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Maria Hinojosa

The four-time Emmy winner and host of National Public Radio’s Latino USA and PBS’s America By The Numbers will deliver the University’s 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address on Friday, January 19.

Host of National Public Radio’s Latino USA and PBS’s America By The Numbers delivers the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Address on Friday, January 19.
topics: diversity, events, Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, Office of Minority Student Affairs,
Dr. Atwater stands in front of a table covered in AIDS health posters
Society & Culture
November 30, 2017

Posters present a visual history of AIDS epidemic

For decades, Edward Atwater ’50, a professor emeritus of medicine at the Medical Center, has collected medical history artifacts. In 2007, he began turning his collection of more than 8,000 AIDS education posters over to the University and it is now the world’s largest single collection of visual resources related to AIDS and HIV.

The University of Rochester libraries are home to the world’s largest single online collection of visual resources related to AIDS and HIV.
topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, HIV and AIDS,
illustration of a black bird against a red background.

This fifth collection of poetry from the Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English had its roots in a poem he wrote called “Pastoral,” which would set the collection’s tone of “feeling or spiritual development.”

This fifth collection of poetry from Longenbach had its roots in a poem called “Pastoral,” which would set the tone of “feeling or spiritual development.”
topics: Department of English, James Longenbach, literature, School of Arts and Sciences,
director standing on stage

The two-time Obie Award-winner is in Rochester to direct Octavia, a play ripped from the headlines in the year AD 62.

topics: Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
University seal

The Special Committee of the University of Rochester’s Board of Trustees announced today that an Independent Investigation into allegations raised in a complaint to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will be completed by early January.

Special Committee announced today that an Independent Investigation into allegations raised in a complaint to the EEOC will be completed by early January.
Teresa Valdez behind a podium at the Language Center, with the words "We’ve tried to bring international and domestic students together in one space of interaction ...We want to grow and grow.

Language Center director Teresa Valdez speaks at an event Tuesday celebrating the center’s one-year anniversary. Located in Douglass Commons, the center’s mission is to raise intercultural awareness and promote the 18 languages offered on the River Campus. Valdez says enrollment in foreign language classes has increased 22 percent since the center opened last fall.(University of Rochester photo / Jordan Mangefrida)

Language Center director Teresa Valdez speaks at an event Tuesday celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Language Center.
topics: Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center,
cast of actors on stage, one of them leaping through the air.
The Arts
November 22, 2017

Octavia opens at Todd Theater

The International Theatre Program closes its fall semester with the production of the rarely staged play Octavia, directed by Obie Award-winning guest director Ken Rus Schmoll.

International Theatre Program closes its fall semester with the rarely staged play Octavia, directed by Obie Award-winning director Ken Rus Schmoll
topics: Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
man sitting along on a red couch, drinking tea

In a series of experiments, Rochester psychologists found that people who sat alone without devices for 15 minutes and chose what to think about experienced the positive effects of solitude: feeling calmer and less anxious, without feeling lonely or sad.

Psychologists found that people who sat alone for 15 minutes experienced the positive effects of solitude: calmer and less anxious, without feeling lonely.
topics: Department of Psychology, Edward Deci, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,