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Each spring, the University of Rochester celebrates staff members for their significant and longstanding contributions through its staff awards program.

Each spring, the University of Rochester celebrates staff members for their significant and longstanding contributions through its staff awards program.

topics: Community Service Award, meliora award, staff, staff awards, witmer award,
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Society & Culture
May 27, 2020

A ‘different kind of wonder’

The European Renaissance’s engagement with the Arctic is a little-known chapter of history but a relevant one today, when the region once again has become a site of anxious attention.

An art historian explores the European Renaissance’s engagement with the Arctic and its relevance to debates about climate change today.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, featured-post-side, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Sciences,
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Science & Technology
May 27, 2020

‘Time is vision’ after a stroke

A person who has a stroke that causes vision loss is often told there is nothing they can do to improve or regain the vision they have lost. A new study offers hope for stroke patients who have suffered vision loss—provided their treatment begins early.

Stroke patients who have suffered vision loss may have a chance of having it restored—as long as treatment begins early.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Duje Tadin, Flaum Eye Institute, Krystel Huxlin, School of Arts and Sciences,
Celebration 2020
May 26, 2020

Louise Slaughter (1929–2018)

An American politician representing Upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives for 16 consecutive terms.

Biography of Louise Slaughter, a politician representing Rochester and upstate New York in the House of Representatives for 16 consecutive terms.

Side-by-side portraits of Martin Sanders and Elizabeth Ward.

The University’s Board of Trustees welcomed two new members to the board this spring and recognized three members as life trustees.

The University's Board of Trustees welcomed two new members to the board this spring and recognized three members as life trustees.

topics: board of trustees,
Sevin Yeltekin

A noted economics scholar and innovator in business education, Sevin Yeltekin will be Simon Business School’s eighth dean and the first woman to lead the school.

Sevin Yeltekin, a professor of economics and administrator at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, has been appointed dean of the Simon Business School.

topics: appointments, dean, Simon Business School,
color guard at Veteran Memorial Grove.

Members of the University of Rochester community have served in the United States military—and lost their lives in that service—almost since the University was founded in 1850.

University of Rochester students and alumni have served and died in uniform almost since the University was founded in 1850.

topics: featured-post, NROTC, veterans,
transplant surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital

Strong Memorial Hospital reaches a milestone as organ transplant surgeries continue to take place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The University of Rochester's organ transplant program reaches a milestone as the critical surgeries take place despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Computational scientists win a National Science Foundation grant to develop a tool to provide accurate, timely information to local-level policymakers monitoring the spread of COVID-19.

Rochester computational scientists win a National Science Foundation grant to develop the tool to aid local-level policymakers.

topics: Andrew White, Department of Chemical and Sustainability Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Gourab Ghoshal, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Science Foundation, School of Arts and Sciences,
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A new study shows that couples who accurately perceive appeasement emotions, such as embarrassment, have better relationships than those who feel anger or contempt.

A new study shows that accurately reading a partner's emotions has a better effect on the relationship when those emotions show concern, rather than anger.

topics: Department of Psychology, relationships, School of Arts and Sciences,