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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.
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.
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.
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.