A Lifetime as a Leader Ruth Lawrence ’49M (MD) A trailblazing pediatrician, a Medical Center physician says she “hit the jackpot” in life. Ruth Lawrence...
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...
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...
How’s That Again? Rochester students acquire a specific lingo that becomes ingrained in their everyday conversations, and, eventually, the vocabulary becomes part of...
12 surprising facts about campus spaces Did you know there’s a wash tub hanging from the ceiling at Kodak Hall? Or that Frank Sinatra sang here...
Four years on campus, a lifetime of friendship For 62 years, about a dozen “City Girls” have been getting together just about every month. At first, they met...
U of R, U of R, ’68! While many of the historic events and cultural moments of 1968 continue to resonate in American social and political life,...
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,...
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...