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From rock ‘n’ roll to pop and hip hop, popular music may be, well, popular. But it is rarely understood as a musical form. Now that’s about to change. The new Institute for Popular Music, led by founding director John Covach, will treat the study of popular genres as seriously as classical music.
Rochester researchers are part of a collaboration named in Physics World magazine’s list of top 10 breakthroughs for 2012. The group was chosen for being the first to demonstrate communications using neutrinos – nearly massless particles that travel at almost the speed of light.
Norris has served as the University’s senior legal counsel the University for all aspects of operations, including litigation management, risk management, business and tax matters, and conflicts of interest since 2005.
Teams will explore the topic of aging—working to solve issues like getting around, keeping in touch, and staying fit.
Eleven undergraduate members of the University of Rochester’s all-female a cappella group Vocal Point have been invited to the White House to perform classic and contemporary holiday songs on the morning of Saturday, Dec. 8.
Mavrinac is a recognized leader in the creation of inspiring learning spaces and the development of digital services.
A political analyst and professor of political science at Tulane University, Harris-Perry’s address will focus on racial issues, religious questions, and gender concerns related to American politics.
Selected from a pool of 1,509, the press was awarded $45,000 to support the promotion of books in translation and the continuation of the translation centric website, Three Percent.
If you think having your phone identify the nearest bus stop is cool, wait until it identifies your mood. Rochester engineers are developing a new computer program that gauges human feelings through speech, with substantially greater accuracy than existing approaches.
Blind mole rats and naked mole rats—both subterranean rodents with long life spans—are the only mammals never known to develop cancer. Biology professors Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov have discovered the separate mechanisms that cause these two species to be cancer-free, and those discoveries could lead to new cancer therapies in humans.