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Japanese American family with luggage

An upcoming Humanities Project event reviews the experiences of the more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in remote relocation camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

topics: Department of English, Department of History, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, events, Film and Media Studies Program, humanities, politics, racism, School of Arts and Sciences,
old church with historical monument reading "First Convention for Woman's Rights was held on this corner"
The Arts
October 19, 2016

Celebrating suffrage through song

During a campaign where voters have a choice to elect the first woman president, Rochester’s Women’s Chorus will express women’s suffrage through song at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls.

topics: events,
student walking across elevated bridge walkway with fall trees in background
In Photos
October 19, 2016

From here to there

The new bridge between the Frederick Douglass Building and Rush Rhees Library offers a new path — and a new viewpoint — through the fall campus foliage. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

This fall’s theme reflects a combination of contemporary films and genres that have been selected by students in French classes, focusing on action, biopic, comedy, documentary & drama.

topics: announcements, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, film, Film and Media Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
four men playing guitars and singing into mics on stage

Celebrating a style of music that dominated the 1970s, the University of Rochester’s Institute for Popular Music features an evening of country rock as part of its “In Performance” concert series.

topics: events, humanities, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,
back of baby's head, as baby is held in mother's lap
Society & Culture
October 17, 2016

Building Healthy Children program honors graduates

A group of young mothers have completed a three-year program of the University’s Mt. Hope Family Center that offers early intervention support in their new roles as parents.

topics: announcements, Mt. Hope Family Center, parenting,
chemical structures
Science & Technology
October 14, 2016

Finding needles in chemical haystacks

Chemists have developed a process for identifying new catalysts that will help synthesize drugs more efficiently and more cheaply, by searching libraries for drugs with structure features similar to known catalysts.

topics: Department of Chemistry, drug treatments, Natural Sciences, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,