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faculty and staff wear shirts reading We're Better Than That

For Rochester students like Justin Delinois ’19 the sentiments captured in a University-wide effort to combat racism on campus are more than just four words that fit on a T-shirt.

topics: announcements, racism, We're Better Than That,
Chris Waddell
Campus & Community
March 17, 2016

Paralympian brings lessons of resilience

Legendary skier Chris Waddell, the most decorated paralympian in history—with 13 Paralympic Games medals in sit-skiing and wheelchair track racing—will speak at River Campus on Monday, March 21.

topics: announcements, disabilities,
David Goldfarb
Science & Technology
March 16, 2016

Q&A: Biologist earns raves for work with yeast

LISTEN: David Goldfarb, professor of biology, researches yeast as a model organism for understanding the aging process in humans. Why does this essential ingredient in bread and beer make a good research specimen?

topics: Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences,
image of a baby with a tootbrush features the words A BABY EATING A PIECE OF PAPER?

A team of University and Adobe researchers is outperforming other approaches to creating computer-generated image captions in an international competition. The key to their winning approach? Thinking about words – what they mean and how they fit in a sentence structure – just as much as thinking about the image itself.

topics: data science, Department of Computer Science, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiebo Luo,
Charles Blow

Charles Blow, New York Times columnist and CNN commentator, read from his memoir, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, yesterday evening in the Hawkins-Carlson Room in Rush Rhees Library. “This book is about remembering, against all that this world may signal to the contrary, that you are not forever broken,” he said. “You are capable of giving and receiving love, and you are deserving of it.

topics: David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity, events, Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies, Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center,
Bob Witmer and Joel Seligman

The Witmers’ decision to create the endowed professorship is rooted in a desire to help provide a strong finish for The Meliora Challenge, which has raised more than $1.3 billion and ends on June 30.

topics: announcements, board of trustees, Joel Seligman, professorships,
observatory and a starry night sky
Science & Technology
March 4, 2016

Rochester scientist discovers new comet

David Cameron, a visiting scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has discovered a new comet – the first to be discovered by an astronomer associated with the University or with the Rochester area in over a century, his colleagues believe.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,