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students in dining hall; sign reads DOUGLASS DINING.
Campus & Community
September 27, 2016

‘Reinvented Douglass’ new hub of student life

The Frederick Douglass Building officially re-opens this week after a complete renovation of the iconic 79,000-square-foot space. “I feel like I’m in a different building,” says Laura Ballou ’97, director of the Campus Center.

The Frederick Douglass Building officially re-opens this week after a complete renovation of the iconic 79,000-square-foot space.
topics: Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center,
map of United States showing numbered regions labelled NSF I-Corps Nodes
Science & Technology
September 27, 2016

NSF grant to fund entrepreneurial growth, innovation

An award of $4.2 million from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Program will create a regional hub for research-driven commercialization and leverage the national network of I-Corps Nodes.

topics: Duncan Moore, grant, National Science Foundation,
couple driving in classic car

Murder. Adultery. Theft. Those are three of the themes explored in the 2016 Polish Film Festival. Organized by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the festival is now in its ninth year.

Organized by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the Polish Film Festival is now in its ninth year.
topics: events, Polish Film Festival, School of Arts and Sciences, Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies,

The annual event where many participants wear high heels and fun shoes during a one-mile walk around Ontario Beach Park benefits the Willow Domestic Violence Center. The “Walk A Mile in My Shoes” event coincides with Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.

topics: announcements, Department of Public Safety,
poster for event reads GCEO 2016: ROCHESTER TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF with logos for University of Rochester and RIT

This week’s Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers will bring more than 400 expects from around the world to Rochester to discuss the evolving nature of entrepreneurship and how the centers can make impacts the move their communities forward.

topics: Ain Center for Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, events, global engagement,
child peering over bed
Society & Culture
September 22, 2016

Grant funds STRONGER to help trauma victims

The new project of the Mt. Hope Family Center will provide treatment services for 800 children and adults exposed to a wide array of stress and trauma, and will promote policies for trauma care.

The new project of the Mt. Hope Family Center will provide trauma treatment services for 800 children and adults exposed to a wide array of stressors.
topics: Mt. Hope Family Center, research funding,
man with large computer

When Leslie Valiant delivered his 2011 Turing lecture, “it was one of the most scientifically inspiring speeches I have seen,” says Chen Ding, computer science professor and co-organizer of the 29th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers of Parallel Computing.

topics: Department of Computer Science, events, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
workers lower a piece of a granite sign into place; sign reads EDMUND A. HAJIM SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
In Photos
September 21, 2016

Piece by piece

Workers put the final touches on the engraved wall that will mark the new Science and Engineering Quadrangle. The quad was designed to complement the new Wegmans Hall, and provide more functional public space around the Goergen, Hylan, and Hutchison Halls, and the Computer Studies Building. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

topics: construction, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,