Representation matters
For Travon Walker ’21E—an aspiring opera singer and dual major in vocal performance and arts leadership at the Eastman School...
Karen Chance Mercurius named associate vice president for alumni and constituent relations
Karen Chance Mercurius, PhD, the current director of alumni relations at Harvard Law School, has been selected to lead the...
Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education: Did We Learn the Wrong Lesson?
In the early 1960s, Theresa Canada ’76, ’89W (EdD) was a student in elementary school in Central Harlem, where she...
A Mind for Sound
Kedar Shashidhar ’15, ’16 (KEY), one of Rochester’s first audio and music engineering graduates, is on the forefront of three-dimensional...
Teaching and Learning about American Indians
There’s a lot of debate in the country, and I think it’s getting especially heated now, about whose history is...
‘Closed Captioning For Personal Conversations’
When Brandon Isobe ’10 was growing up in Honolulu, his family used simplified speech so that Brandon’s father, Gerald, who...
Many roads to Italy
Dr. Arnold Lisio ’56, ’61M (MD) grew up hearing stories about Italy from his Italian father and Italian American mother....
Tiffany + Rochester: Forever Connected
Volunteering is a great way to give back. Tiffany Taylor Smith ’91 currently serves on Rochester’s Diversity Council, among other...
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...
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...