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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, 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, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Materials Science Program, planets, research finding, Rip Collins,
Summer Sustainability Fellows asked Rochester resident to complete a climate change survey.

How will climate change affect the health and well-being of City of Rochester residents? This summer, students in a new sustainability fellowship program worked with city officials to help answer the question.

How will climate change affect the health of City of Rochester residents? Students in a new fellowship program are working to help answer the question.
topics: Arts Sciences and Engineering, climate change, community, Department of Environmental Medicine, Katrina Korfmacher, sustainability,
portrait of Donald Hall

The Quadcast team sits down with Donald Hall, the new dean of the faculty for Arts, Sciences & Engineering, to discuss his approach to building academic communities, to growing an increasingly diverse and inclusive faculty, and to fostering the internationalization of higher education.

The Quadcast team sits down with Donald Hall, the new dean of the faculty for Arts, Sciences & Engineering.
topics: Arts Sciences and Engineering, Donald Hall, QuadCast,
pedestrian bridge over the Genesee River

National statistics show a definite link between the hot weather months and increasing crime rates. The Department of Public Safety provides members of the University community timely tips to help prevent victimization.

The Department of Public Safety provides members of the University community timely tips to help prevent victimization during the summer.
topics: Department of Public Safety,