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Hosted by the Gwen M. Greene Career & Internship Center, the awards honor student organizations and partners who exemplify the center’s values—respect, collaboration, diversity and inclusion, betterment, and purpose.

topics: awards, Gwen M. Greene Career and Internship Center,
two people skydiving while making faces and flashing a thumbs up

For those suffering from dysphoria­—general unhappiness or elevated depressive symptoms—a Rochester study has found that experiencing or even just anticipating uplifting events in daily life was related to feeling less depressed that same day.

topics: Department of Psychology, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
professor reading poetry in front of blackboard

Pultizer Prize–winning poet Anthony Hecht was on the Rochester faculty for nearly two decades, arriving in 1967. Alumnus Jonathan Post ’76 (PhD) published Hecht’s correspondence in a book that sheds new light on his poetry.

topics: Department of English, literature, poetry, Rochester Review, School of Arts and Sciences,
portrait of two students

Daria Lynch ’18 (T5 ’19), a history major, and Christian Wooddell ’17, an anthropology major, will be heading overseas this summer as part of the U.S. State Department program.

topics: awards, China, Critical Language Scholarships, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, global engagement,
drum set features the logo for the band Yes

Friday’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will welcome one of the most musically diverse class ever. John Covach, director of the University’s Institute of Popular Music, walks us through this year’s inductees and—with the help of his guitar—the Yes hit Roundabout.

topics: Institute for Popular Music, John Covach,
historic image of soldiers lined up to drill
Society & Culture
April 5, 2017

Why did the US enter World War I?

On April 6, 1917, Congress voted to declare war on Germany, joining the bloody battle—then optimistically called the “Great War.” Rochester political scientist Hein Goemans explains why Germany was willing to risk American entry into the war.

topics: Department of Political Science, Hein Goemans, School of Arts and Sciences,
child with hand in cookie jar

A new study shows that early experiences of environmental harshness, in combination with personal temperament, can shape the child’s problem-solving abilities later in life.

topics: child development, Melissa Sturge-Apple, Mt. Hope Family Center, research finding,
book of William Shakespeare with smartphone peaking out behind it
The Arts
April 4, 2017

Poetry in the age of the tweet

Can poetry thrive in an age of instant communication? As April’s National Poetry Month begins, University’s poetry faculty and students have found that the answer is an emphatic “yes.” The pace of digital life has only quickened over the last ten years since Twitter was founded, but the slower process of reading and crafting poetry continues, robustly, at Rochester.

topics: Department of English, featured-post-side, James Longenbach, Jennifer Grotz, Kenneth Gross, literature, poetry, School of Arts and Sciences,

Students enrolled in a new course in Food Justice & Social Practice combine urban farming, food security, and socially engaged art.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Environmental Humanities Program, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, School of Arts and Sciences, sustainability,