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Bernard Lafayette
In Photos
February 18, 2014

Visit from a Civil Rights legend

Dr. Bernard “Doc” Lafayette Jr. leads a Kingian nonviolence training session with teens from the Rochester region on Tuesday. Attendees practiced leadership and problem-solving skills and learned to fight racism, as a part of the M.K. Gandhi Institute’s Season for Nonviolence. Co-sponsored by the Office of Admissions, youth also toured campus and connected with admissions counselors.

topics: M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence,
Akan Nelson speaking at a podium
Campus & Community
February 17, 2014

Living black history at Rochester

Student groups across the University are sponsoring performances, lectures, workshops, and other events designed to bring black history alive for today’s students and to build community with others on and off campus.

topics: announcements, Black History Month, douglass leadership house,
Hubble telescope image of the rotten egg nebula
Science & Technology
February 12, 2014

How stellar death can lead to twin celestial jets

How do spherical stars evolve to produce highly aspherical planetary nebulae? A Rochester professor and his undergraduate student have a new theory as to why.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Eric Blackman, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Fanny and William Seward
Society & Culture
February 12, 2014

Grant supports digitizing Seward Family Archive

Spanning the years 1730 to 1917, the William Henry Seward Collection is the largest and most-consulted special collection in Rush Rhees Library.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, grant, politics, rush rhees library, Seward Family Archive,
student actor shouts at camera as water is poured over his head
In Photos
February 10, 2014

An Enemy of the People

Steven Winkelman ’16 as Dr. Thomas Stockmann in the International Theatre Program’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. The play opens in Todd Theatre on Thursday, February 27.

topics: events,
trying to catch a dollar bill
Society & Culture
February 7, 2014

Sorry, cities: No strength in numbers

Urban legislators have long lamented that they do not get their fair share of bills passed in state governments, often blaming rural and suburban interests for blocking their efforts. Now a new study confirms one of those suspicions but surprisingly refutes the other.

topics: Department of Political Science, economy, Gerald Gamm, politics, research finding,