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The inaugural First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival starts today at various Rochester locations, including the Eastman School. Want to get involved? Participants are wanted for the “UR Dances” flash mob.
The River Campus Libraries have released a new homepage that offers a new look, a new discovery resource for Articles & Books, and a new face to the Voyager Catalog.
Check out a performance by comedian Craig Ferguson on Friday, Oct. 12, enjoy the Celebration of Diversity luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 13, sign up for the Presidential Symposium on “The Humanities, Artistic Expression, and the Digital Age: Innovation and Opportunities” on Oct. 13, or attend one of the many other programs and activities scheduled throughout Meliora Weekend, Oct. 11–14.
Erin Taylor, assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University, will present “Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis and the Non-Identity Problem” from noon to 1 p.m. in K-207 (2-6408), Medical Center.
The Vanessa Mangione Quartet (above) — all graduates of the Eastman School of Music — are among the performers at Rochester’s first-ever Fringe Festival, which opened on Wednesday. University students, faculty, and alumni are among the more than 200 performances scheduled for the five-day fest.
The $630,000 Champalimaud Award goes to Professor David Williams for his work on adaptive optics technologies.
A new online archive of the Post Family Papers reveals a Rochester family at the center of the abolition, woman’s suffrage, and temperance movements of the 1800s.
Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have found that naturally occurring bacteria that exist in the Gulf of Mexico consumed and removed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.
Navy ROTC students from the University along with Air Force ROTC members from local battalions held a small vigil on the Eastman Quadrangle to remember and honor those lost to the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy.
Beginning fall 2012, the University of Rochester Admissions Office will become “test flexible,” allowing applicants to the undergraduate College of Arts, Sciences & Engineering to submit any national or international test result along with their secondary school records of courses and grades.