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University of Rochester President and CEO Joel Seligman announced his resignation Thursday, effective February 28, bringing to a close one of the more transformative chapters in University leadership.

University of Rochester President and CEO Joel Seligman announced his resignation Thursday, effective February 28, bringing to a close one of the more transformative chapters in University leadership.

topics: Joel Seligman,
Sasha Eloi

In this essay, Sasha Eloi-Evans ’05, ’17 (W), the academic programming coordinator for the Office of Minority Student Affairs and a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, reflects on diversity in higher education in the nearly 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s death.

In this essay, Sasha Eloi-Evans ’05, ’17W (EdD) reflects on diversity and justice in higher education in the nearly 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s death.

topics: Department of Linguistics, featured-post-side, Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, School of Arts and Sciences,
Mark Bils

Bils’s work has focused on how wages and prices respond to the business cycle, and is one of 20 fellows named to the prestigious international organization this year.

topics: awards, Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences,
University seal

The Report of the Independent Investigation will be released to the public and the University community on Thursday, January 11. Links to a livestream presentation and final report will be available here.

The Report of the Independent Investigation will be released to the public and the University community on Thursday, January 11. Links to a livestream presentation and final report will be available here.

topics: board of trustees,
boy in wheelchair plays with adapted bubble blowing toy with help from his mother

Toys that beep. Toys that light up and sing. All adapted by engineering students for children with special needs. For parents visiting the University of Rochester Medical Center, taking home a toy their child can play with themselves is “really awesome.”

topics: community, disabilities, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
man standing in front of two pieces of art work
The Arts
January 8, 2018

A stitcher’s story

Randall Cook, building and project manager for River Campus Libraries, turned a hobby used to relieve the stress of his previous job as a software engineering into the art quilts featured in the Memorial Art Gallery’s “Hidden Passions” series.

topics: Memorial Art Gallery, River Campus Libraries,
man breakdancing in front of a crowd

Did you know you can major in dance? Or take a course in dance even if you’ve never danced before? As the annual inspireDance Festival gears up later this month, learn more about how dance and Rochester go hand in hand.

Did you know you can major in dance? Or take a course in dance even if you've never danced before? As the annual inspireDance Festival gears up, learn more about how dance and Rochester go hand in hand.

topics: events, featured-post, inspireDANCE Festival, Institute for the Performing Arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
city skyline of New Delhi

Chicago and Delhi. Rome and Rochester. The students in the 100-level course “The City: Contested Spaces” take a virtual tour of them all, while pondering an overarching question—can people’s lives be reshaped by redesigning urban spaces?

The students in the 100-level course “The City: Contested Spaces” ponder an overarching question—can people’s lives be reshaped by redesigning urban spaces?

topics: Department of Anthropology, Department of Art and Art History, Department of History, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, interdisciplinary, Laura Ackerman Smoller, Peter Christensen, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences,
negative mass particles created in an illustration using two mirrors and an optical microcavity

Rochester researchers have created particles with negative mass in an atomically thin semiconductor, using a device that creates an optical microcavity.

Negative mass particles created by Rochester researchers in an atomically thin semiconductor, using a device that creates an optical microcavity.

topics: featured-post-side, Institute of Optics, Materials Science Program, Nick Vamivakas, photonics, quantum science, research finding, URnano,
two portraits side by side

Two University faculty members—William Jones of the Department of Chemistry and Xi-Cheng Zhang of the Institute of Optics—have received prestigious Humboldt Research Awards.

Two University faculty—William Jones of the Department of Chemistry and Xi-Cheng Zhang of the Institute of Optics—have received Humboldt Research Awards.

topics: Department of Chemistry, global engagement, Institute of Optics, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences, William Jones,