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Fatou Jobe, who is translating Wolof fables into English, wears bright green while looking off camera in a library entryway.

Fatoumatta Jobe is transcribing in Wolof—and then translating into English—centuries-old stories passed down orally.

A University of Rochester undergraduate is transcribing in Wolof—and translating into English—centuries-old stories passed down orally.

topics: Class of 2023, Department of English, featured-post-side, global engagement, Kenneth Gross, School of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate research,
Becker, smiling and gliding across ice rink in Sabres uniform, mounted on hockey sled.
Campus & Community
March 21, 2023

Sam Becker ’25 reaches a sled hockey milestone

The optics major, a bone cancer survivor, is a member of the Buffalo Sabres and the US Men’s Development sled hockey teams.

The University of Rochester student earns a spot on the US sled hockey development team, bringing the Paralympic Games within reach.

topics: Class of 2025, diversity, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics,
Exterior view of Todd Union at dusk.
Campus & Community
March 20, 2023

Todd Union earns historic designation

The Georgian Revival Building, constructed in 1930, was a student center and the birthplace of the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front.

Constructed in 1930, Todd Union was a student center and the birthplace of the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front.

topics: diversity, featured-post-side,
Father holds a phone and embraces his child, who has just learned her Match Day 2023 placement.
In Photos
March 17, 2023

Medical students meet their match

Each year on Match Day, fourth-year medical students across the United States find out where they’ll be spending the next four years for their residencies. At the University of Rochester, tears of joy and cheers of celebration filled the room where the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Class of 2023 discovered what the future holds. Among them was Indigo Gill, who matched with the University of California–San Francisco for family medicine, surrounded by loved ones, including her father, Saeeda Gill. Learn more about Match Day 2023 at Rochester.

At the University of Rochester, the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Class of 2023 learned what their professional futures hold for them.

topics: Class of 2023, School of Medicine and Dentistry,
Drone photo of the Eastman Quadrangle at the University of Rochester in the fall with the city of Rochester skyline in the upper left-hand corner.

Financial aid funding in the College is rising by 8.6 percent to nearly $153 million in institutional grants and scholarships.

Financial aid for students in the College at the University of Rochester is rising by 8.6 percent to nearly $153 million in institutional funding.

topics: admissions, financial aid,
Screenshot of Black actress Tina Lifford, wearing a colorful head wrap and standing in profile against a bright blue wall.

A Rochester research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.

A Rochester team is working to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.

topics: Department of English, digital humanities, film, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, humanities, research funding, River Campus Libraries,
Black and white archival photo of Russell Peck holding a book and teaching in front of a classroom full of students.

English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.

Colleagues, friends, and family remember eminent University of Rochester medievalist and English professor Russell Peck.

topics: Department of English, International Theatre Program, obituaries, Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Russell Peck, School of Arts and Sciences,
Pair of feet ascends steps, with each step represented as a check-box.

Dean of undergraduate admissions Robert Alexander offers a checklist for college-bound high school juniors.

The University of Rochester dean of undergraduate admissions offers a checklist for high school juniors applying to college.

topics: Robert Alexander, thought leadership,
White text reads "Faculty Awards" against a blue-colored background image of architectural detail featuring an ironwork owl and vines.

Optica, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gruber Foundation, and other organizations are among those bestowing recent honors on Rochester faculty.

Optica, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other organizations are among those bestowing recent honors on University of Rochester faculty.

topics: awards, faculty, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences,