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The symposium includes several sessions and panels designed to build contemporary leadership skills with a global perspective.

Seven students from the College and Eastman School of Music are the first from Rochester to attend the University Scholars Leadership Symposium in Bangkok.

topics: Eastman School of Music, global engagement, the college,
Ellen Matson in her lab

Assistant professor of chemistry Ellen Matson is one of five inaugural recipients of the Course Hero-Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, awarded for balancing research with a commitment to innovative teaching practices.

Assistant professor of chemistry Ellen Matson is one of five inaugural recipients of a new fellowship for excellence in teaching.

topics: awards, Department of Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences,
researcher looks into the camera while working with his arms through a glass lab hood

Research at the University of Rochester doesn’t end when most students leave campus for the summer. It thrives. Students from across the globe are on the River Campus this summer, taking part in Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and other research programs with Rochester students and faculty members.

Research at the University of Rochester doesn’t end when most students leave campus for the summer. It thrives.

topics: David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity, featured-post-side, undergraduate research, URnano,
UHS building

The expansion of the University Health Service (UHS) Building on River Campus will add approximately 6,000 square feet of space for UHS services, including expanded access to mental health care, and meeting spaces for health support groups.

The expansion adds 6,000 square feet of space for UHS services, including expanded access to mental health care, and meeting spaces for health support groups.

topics: announcements, University Health Service,
Rochester Youth Year participant Sara Peterson with children

For the past decade, more than 100 graduates of Rochester-area colleges have spent their first year out of school working to alleviate poverty in the local community through the University’s Rochester Youth Year program.

topics: community, featured-post-side, Rochester Center for Community Leadership,
Rocky the Yellowjacket mascot marches in Pride Parade with a rainbow flag
In Photos
July 24, 2018

Happy Pride, Rochester!

A large contingent of University of Rochester students, faculty, and staff — more than 250 strong — joined the more than 150 organizations and an estimated 35,000 spectators who participated in the Rochester Pride Parade on Saturday.

A large contingent of students, faculty, and staff — more than 250 strong — joined the more than 150 organizations who participated in the Rochester Pride Parade.

topics: community, LGBTQI, Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center, Susan B. Anthony Center,
Narcan (Naloxone) kit in AED cabinets

Narcan nasal spray, an emergency medicine used to reverse an opioid overdose, is now included in all of the University’s publicly accessible AED (automated external defibrillator) cabinets, enabling anyone to administer the potentially life-saving treatment.

topics: announcements, Department of Public Safety,
Hand-drawn cartoon says the word NOTHING in large type but appearing to disappear
Science & Technology
July 24, 2018

Ultimate vacuum chamber creates nothing

The concept of nothingness is the subject of everything from children’s books to philosophical debate. In the universe, however, is nothing ever possible? How have scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians thought about the concept of nothing throughout history and up to the present?

How have scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians thought about concepts of nothing through history and up to the present? This vacuum chamber creates nothing.

topics: Department of Mathematics, Department of Philosophy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science Program, Nicholas Bigelow, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
illustration of Jupiter and Juptier's magnetic field

Liquid metallic hydrogen is not present naturally on Earth and has only been created in a handful of places, including the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. LLE scientists are researching the properties of liquid metallic hyrdrogen to understand how planets both inside and outside our solar system form magnetic shields.

Researchers at University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics create metallic hydrogen to study Jupiter’s magnetic field.

topics: exoplanets, featured-post-side, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Materials Science Program, planets, research finding, Rip Collins,