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As part Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, members of the University community are participate in the national Clothesline Project, designing t-shirts to create a visual display of the real impacts of sexual assault.

topics: Department of Public Safety, University Counseling Center,
Society & Culture
March 5, 2018

Scholars examine memory through many lenses

From the post-Reformation trauma of Shakespeare’s history plays, to the poignant scrapbooks created by the families of British soldiers killed in World War I, the fellowships sponsored by the Humanities Center this year focus on the interdisciplinary study of memory and forgetting.

topics: Department of English, Eastman School of Music, Humanities Center, interdisciplinary, School of Arts and Sciences,
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The spring production We Don’t Live on Mars Yet never started out as your typical theater production. It’s what’s called a devised work — where actors, production artists, and even the director don’t know what the final play will be.

We Don’t Live on Mars Yet never started out as a typical theater production. It’s what’s called a devised work — where actors, production artists, and even the director don't know what the final play will be.
topics: International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,

Taking on the ‘Culture at Large’ A decade, 100 titles, and 100,000 books later—Open Letter continues to reinvent the world of literary translation This spring the special collections of University Libraries…

Open Letter, the University of Rochester’s literary translation press, is reshaping how readers discover global fiction, poetry, and essays.
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Sharon Willis, a member of Rochester’s Film and Media Studies program faculty, says this year’s nominations show that change may be afoot in Hollywood—but that how much movies will be transformed remains to be seen.

Sharon Willis, a member of Rochester’s Film and Media Studies program faculty, says this year’s nominations show that change may be afoot in Hollywood—but that how much movies will be transformed remains to be seen.
topics: Department of Art and Art History, film, Film and Media Studies Program, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Sciences,
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In her new role in the Department of Music, Rachel Waddell encourages people to “listen to classical music in a different way,” connecting an upcoming performance of Antonin Dvořák’s New World Symphony to issues of immigration, and the meaning of “home.”

With the additions of dancers and audience participation, Rachel Waddell hopes to encourage people to “listen to classical music in a different way.”
topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, events, Rachel Waddel, School of Arts and Sciences,
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The 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings list the University of Rochester at number 51 among U.S. universities—public or private—and number 153 among more than 1,100 researcher universities worldwide.

Earth's magnetic field connects the North Pole with the South Pole in this NASA-created image.

Using new data gathered from sites in southern Africa, researchers have extended their record of Earth’s magnetic field back thousands of years to the first millennium.

Using new data gathered from southern Africa, University of Rochester researchers have extended their record of Earth’s magnetic field thousands of years.
topics: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, John Tarduno, planets, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
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The University of Rochester has launched a national search for a new director of its Goergen Institute for Data Science. Henry Kautz is stepping down after leading the institute since its founding in 2014.

topics: announcements, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,