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The Arts
January 19, 2017

Inspired by—and through—dance

The Program of Dance and Movement’s seventh annual inspireDANCE Festival features six days of master classes, workshops, and performances. This year’s headliner is Dance Heginbotham, a rising contemporary dance company from New York City.

topics: events, featured-post-side, inspireDANCE Festival, Program of Dance and Movement,
table full of awards and photo of Susan B. Anthony

Save the date for this year’s ceremony, Saturday, February 4. Eight undergraduates will be saluted for their contributions to the University and local community, and this year’s Frederick Douglass Medal will also be presented to community leader Connie Mitchell.

topics: awards, Frederick Douglass Medal, Susan B. Anthony Center,
news clipping featuring Connie Mitchell

Constance (Connie) Mitchell, one of Rochester history’s most influential social, civic, political and industrial activists, is being recognized for outstanding civic engagement at this year’s Susan B. Anthony Legacy Awards Celebration brunch on Feb. 4.

topics: announcements, awards, Frederick Douglass Medal, Susan B. Anthony Center,
Richard Feldman

Feldman, who has served as dean of the College for the past decade, is also a professor of philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences and will be returning to the philosophy department following a year of leave in the 2017-18 academic year.

topics: announcements, Department of Philosophy, Richard Feldman, School of Arts and Sciences,
images showing an array of colored dots

University researchers show that primates — like humans — have the ability to distinguish between large and small quantities of objects, irrespective of the surface area those objects occupy.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post-side, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,

Author Joy DeGruy, who will deliver this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address, is the latest in a long line of exceptional luminaries in the civil rights field to speak at…

topics: events, Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address,