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John Covach, director of the University’s Institute for Popular Music, remembers the pop and rock values of Tom Petty. “Petty was not a new waver after all, but rather someone moving forward by looking back.”
“Petty was not a new waver after all, but rather someone moving forward by looking back,” says Institute for Popular Music director John Covach.
When we think of research, many of us picture test tubes in a laboratory or manuscripts in a library. But some research projects—especially in the fields of health, education, and the social sciences—involve people as they go about their daily lives. How, then, can the University conduct community-engaged projects that are effective, evidence-based, and sustainable? Rochester students, researchers, and community members explored this question as part of the fifth annual Community Engagement Symposium.
In addition to being evidence-based, the most productive research collaborations between the University and the community foster mutual benefit and respect.
The former Midnight Rambler is finding success on the London stage. Bat Out of Hell: The Musical makes its North American premiere in Toronto in October.
Professor Robert L. McCrory, a physicist and scientific leader who has shepherded the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics to international prominence during the past 35 years, will retire from the directorship on October 1.
A partnership between the University and local community organizations, the TOUR program has made a college experience accessible to hundreds of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A partnership between the University and local organizations, TOUR makes a college experience accessible to hundreds of young adults with disabilities.
Today, the Special Committee overseeing the independent investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation at the University of Rochester announced a series of measures intended to confirm the rigor, fairness and transparency of the investigative process.
Today, the Special Committee announced a series of measures intended to confirm the rigor, fairness and transparency of the investigative process.
Optics professor Xi-Cheng Zhang has worked for nearly a decade to solve a scientific puzzle.
Xi-Cheng Zhang has worked for nearly a decade to solve a scientific puzzle that many believed to be impossible: producing terahertz waves from liquid water.
The University’s first all-female Students’ Association leadership team sits down with Quadcast host Peter Iglinski to talk about their plans for the 2017-17 academic year.
Read the complete transcript of the September 27 episode of the University of Rochester’s Quadcast podcast.
Inspired by Austin’s South by Southwest conference, the organizers of this year’s event partnered with RIT and the City of Rochester to highlight the region as a source for innovation.
Inspired by Austin's South by Southwest conference, the organizers of this year's event partnered with RIT and the City of Rochester.