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Campus & Community
January 24, 2019

Students selected for Take Five, e5 programs

The Take 5 and e5 programs, unique to Rochester, allow students to apply for a tuition-free fifth year of study. This year, 40 students will be taking part.

The Take 5 and e5 programs, unique to Rochester, allow students to apply for a tuition-free fifth year of study. This year, 40 students will be taking part.

topics: Take Five Scholars Program,
a test showing four close-ups of four sets of eyes, each one labeled with four choices of emotion. The first is labelled: joking, insisting, amused, or relaxed. The second is labeled: irritated, thoughtful, encouraging, or sympathetic. The third is labeled:jealous, insisting, amused, or relaxed. The fourth is labeled: sarcastic, stern, suspicious, dispirited.

A new Rochester study has shown that a widely accepted test for assessing a patient’s ability to understand the mental state of another is biased against the less educated and against racial and ethnic minorities.

Research shows that the widely accepted test is biased against the less educated and against racial and ethnic minorities.

topics: Department of Psychology, diversity, featured-post-side, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
detail from painting of Susan B. Anthony
University News
January 23, 2019

Meet the Susan B. Anthony Legacy Award winners

Seven undergraduate students and two Medical Center professors will be honored at the Susan B. Anthony Legacy Awards, a 62-year tradition that celebrates exceptional women at the University of Rochester.

Seven students and two professors will be honored at the Susan B. Anthony Legacy Awards, a 62-year University tradition that celebrates exceptional women.

topics: awards, events, Susan B. Anthony Center,
Symone Sanders gesturing from behind the podium.

During this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Commemorative Address, political commentator Symone Sanders focused on Dr. King’s work after the civil rights movement of 1965, and emphasized his lifelong mission of challenging the status quo. “For young people particularly on college campuses,” she said, “I like to remind them that you are some of the most powerful people in the world.”

During this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Day Commemorative Address, Symone Sanders focused on Dr. King's work after the civil rights movement of 1965.

topics: douglass leadership house, Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, Office of Minority Student Affairs,
old stamp from Jamaica includes a photo of King George VI and tow black men working a sugar plantation above the words SUGAR INDUSTRY

In a variety of events during her visit to Rochester’s Humanities Center, the Yale historian unravels the complex processes of colonialism while tracing her family history through Jamaica, Wales, and England.

The Yale historian unravels the complex processes of colonialism while tracing her family history through Jamaica, Wales, and England.

topics: events, Humanities Center,
a line of eight professional football players, three of them kneeling on one knee

Writing in the Washington Post political scientist Bethany Lacina shows how the gap in the popularity of black and white NFL players with white fans has increased since 2016.

Political scientist Bethany Lacina shows how the gap in the popularity of black and white NFL players with white fans has increased since 2016.

topics: Bethany Lacina, Department of Political Science, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Michele Rucci in the lab surrounding by equipment
Science & Technology
January 22, 2019

Microscopic eye movements affect how we see contrast

While the world may appear stable, our eyes are always jittering. Rochester research is showing how these eye movements, once thought to be inconsequential, are critical to our visual system.

Our eyes are always jittering. Rochester research is showing how these eye movements, once thought to be inconsequential, are critical to our visual system.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post-side, Michele Rucci, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
John Covach stands in front of a music stand, conducting
Voices & Opinion
January 17, 2019

Rochester: home to the study of pop music

The “study of pop music is just as serious-minded as studying Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms,” says John Covach, director of Rochester’s Institute for Popular Music in (585) magazine.

The “study of pop music is just as serious-minded as studying Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms,” says John Covach, director of the Institute for Popular Music.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,
student in a GO GREEN t-shirt poses next to containers for different types of recycling -- recycle, compost, trash

The University of Rochester is the national champion in the diversion category of the most recent National GameDay Recycling Challenge, the nation’s premier collegiate football waste reduction competition.

The University of Rochester is the national champion in the diversion category of the 2018 National GameDay Recycling Challenge.

topics: athletics, awards, Dining Services, Facilities and Services, sustainability,
two students pose for a portrait in front of a backdrop with the WUDC Cape Town 2019 logo

Nikhila Linganur ’20 and Warish Zaman Orko ’21 finished in the top eight percent of more than 400 teams from 90 countries, becoming the first-ever Rochester duo to advance to the break-out rounds at the World Universities Debating Championships.

Nikhila Linganur ’20 and Warish Zaman Orko ’21 are the first Rochester duo to advance to the break-out rounds at the World Universities Debating Championships.

topics: athletics,