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close-up of window of Language Center, covered in greetings in multiple languages.

Students and tutors from the University of Rochester’s Language Center were on local radio this week to mark World Poetry Day with a celebration of poems in Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and American Sign Language.

Students and tutors from the Language Center mark World Poetry Day with a celebration of poems in Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, and American Sign Language.

topics: diversity,
close up of a finger print with lines pointing to patterns.
Society & Culture
March 20, 2019

Can we trust forensic evidence?

In the final lecture in this year’s Humanities Center series, UCLA law school dean Jennifer Mnookin discusses the troubling role faulty forensic science continues to play in the criminal justice system.

In a Humanities Center lecture, UCLA law school dean Jennifer Mnookin discusses the role faulty forensic science plays in the criminal justice system.

topics: events, Humanities Center,
close up of hands hammering a nail, with a thumb covered in bandages and bent nails all around.
Society & Culture
March 19, 2019

How to fail properly and often

Julia Maddox, director of the University’s Barbara J. Burger iZone in Rush Rhees Library, talks about creating a safe space for students to try things, and fail, while reducing the pressure to have to succeed all the time.

topics: Barbara J. Burger iZone, River Campus Libraries,
frog sitting on a cellphone
Voices & Opinion
March 19, 2019

Applying psychology to online dating

“There’s the old saying that you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince—and I think that really applies to online dating,” says professor Harry Reis in an NBC News post on how to be better at online dating, according to psychology.

“There’s the old saying that you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince—and I think that really applies to online dating,” says professor Harry Reis.

topics: Department of Psychology, Harry Reis, relationships,
students and professors in a crowded lab, flooded with blue light
Science & Technology
March 19, 2019

Saving the lost text of a Torah scroll

Professor Gregory Heyworth and his digital media students are using different wavelengths of light to reveal illegible text that could create a sacred, tangible link with Jewish congregations lost to the Holocaust.

Professor Gregory Heyworth and his students reveal illegible text that could create a sacred, tangible link with Jewish congregations lost to the Holocaust.

topics: Department of English, Department of Religion and Classics, featured-post-side, Gregory Heyworth, Lazarus Project, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
movie still of the Captain Marvel superhero in costume.

“The myth that female- or minority-led films struggle at the box office has been debunked again,” writes Bethany Lacina, an associate professor of political science, in an analysis for the Washington Post.

topics: Bethany Lacina, Department of Political Science, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
student holds and envelope while people on either side of him kiss and hug him.
In Photos
March 15, 2019

Make me a perfect match

Michael Estephan is congratulated after opening his Match Day envelope. At noon precisely, Estaphan and approximately 100 students from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry joined medical students from around the country to simultaneously open sealed envelopes and learn where they’re headed for their residencies. The day caps off years of work and study as the students learn where they will spend the next several years in training for their first jobs as physicians, with Rochester students filling residencies at the top medical centers in the country. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster)

topics: School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Jamie Bernstein

Jamie Bernstein, writer, broadcaster, and narrator, will discuss her father’s legacy as part of a series of events celebrating “Leonard Bernstein and American Musical Theater.”

Jamie Bernstein--writer, broadcaster, narrator--will discuss her father’s legacy in a series celebrating “Leonard Bernstein and American Musical Theater.”

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Eastman Community Music School, Eastman School of Music, events, Humanities Center, Humanities Project, Rachel Waddel, School of Arts and Sciences,
aging hands gripping a cane.

Research from Rochester biologists shows that a class of genomic parasites may cause more harm than previously thought, triggering inflammation that causes age-related diseases.

Rochester research shows that the harm caused by selfish genetic elements reaches much further than previously thought.

topics: Aging, Andrei Seluanov, Department of Biology, genetics, research finding, Vera Gorbunova,
the White House in the background, with a metal fence in the foreground, signalling the idea of a divide.

In a study spanning the first 18 months of the Donald Trump presidency, the non-partisan Bright Line Watch research group found large areas of agreement as to what constitutes critical democratic principles, but little agreement over which have been violated.

Bright Line Watch survey found Trump supporters and opponents increasingly divided on whether the most important institutions of democracy are under threat.

topics: Department of Political Science, featured-post-side, government, Gretchen Helmke, research finding,