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Founder of the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery. Philanthropist and patron of the arts in Rochester. Emily Sibley Watson left a significant mark on the city and the University…
Biography of Emily Sibley Watson, founder of the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery, philanthropist, and patron of the arts in Rochester.
University of Rochester alumnus. Canadian physicist. Pioneer in the field of lasers. Recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. The laser, or light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation,…
Biography of Donna Strickland, University of Rochester alumnus, physicist and pioneer in the field of lasers, and Nobel Prize winner.
Members of a University of Rochester cosmology group who are a key part of a multi-institutional effort to create the most detailed 3-D map ever made of the universe are looking forward to the launch of the instrument later this year in Arizona.
The team—Regina Demina, professor of physics; Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, postdoctoral research associate; Segev BenZvi, assistant professor of physics; and Kelly Douglass, visiting assistant professor of physics and astronomy—are working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project, an initiative to provide a more comprehensive look at dark energy and how it’s influencing the expansion of the universe. The instrument—including the 5,000 robotic positioners of the telescope’s focal plane (above)—will capture data from 35 million galaxies, potentially providing insight about the life cycle of galaxies and about the cosmic web that connects matter in the universe.
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the lead institution on the project, announced on June 1 that DESI was complete and was moving toward its startup.
Members of a University of Rochester group who are a key part of a multi-institutional effort to create the most detailed 3-D map ever made of the universe are looking forward to the start of the instrument later this year in Arizona.
The first African American woman to be elected to the Monroe County (New York) Legislature. Fierce advocate for education, housing, jobs, and equality in Rochester. In 1965, Connie Mitchell walked…
Biography for Connie Mitchell, Rochester activist and the first African American woman to be elected to the Monroe County (New York) Legislature.
University of Rochester alumnus. Psychologist and professor. Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The first African American woman to serve active duty in the US Coast Guard. As…
Biography of Olivia Hooker, Rochester alumnus, survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and the first African American woman to serve in the Coast Guard.
In a career spanning 30 years at the Foreign Policy Association, Vera Micheles Dean informed public opinion and international policy with her insightful and unbiased work.
Profile of Vera Micheles Dean, founding director of Rochester’s Non-Western Civilizations program and research director for the Foreign Policy Association.
University of Rochester alumnus. Cofounder of the Sexual Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). Early medical director at Planned Parenthood. Mary Calderone ’39M (MD) was known as “the…
Biography of Mary Steichen Calderone, University of Rochester alumnus, author, cofounder of SIECUS, and early medical director at Planned Parenthood.
University of Rochester alumnus. Biochemist who made significant contributions to the discovery of DNA polymerase. In 1953, the discovery of our now famous double-helix structure of DNA initiated a wave…
Biography of Sylvy Kornberg, University of Rochester alumnus and biochemist who made significant contributions to the science of DNA.
Community activist and educator. The first African American woman to serve both as a member and as president of the Rochester City Council. In the title of her memoir, The…
Biography of Ruth Holland Scott, the first African American woman to serve both as a member and as president of the Rochester City Council.
Midge Costanza made U.S. history in her role as assistant to the president for public liaison in the Carter administration. Never before had a woman served on the senior White House staff, positioned just outside the Oval Office, with unprecedented access to the president.
Biography of Midge Costanza, a social and political activist from Rochester and the first woman to serve in the White House as a presidential assistant.