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University News
February 1, 2019

Celebrating black history

Throughout February, sponsors and campus organizations will host lectures, films, performances, family events, and more as students, faculty, and the Rochester community celebrate Black History Month.

Campus organizations host lectures, films, family events, and more as students, faculty, and the Rochester community celebrate Black History Month.

topics: Black History Month, events, featured-post-side,
close up of laser array

One of the biggest challenges to controlled nuclear fusion has been the lack of accurate models to predict increased fusion energy yields. Now a Rochester team of more than 50 scientists has used “big data” to triple fusion yields.

A team of more than 50 Rochester scientists, working with colleagues from MIT, has used “big data” to triple fusion yields.

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, nuclear fusion, research finding,
a chair in an empty room with a light overhead, like in an interrogation room

In the latest Humanities Center lecture on evidence and expertise, the director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program discusses how a confession can turn into a miscarriage of justice.

The director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program discusses how a confession can turn into a miscarriage of justice.

topics: events, Humanities Center,
illustration of Earth with a cutout section showing the core surrounded by blue magnetic fields.
Science & Technology
January 29, 2019

Earth’s inner core is much younger than we thought

Rochester researchers have gathered the first field data that show the Earth’s inner core is only about 565 million years old—relatively young compared to the age of our 4.5-billion-year-old planet.

Researchers have gathered the first field data that show the inner core is 565 million years old—young compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old planet.

topics: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, featured-post-side, John Tarduno, planets, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
three students -- son, mother, and father -- sitting around a table. The son is using a laptop and is in a wheelchair. Father reads a book while mother and son talk and laugh
Campus & Community
January 29, 2019

One family, two generations, three degrees

A car accident during his first winter break had left Giuliano Agostinho de Castro ’20 paralyzed from the chest down. Now he’s back on campus, and his parents are his classmates.

A car accident during his first winter break had left him paralyzed from the chest down. Now he's back on campus, and his parents are his classmates.

topics: Department of Economics, Department of History, featured-post, School of Arts and Sciences, Warner School of Education,
map of Australia with pins in it

What makes for a good celebration of national origins? Professor of philosophy Randall Current recently discussed the issue on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as the controversy over Australia Day grows.

What makes for a good celebration of national origins? Professor of philosophy Randall Curren recently discussed the growing controversy over Australia Day.

topics: Department of Philosophy, global engagement, Randall Curren, School of Arts and Sciences,
pen-and-ink illustration in the margin of a handwritten letter shows a woman looking sadly out a window
Society & Culture
January 28, 2019

‘Drifting open eyed into insanity’

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation has acquired a remarkable collection of 52 personal letters from author and early feminist reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who minces no words when it comes to motherhood, marriage, and depression.

In a newly acquired collection of letters from the early feminist reformer, she minces no words when it comes to work, motherhood, marriage, and depression.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post, River Campus Libraries, women's rights,
illustration of fluid moving through an artery

New Rochester research may help explain the connection between high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s disease, and it’s all to do with how the brain pumps away waste.

New Rochester research may help explain the connection between high blood pressure and Alzheimer's, and it's all to do with how the brain pumps away waste.

topics: Alzheimer’s disease, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Douglas Kelley, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Maiken Nedergaard, Materials Science Program, research finding,
diversity award on a table

Myra Henry, the senior director of administrative services, and the Commission on Women and Gender Equity in Academia have been chosen as recipients of the 2018 Presidential Diversity Awards.

Myra Henry and the Commission on Women and Gender Equity in Academia have been chosen as recipients of the 2018 Presidential Diversity Awards.

topics: awards, diversity, diversity-inclusion, Presidential Diversity Awards,
side by side portraits of Maia Raynor and Anirudh Sharma
Science & Technology
January 25, 2019

Local teens recognized for Laser Lab research

Two high school seniors have been designated as Scholars in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search for research they carried out last summer at the University’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

topics: awards, community, Laboratory for Laser Energetics,