written the music for the motion picture Something Wicked.

Ten

By Break of Reality

Break of Reality, 2014

The cello-rock band formed at the Eastman School commemorates its first 10 years with its fourth CD. The group includes founding members Ivan Trevino ’06E, ’10E (MM) (percussion) and Patrick Laird ’07E (cello), as well as cellists Laura Metcalf and Adrian Daurov.

Greetings from Argentina! Vol. 1

By the Dallas Chamber Players

Dallas Chamber Players, 2013

The Dallas Chamber Players, consisting of pianist Gustavo Tolosa ’97E (DMA), cellist Heather Moncrief Rivera-Torres ’97E, and violinst Inga Kroll, presents music from Argentina. Tapestries By Dan Locklair ’81E (DMA) MSR Classics, 2014 The two-CD set consists of choral music by Locklair, composer-in-residence and professor of music at Wake Forest University. Music is performed by the Choral Art Society, conducted by Robert Russell, and the Bel Canto Company, led by David Pegg.

Books & Recordings is a compilation of recent work by University alumni, faculty, and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming issue, send the work’s title, publisher, author, or performer, a brief description, and a high-resolution cover image, to Books & Recordings, Rochester Review, 22 Wallis Hall, P. O. Box 270044, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or by e-mail to rochrev@rochester.edu.

Immigrants to the Land of Wealth

When someone acquires wealth, what changes? Quite a bit, says wealth psychologist Jim Grubman ’74.

Interview by Karen McCally ’02 (PhD)

Most people don’t know that the field of wealth psychology exists, but it’s a whole movement happening within financial services. It started about 20 years ago before the dot com boom. As a wealth psychologist I do training and consulting for financial firms to help them understand how to listen and how to understand the family problems that their clients have.

Most people think of becoming wealthy as the end point. They don’t think about what happens after that. To use a metaphor, it’s as if people migrate to the land of wealth, and all they think about is getting to the shores. They don’t think about what happens when you start living in the land.

(Illustration: David Cowles for Rochester Review)

Acquiring wealth is like being a first- generation immigrant. Malcolm Gladwell interviewed me for his book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. Gladwell cites my metaphor of immigrants to the land of wealth, and quotes me explaining some of the stresses between immigrants to wealth and their children.

Parents are usually unprepared for how their parenting needs to change when they acquire wealth. Many parents are unprepared for having to switch from “No, we can’t” to “No, we won’t.”

Jim Grubman ’74

Home: Turners Falls, Mass.

Occupation: Wealth psychologist at FamilyWealth Consulting; author of Strangers in Paradise: How Families Adapt to Wealth Across Generations

On getting his start at Rochester: “I worked in the Medical Center’s primate lab on a marijuana project. I was really focused on psychopharmacology and behavioral pharmacology. It was the early 1970s and there was, shall we say, widespread interest in how recreational drugs performed their actions in the body.”

Friends can also migrate to different economic cultures. If you and I start off in the same culture, and I go one way, and you go another way, the gap between the worlds we live in gets larger. It takes skills to manage the relationship, and what it comes back to is communication. I might say, “I would love to go to dinner with you, but I can’t afford to go where you’re used to.” And if you said, “That’s OK, I just want to spend time with you. We can go somewhere that fits us both,” then you and I have worked things out because we’ve communicated about it.

The general public believes that people who suddenly acquire wealth go off the deep end with greed or extravagance. A much less well-known but possibly more prevalent response is that many people actually hunker down and avoid dealing with the wealth. They avoid letting anybody know that they have the wealth, and they try to continue living a middle class life, avoiding talking about, showing, or even telling their children about it. On the surface that sounds like that might not be such a bad strategy. But it doesn’t prepare the family or the children to handle the wealth that then comes to them later.

In middle class society, it’s considered impolite to talk about money. Since 80 percent of the wealthy come out of the middle class or working class, they carry that attitude with them. What happens is, again, the family is unprepared. We know that about a third of families communicate about money, and teach children about money. Those families do much better.

Values and skills are the biggest determinants of how successful families are with money. Many people don’t have the skills for managing a significant amount of money. There are some very practical wealth management skills needed, such as how to work with advisors in an effective way, and how to choose an advisor who’s going to be trustworthy, competent, and ethical.

COMMENCEMENT

Heroes in Disguise

spiderman (Photo: Adam Fenster)

Spidey Sensibilities: “There’s a little Spider-Man in all of us,” noted Jamal Rossi, the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music, as he urged Eastman’s graduates to challenge themselves as artists and members of their communities. The reference struck a chord with Eastman students because parts of the movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2 were filmed along East Main Street and used the facades of Eastman Theatre and the Eastman East Wing as backdrops.