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Two women and a man stand with their bicycles in the year 1897

Bike culture in Victorian Rochester has been beautifully captured in the May Bragdon Diaries Project, an online resource curated and hosted by River Campus Libraries.

May Bragdon Diaries Project is an online resource presenting the life of a single working woman set free by the bicycle and photography.
topics: events, River Campus Libraries,
frame of a bridge with construction vehicles and workers around
In Photos
July 29, 2016

Building bridges

A pedestrian bridge linking Rush Rhees Library with the Frederick Douglass Building is one of the renovations under construction on River Campus this summer. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster)

topics: construction, rush rhees library,
group portrait of students

Nineteen University students and recent graduates were recognized for their community service. Projects this year ranged from expanding literacy programs to increasing access to medical care for underserved individuals.

Nineteen students were recognized for their community service projects ranging from expanding literacy programs to increasing access to medical care.
topics: community, Rochester Center for Community Leadership,
two students in a lab

From data mining with Instagram to preserving Peruvian cathedrals, from laser beams to hearing loss — Rochester undergraduates get their first taste of life in the lab through the Xerox Engineering Research Fellows program.

Rochester undergraduates get their first taste of life in the lab through the Xerox Engineering Research Fellows program.
topics: Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, undergraduate research,
Society & Culture
July 22, 2016

New book brings shadow into the light

A new book, edited by Kenneth Gross and compiled from lectures by the late John Hollander, traces shadow’s literary history from ancient to modern times.

topics: announcements, book authors, Department of English, humanities, Kenneth Gross, School of Arts and Sciences,
tray of historical political buttons

Buttons, bumper stickers, photographs, and video footage ranging from the era of Franklin Delano Roosevelt through John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton, housed in the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, bring historical political campaigns to life.

topics: announcements, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, elections, politics, rush rhees library,
painting of a family in the mid-19th century around a dinner table

Susan Gustafson’s recently published book examines Johann Goethe’s depiction of family in his literary works, which were cutting-edge compared to the actual state of marriage and family in early 19th-century Germany.

topics: book authors, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, humanities, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Young East High students

A $1.2 million Talent Search grant from the U.S. Department of Education will enable academic services for upwards of 500 RCSD students each year via College Prep Centers at East High School and Vanguard Collegiate High School.

topics: David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity, grant,
Melissa Sturge-Apple

As dean of graduate studies, Sturge-Apple will continue to strengthen and grow graduate programs, and provide cohesion for graduate studies so that master’s and doctoral students have a strong connection to AS&E.

topics: announcements, Arts Sciences and Engineering, Melissa Sturge-Apple,