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Elizabeth Stauderman.

Since joining Rochester’s leadership team in 2015, Stauderman has led a “digital-first” approach to the University’s communications efforts.

Since joining Rochester’s leadership team in 2015, Stauderman has led a “digital-first” approach to the University’s communications efforts.Since joining Rochester’s leadership team in 2015, Stauderman has led a “digital-first” approach to the University’s communications efforts.

topics: announcements, University Communications,
Brain with the color, texture, and stitching of a football against a blue background with a repeating pattern of a quarterback outlined in lighter blue.
Voices & Opinion
September 13, 2022

Brain’s cognitive bias dominates in fantasy sports

In fantasy sports, “your brain can twist and interpret fantasy results in ways that are suboptimal, lazy, and illogical,” explains scientist Renee Miller.

A cognitive bias is mental process that can lead to illogical and irrational decisions, which can be a problem for fantasy sports players.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences,
Laurel Lawson hovers above the stage, arms and wheels lifted, supported by Alice Sheppard who partners her from below. Alice is on her back, lifting Laurel, locking eyes and opening her arms in embrace. They are surrounded by small wood ramps and bathed in cool blue light. Laurel is a white dancer with cropped blue hair and Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly hair; their skin, shimmery costumes and chairs reflect the light.

The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

The disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the University of Rochester’s Sloan Performing Arts Center.

topics: diversity, Institute for the Performing Arts, Missy Pfohl Smith, performing arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences, Sloan Performing Arts Center,
Three students in military fatigues stand at ease in front of Rush Rhees Library on the quad, the student in the middle holding an American flag.
In Photos
September 9, 2022

We remember

Midshipmen Charlie Shanks ’24, Nicholas Perry (St. John Fisher ’24), and Miriana Kelly ’26 stand as Rochester’s NROTC unit held its annual vigil at the Meridian on Eastman Quadrangle honoring members of the University community who were killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Among the nearly 3,000 people who died during the attacks were six University of Rochester alumni: Jeremy Glick ’93; Jean Hoadley Peterson ’69N; Jeffrey Smith ’87, ’88S (MBA); Zhe (Zack) Zeng ’95, ’98S (MBA); Aram Iskenderian ’82; and Brendan Dolan ’86. (University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Rochester's NROTC unit held its annual vigil honoring members of the University community who were killed on September 11.

topics: alumni, NROTC,
Three different groups of old-fashioned desks—magenta, yellow, and blue—with letters a, b, and c in brackets over each of the three groups to illustrate grouping theory.
Society & Culture
September 6, 2022

What is the best way to group students?

Rochester researchers have developed a new approach that uses math to determine the best ways to group individuals to maximize learning.

Rochester researchers developed a new mathematical approach to grouping theory that shows how to organize individuals to maximize learning.

topics: Department of Neurology, research finding,
Jericho Brown seated in a red chair in a field of flowers.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jericho Brown will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series.

topics: Department of English, literature, Meliora Weekend, School of Arts and Sciences,

Six Rochester researchers have received the National Science Foundation’s most esteemed recognition for early-career faculty members.

Six University of Rochester researchers have received prestigious NSF awards for early-career faculty members.

topics: awards, community engagement, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Materials Science Program, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Turner Field poster honors #44 Hank Aaron.

Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith penned an essay for the Library of Congress about Milo Hamilton’s memorable home run call.

On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run. Curt Smith wrote an essay about Milo Hamilton’s memorable home run call that day.

topics: Curt Smith, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences,