The staggering cost of being black in America
The premise isn’t new: engineer and business executive Shawn Rochester ’97, in a recent book, The Black Tax: The Cost...
Wise words on weight loss
Weight loss tips aren’t hard to find. But here are a few from the president of the Obesity Medicine Association....
Making physics less alpha
As a physics student in the 1970s, Barbara Whitten ’77 (PhD) often found herself one of the only women—if not...
Requiem for a civic monument
Chicago public housing and its troubles have been a journalistic focal point for decades, generating a slew of news coverage,...
Show Us Your Town: Boston
For all its storied history—the Freedom Trail, Bunker Hill, Walden Pond—Boston feels familiar and friendly, says Stephen Fantone ’79 (PhD),...
Systems and sensibility
After working in veterinary medicine for seven years, C. Mike Lindsey ’08, ’09 (T5) was looking for a way to...
Invested in law
Years ago, Diane Ambler ’71 started writing a memoir of sorts. Every chapter began with a quotation of something that...
A new generation in preservation
Caitlin Meives ’05 is such a preservationist that she recently found in her attic the Rochester history department flier that...
An operatic ‘trapeze artist’
Since 2011, a string of critically acclaimed appearances in the great opera houses of Vienna, Munich, and Paris have established...
The show goes on
Lusette (Andy) Smith ’72 first stepped onto a stage when she was 10 years old. Alice in Wonderland was the...