Tribute: Richard Friedman ’66M (MD)
The driving forces for Richard Friedman ’66M (MD) were simple: ethics and science. “I felt an ethical obligation to find...
Goal Orientation
In November 2019, I qualified for the US Olympic Team Trials in the women’s marathon. I had a pretty short...
Alice Holloway Young ’57 (Mas), ’69W (EdD)
A groundbreaking educator in Rochester for more than 50 years, Alice Holloway Young ’57 (Mas), ’69W (EdD) received the New...
Those We Lost
Journalist. Pianist. Doctor. Candlemaker. Mother. Son. Daughter. Among the grim toll of the COVID-19 pandemic were several alumni from all...
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....
Protecting the Public
Tony Vargas experienced firsthand the tragedy of the pandemic last spring, as it ravaged the New York City region. His...
Central Park Hero
In addition to his role overseeing clinical research for emergency medicine for New York state’s largest health network, Timmy Li...
The Calming Commissioner
What the NIH’s Anthony Fauci has been to the nation, Mike Mendoza—or, @DrMikeMendoza on Twitter—has been to the Rochester area:...
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...
Meeting a Rising Need
When schools and day cares closed in New York state last March, it meant that thousands of children in the...