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Society & Culture
October 11, 2017

URMC’s SMILEmobile serves students at East High

The SMILEmobile—a self-contained traveling dental clinic—is wheelchair-accessible and designed to reach underserved or hard-to-reach populations.

A self-contained traveling dental clinic, the Smilemobile is wheelchair-accessible and designed to reach underserved or hard-to-reach populations.
topics: community, Eastman Institute for Oral Health,
a nurse peers into a young woman's ear with an otoscope

More than 1,100 students at East enrolled in the free program in the 2016-17 school year, accessing comprehensive physical and mental health services on the school campus.

The full-service clinic provides free comprehensive physical and mental health services on-site at the school.
topics: community, School of Nursing,
young man in a suit seated in front of several standing castmembers on stage

The play, created directly from transcripts, chronicles the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing in which the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is called before the commission.

The play, created directly from transcripts, chronicles the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing in which J. Robert Oppenheimer is called to testify.
topics: Department of English, humanities, International Theatre Program, Nigel Maister, politics, School of Arts and Sciences,
Nobel Prize Richard Thaler ’74 (PhD) (2017)

Richard Thaler, who earned his graduate degrees at the University of Rochester, has received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics.

Richard Thaler, who earned his graduate degrees at Rochester, is a leading scholar on the intersection between human behavior and economic decision making.
topics: Arts Sciences and Engineering, Department of Economics, Nobel Prize, Richard Thaler, School of Arts and Sciences, Simon Business School, Social Sciences,
students wearing red t-shirts and work gloves near city buildings

The Rochester Center for Community Leadership was created in 2005 to put University student community engagement programs under one umbrella. In 12 years, it’s become a pretty big umbrella.

In 12 years, the Rochester Center for Community Leadership has grown from two programs to many, enabling students to engage and learn outside the classroom.
topics: community, Rochester Center for Community Leadership, Wilson Day,

Adam Parkes ’93 (PhD) explores the writing of Kazuo Ishiguro, recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, noting his fearless literary experimentation meshed with a simple austerity.

topics: Department of English, humanities, literature, School of Arts and Sciences,

Wilson Day enables first-year students to learn about the Rochester community during orientation, as they help out at nearly 100 local agencies, including schools, churches, nursing homes, museums, and more.

Wilson Day enables first-year students to learn about the Rochester community during orientation via volunteer work at nearly 100 local agencies.
topics: community, Rochester Center for Community Leadership, Wilson Day,
photo of Liz Poliner

The annual prize was created in 1976 to recognize American women on the precipice of promising writing careers.

Poliner won for her novel As Close to Us as Breathing. She will be on campus November 1st for the awards ceremony and a reading, followed by a book signing.
topics: awards, Department of English, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, literature, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,