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University News
April 22, 2019

Annual awards recognize staff stars

Each spring, through the Meliora Awards, Witmer Awards, and Staff Community Service Award, the University celebrates outstanding staff members for their significant and longstanding contributions.

Through the Meliora Awards, Witmer Awards, and Staff Community Service Award, the University celebrates outstanding staff members.

topics: awards, Community Service Award, meliora award, witmer award,
Paul Romer receiving Nobel Prize

Nobel laureate Paul Romer, a former assistant professor of economics, returns to campus to discuss how “economics can offer better answers to the most important questions facing humanity.”

The former assistant professor of economics will discuss how “economics can offer better answers to the most important questions facing humanity.”

topics: Department of Economics, Nobel Prize, School of Arts and Sciences,
video still of an actor playing Frederick Douglass, walking a horse through a field

British filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien’s visionary 10-screen film installation is the second in a series of media art commissions at the Memorial Art Gallery devoted to the history and culture of the city of Rochester.

topics: events, Frederick Douglass, Memorial Art Gallery,
Kathryn Mariner

Kathryn Mariner, an assistant professor of anthropology and visual and cultural studies, is one of 32 faculty members in the United States named as new Career Enhancement Fellows.

The assistant professor of anthropology and visual and cultural studies is one of 32 new Career Enhancement Fellows.

topics: awards, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Kathryn Mariner, School of Arts and Sciences,
older woman in a swimsuit and cap flexing her muscles at the beach.

Rochester researchers have uncovered more evidence that the key to the “Fountain of Youth” may reside in a gene that is found to produce more potent proteins in species with longer lifespans.

Rochester researchers have uncovered more evidence that the key to the “Fountain of Youth” may reside in a gene.

topics: Andrei Seluanov, Department of Biology, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Vera Gorbunova,
close-up of a shell, showing the lustrous properties of nacre, or mother-of-pearl

Nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, is an exceptionally tough natural material found in shells and pearls. Rochester biologists have developed an innovative method for creating nacre in the lab—and maybe on the moon.

Rochester biologists have developed an innovative method for creating nacre, or mother-of-pearl, in the lab—and maybe on the moon.

topics: Anne S. Meyer, Department of Biology, Materials Science Program, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
woman in scrubs works in the lab, looking at a series of monitors.

They create novel devices and develop new technologies with global impact. The University of Rochester ranks fourth among US universities in its percentage of international patent holders who are women. What brought these women to the University—and what enables them to thrive?

The University of Rochester ranks fourth among US universities in its percentage of international patent holders who are women.

topics: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Dermatology, Department of Ophthalmology, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, patents, School of Nursing,
Close up of a table of awards.

This year, nineteen individuals and three groups will be honored during the College’s annual Student Life Awards, also known as “the Rockys.” The 2019 dinner and awards ceremony takes place Thursday, April 18.

This year, nineteen individuals and three groups will be honored during the College’s annual Student Life Awards, also known as "the Rockys."

topics: awards, Student Life Awards,
woman in a lab coat.

Assistant professor Paula Doyle has gone from a Paris fashion house to the rain forests of Papua New Guinea to the operating room, where a challenging robotic surgery led to the invention of a novel surgical “flashlight.”

A challenging robotic surgery led Assistant professor Paula Doyle to the invention of a novel surgical “flashlight.”

Danielle Benoit in her lab.

From a childhood spent tinkering in the Maine woods, associate professor of biomedical engineering Danielle Benoit is now the author or co-author of nine approved or pending patents, mostly focused on the targeted delivery of drug therapies.

From a childhood spent tinkering in the Maine woods, Danielle Benoit is now co-author of nine patents, focused on the targeted delivery of drug therapies.

topics: Danielle Benoit, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,