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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.