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A digital audio workstation with a computer monitor running digital audio software, audio equipment, speakers, keyboards, and a guitar.
Campus & Community
October 29, 2026

Coursework: Exploring music through technology

When URochester music students trade reeds, strings, and sticks for software, a world of creative possibility emerges. 

When University of Rochester music students trade reeds, strings, and sticks for software, a world of creative possibility emerges. 
topics: alumni, Dennis DeSantis, Eastman School of Music, Rochester Review,
Composer Jeff Beal smiles while conducting, holding a baton in a black-and-white portrait.
Campus & Community
October 29, 2026

Life lessons with Jeff Beal

His journey from Eastman to the Emmy stage has taken him from coast to coast and across multiple musical boundaries.

Emmy Award–winning composer and Eastman School of Music alumnus Jeff Beal ’85E shares lessons from a career spanning multiple musical genres.
topics: alumni, Eastman School of Music, Rochester Review,
The face of a women wearing glasses bathed in blue and pink shadows and covered with binary code.
From the Magazine
October 29, 2026

The patient who could not die 

Associate Professor of Medicine Erika Ramsdale ’21 (MS) discusses what AI can—and can’t—teach doctors about connection.

University of Rochester associate professor of medicine Erika Ramsdale discusses what AI can—and can’t—teach doctors about connection.
topics: alumni, artificial intelligence, Erika Ramsdale, Medical Center, Rochester Review, Wilmot Cancer Institute,
Exterior of Taylor Hall on the University of Rochester campus.

Melissa Mead discusses the history of Taylor Hall on the River Campus.

University of Rochester archivist Melissa Mead discusses the history of Taylor Hall on URochester's River Campus.
topics: Rochester Review, University Libraries,
Seven University of Rochester faculty book covers arranged in a collage, featuring works on science, music, bees, immigration, adoption, and race.
From the Magazine
October 29, 2026

Faculty works: Fall 2026

Seven new books from URochester faculty span Beethoven, bees, and the borderlands.

Seven new books from University of Rochester professors span Beethoven, bees, the borderlands, and more.
topics: Bethany Lacina, Bob Minckley, Darren Lipomi, faculty, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jedediah Kuhn, Medical Center, Mical Raz, Nora Rubel, Rochester Review, School of Arts and Sciences,
Gourab Ghoshal sits at his desk in his office with a bookshelf full of books and objects behind him.
From the Magazine
October 29, 2026

Office hours with Gourab Ghoshal

The URochester professor on complex systems, the emergence of life and intelligence, and what distinguishes living systems from machines.

The URochester professor on complex systems, the emergence of life and intelligence, and what distinguishes living systems from machines.
topics: Department of Computer Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, faculty, Gourab Ghoshal, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Rochester Review, School of Arts and Sciences,
An empty crossword puzzle grid with numbered squares and across clues from “It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas,” a methane-themed puzzle by Stella Zawistowski.
From the Magazine
October 29, 2026

Wordplay | Solution: It’s a gas, gas, gas

Access the answer grid for the crossword puzzle from the fall 2026 print edition of Rochester Review magazine.

Access the answer grid for the crossword puzzle from the fall 2026 print edition of Rochester Review magazine.
topics: Rochester Review,
Eastman School of Music student string quartet and percussionist perform for Monroe County Jail residents and staff.

A new partnership explores what happens when incarcerated people are given the chance not just to listen to music but to create it.

A new education partnership between the Eastman School of Music and Rochester’s Monroe County Jail allows inmates to create music.
topics: Eastman School of Music, Elinor Freer, Rochester Education Justice Initiative, Rochester Review,
Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch, wearing a green blazer, exchanges an elbow bump with an employee in the restaurant kitchen as another employee smiles.
Campus & Community
October 29, 2026

Shake Shack’s big cheese

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch ’99, ’00S (MBA) has built a career reviving restaurant brands by investing in people.

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch ’99, ’00S (MBA) has built a career reviving restaurant brands by investing in people.
topics: alumni, Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Rochester Review, School of Arts and Sciences, Simon Business School,