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student protester march with signs that read YOUR SILENCE UPHOLDS OPRESSION

About 150 students and supporters marched peacefully across the River Campus on Friday to demand that “the University of Rochester’s administration implement immediate and lasting changes that will reduce intolerable acts of racism that students of color endure at our University.”

topics: douglass leadership house, Joel Seligman,
cyclist on pedestrian bridge

The Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) program recognizes institutions of higher education for promoting and providing a more bikeable campus for students, staff and visitors.

topics: awards, Department of Transportation and Parking Management,
Fountain Court and Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery.

The only instrument of its kind in North America, the full-sized Italian baroque organ at the Memorial Art Gallery is a musical time capsule that was saved from destruction in 2005.

The only instrument of its kind in North America, the full-sized Italian baroque organ at the Memorial Art Gallery is a musical time capsule.

topics: Eastman School of Music, Memorial Art Gallery, performing arts, Rochester Review,
daguerreotypes on a table along with some chemicals in jars

While damage to daguerreotype plates is often visible by eye, evidence of further deterioration may only be detected at the nano level. The University is leading groundbreaking research that bridges the gap between science, history, and the arts.

topics: humanities, nanotechnology, Nicholas Bigelow, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences, URnano,
color guard at Veteran Memorial Grove.
Campus & Community
November 10, 2015

Supporting veterans at Rochester

Many veteran students and their families face unique challenges when navigating both the educational and governmental systems. The University’s Veterans Alliance and Veteran and Military Family Services Office work to provide the support that veteran students, staff, faculty, and families need.

topics: Veteran and Military Family Services Office, Veterans Alliance,
series of circles that list the digits of pi, 3.14159

When most people think about pi, they associate the mathematical constant with arcs and circles. Mathematicians, however, are accustomed to seeing it in a variety of fields. But two University physicists were still surprised to find it lurking in a quantum mechanics formula for the energy states of the hydrogen atom.

topics: Department of Mathematics, featured-post, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,