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Despite the pandemic, the Greene Center helps connects students with opportunities to pursue life and career interests.

Despite the pandemic, the University of Rochester's Greene Career Center helps connects students with opportunities to pursue life and career interests.

topics: COVID-19, Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections, Joe Testani, recovery, restart,
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University of Rochester alumni who graduated during the Great Recession of 2008–09 offer tips for finding a job during a recession.

University of Rochester graduates offer tips for finding a job during a recession.

topics: COVID-19, Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections, Joe Testani, recovery, restart,
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The 2020 recipients of the Edward Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student were recognized for their work in teaching and mentoring undergraduates.

The University of Rochester recognized graduate students with the 2020 Edward Peck Curtis Awards for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student.

topics: graduate students, Melissa Sturge-Apple,
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An online tool to screen for COVID-19 symptoms before employees report to work is being phased in University-wide in an effort to prevent new exposures to the illness from occurring on campus.

An online tool to screen for COVID-19 symptoms before employees report to work is being phased in University-wide in an effort to prevent new exposures to the illness from occurring on campus.

topics: Arts Sciences and Engineering, COVID-19, Eastman School of Music, Rochester Restart,
In black and white, scene from Andy Griffith Show in which Opie courts older girl.

“Playing hard to get makes it seem as if you are more in demand—we call that having higher mate value,” says Harry Reis, a University of Rochester psychologist who collaborated on a new study that examined the mating strategy.

A University of Rochester study finds that playing hard to get can work as a potential mating strategy.

topics: Department of Psychology, Harry Reis, relationships, School of Arts and Sciences,
Close-up of a health professional's gloved hand holding a syringe while an unrecognizable person has their palm out to reject the vaccination.

In a New York Times op-ed, Adnan Hirad ’20M (MD/PhD) writes that the deliberate spreading of misleading information about COVID-19 “has metastasized among Somalis in the United States and abroad.”

In a New York Times op-ed, a Rochester alumnus writes that misleading information about COVID-19 “has metastasized among Somalis" in the US and abroad.

topics: alumni, COVID-19, School of Medicine and Dentistry,
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When the World Health Organization was founded, the United States saw it as an extension of US foreign policy, says a University of Rochester historian.

When the World Health Organization was founded, the United States saw it as an extension of US foreign policy, says a University of Rochester historian.

topics: Department of History,

Cofounders of the Global Partnership for Women and Girls. Social entrepreneurs dedicated to the education and economic advancement of Muslim women and girls in local communities around the world. As…

Biographies of Sarwat and Nadia Malik, cofounders of the Global Partnership for Women and Girls and social activists for the Muslim community.

Celebration 2020
June 2, 2020

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

Susan B. Anthony voted only once in her decades-long struggle for women’s suffrage, and she did so illegally.

Biography of Susan B. Anthony, key activist in the movement for women's suffrage and advocate for women students at the University of Rochester.

Celebration 2020
June 2, 2020

Beatrice Amaza Howard (1909–1996)

University of Rochester alumnus. Teacher. First African American woman to graduate from the University. In 1879, the University of Rochester unveiled a striking marble bust of abolitionist, activist, and local…

Biography of Beatrice Amaza Howard, a notable educator and the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Rochester.