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University News
September 25, 2017

Strategic planning update from Provost Rob Clark

The University is launching the web portal detailing the 2018–2025 strategic planning process, describing the working groups that will address the plan’s broader goals, and encouraging input and ideas from the University community.

topics: Robert Clark,
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What’s the function of a monument? Who should be honored with one—and who gets to decide? Richard Leventhal, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore these questions in the second annual James Conlon Memorial Lecture.

Richard Leventhal, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore these questions in the second James Conlon Memorial Lecture.
topics: Department of Religion and Classics, events, School of Arts and Sciences,
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Students, faculty, and alumni take their unique perspectives on difficult and controversial conversations into the community as part of the annual arts fest.

topics: community, Department of Religion and Classics, First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival, Missy Pfohl Smith, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
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In recognition of her scholarship and teaching acumen, Nora Rubel has been named the inaugural holder of the Jane and Alan Batkin Endowed Professorship in Jewish Studies.

In recognition of her scholarship and teaching, Nora Rubel has been named the inaugural Jane and Alan Batkin Endowed Professorship in Jewish Studies.
topics: Center for Jewish Studies, gift, Nora Rubel, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,
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Over the next three years, 18 professors from the eastern European nation will have had the chance to take classes, meet business leaders, and return home to incorporate what they’ve learned into their own programs.

Professors from the eastern European nation will take classes, meet business leaders, and incorporate what they’ve learned into their own programs.
topics: Ain Center for Entrepreneurship, global engagement,
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In Photos
September 22, 2017

Slam-dunking success

Former Los Angeles Lakers NBA star Byron Scott meets with athletes from the women’s basketball team for a “shoot-around” in the Palestra. Scott was in town to meet with Charlie Morris ’68 to discuss a book the pair co-authored, Slam-Dunk Success: Leading from Every Position on Life’s Court.

Former Los Angeles Lakers NBA star Byron Scott meets with athletes from the women's basketball team for a “shoot-around” in the Palestra.
topics: athletics,
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The theme of this year’s Humanities Center lecture series is “Memory and Forgetting,” and in this first lecture, art and cultural critic Douglas Crimp will discuss “Relying on Memory: From AIDS to Merce Cunningham.”

In the first lecture in the Humanities Center series, art and cultural critic Douglass Crimp will discuss “Relying on Memory: AIDS to Merce Cunningham.”
A view of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in the New York skyline, as seen from the harbor.

Careers for Women, a new novel by English professor Joanna Scott, had its beginnings in her attic where she rediscovered a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that she’d collected in the wake of September 11, 2001.

topics: book authors, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences,
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The Board of Trustees has appointed a Special Committee to oversee an independent, comprehensive investigation into all matters involving the EEOC Complaint. 

Board of Trustees has appointed a Special Committee to oversee an independent, comprehensive investigation into all matters involving the EEOC Complaint.
topics: board of trustees,
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Biologist Amanda Larracuente and her team are the first to successfully sequence the firefly genome.

Rochester biologist Amanda Larracuente and her team are now the first to successfully sequence the firefly genome.
topics: Amanda Larracuente, Department of Biology, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,