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Close-up of a family at a dinner table featuring Hanukkah foods, including latkes and other signature fried cuisine.

Society & Culture

The stories behind Hanukkah’s signature fried foods

Hanukkah foods include latkes and fried jelly donuts. Professor Nora Rubel explains how such dishes carry meaning beyond the kitchen.

Illustration of a Human head covered by smoke from factory chimneys to illustrate how socially responsible investors may do more harm than good.

Society & Culture

When socially responsible investing backfires

A new study finds that investors may unintentionally give polluting companies a reason to delay going green.

A collage of students abroad: athletes at the seaside, a traveler in a city square, a teacher with children, a woman dining, volunteers building, and a hiker in the mountains.

Campus & Community

We are the world: URochester students learn, work, and research across the globe

From traditional study abroad to life-changing community service, the University offers an education abroad experience for virtually anyone.

Health & Medicine

Can lost vision be restored?

URochester researchers are at the forefront of improving eyesight while discovering how our visual system works.

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From the Magazine

The class that changed me: Curtis Stewart ’08, ’08E

The Grammy nominee recalls the violin lessons at Eastman that at once terrified and inspired him.

A teacher and three students wade in a creek as part of the curriculum at their rural schools in New York State.

Campus & Community

Transforming what’s possible for rural schools

How the Warner School’s wide-ranging programs are strengthening the educators, students, and communities at the heart of rural New York.

Two people in a warehouse packing up medications and devices that are the result of neurological drugs discovery by the Center for Health + Technology.

Health & Medicine

How URochester is reshaping clinical trials for brain and nerve diseases

The Center for Health + Technology has become a model for getting new treatments to patients faster and more equitably.

Science & Technology

Barry Silverstein ’84 to help lead the future of AR/VR at URochester

The former senior director and chief technology officer of optics and display in Meta’s Reality Labs will direct the Center for Extended Reality.

Jessica Wang and Sophie Black ’27 examine a bottle of LB media, the standard liquid containing all the necessary nutrients to support bacterial growth used to grow bacteria in the lab.

Campus & Community

URochester students engineer bacteria to build a future on Mars

Undergraduates turn Martian air into plastics and fertilizer—earning top honors internationally.

Maiken Nedergaard.

Maiken Nedergaard elected to the National Academy of Inventors

The honor recognizes Nedergaard’s groundbreaking research over the past decade, which has fundamentally reshaped basic neuroscience.

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Timothy McGeary named University of Rochester Librarian and Neilly Dean

McGeary will serve as the chief strategist and advocate for library services that support research, teaching, and student success across URochester.

portrait of Melissa Sturge-Apple

Melissa Sturge-Apple named dean of the Warner School of Education & Human Development

As interim dean, she has guided the school through a period of transition while building on the school’s strategic priorities and strong foundation.