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A computer model developed at Rochester, and used to compare model data to analysis on 100,000-year-old Greenland ice cores, has shown a surprising result.
Gilda DeDona on the transition from tourist to researcher in her first weeks at a summer field school in Ghana.
Is it money, power, and fame? Or rather fear and punishment? For nearly 40 years Richard Ryan and Edward Deci, the founders of self-determination theory, have sought to answer the question of human motivation.
Samantha Turley, a dual-degree student and the Eastman School of Music and in the College, sings the praises of Ghanaian bus drivers.
Ignacio Franco, assistant professor of chemistry and physics, has been selected as a winner of the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for fall 2017 by the American Chemical Society.
Tali Flatté ’19 on her first days participating in a summer field school in Ghana, from the University of Ghana campus to the forts, castles, and lighthouses on the coast.
Poet Jennifer Grotz, a professor of English, has been named the next director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. She is the first woman to serve as director of the oldest American conference for writers.
The professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics succeeds Richard Feldman, who served as dean of the College for the past decade, and will begin his five-year term on July 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.
The view from the Moore Street bridge across from the River Campus as a barge transporting the large beer fermentation tanks destined for the Genesee Brewing Company heads down the Erie Canal. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)
“I want our center to touch the life of every University of Rochester undergraduate,” says Joan Shelley Rubin, who was installed as the inaugural Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center in May.