‘Community Hero’
From the pandemic front lines to Highland Hospital, Jose Perpignan, Jr. ’16N is still there for his neighbors and his...
Jazz Music Is Protest Music
Jazz was invented by Black artists in the late 1800s as a combination of harmony and rhythmic and soulful expression....
University Launches Three New Affinity Networks for Alumni and Friends
As part of the University’s Together for Rochester one-year fundraising and engagement campaign—and in response to growing interest from alumni...
Recent Graduate Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship
Next October, Beauclaire Mbanya Jr. ’20 will begin a two-year paid graduate program in engineering science as a Rhodes Scholar...
Representation matters
For Travon Walker ’21E—an aspiring opera singer and dual major in vocal performance and arts leadership at the Eastman School...
Monique Mendes ’18M (MS), ’20M (PhD)
Monique Mendes ’18M (MS), ’20M (PhD) moved from Kingston, Jamaica to South Florida, when she was a teenager. Her parents...
‘Everyone wins’
New programs offer COVID-19 pop-up, drive-through testing sites along with telehealth services to serve underrepresented communities....
Nine Ways to Decrease Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic
When Gina Cuyler, MD was two years old, her father died—an acute illness overtook him in days. Soon after his...
‘I Also Saw the Women Who Came Before Me’
Ileah Welch ’05 and former First Lady Michelle Obama have something in common: both have had portraits painted by Amy...
Show Us Your Town: Los Angeles
Famous for its embrace of dreamers and storytellers, the nation’s second largest metropolitan region is much more than palm trees...