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protester wearing a covid face mask holding a sign in Ukrainian colors that reads STOP WAR
Society & Culture
March 9, 2022

How to end the war in Ukraine

Rochester political scientist Hein Goemans, an expert on war termination, applies possible scenarios to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Rochester political scientist Hein Goemans, an expert on war termination, applies possible scenarios to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

topics: Department of Political Science, Hein Goemans, School of Arts and Sciences, thought leadership,
white eels shaped like a circle on a black background
Science & Technology
March 7, 2022

WATCH: Vinegar eels ‘do the wave’

This never-before-seen style of collective motion isn’t the only finding that surprised Rochester researchers about the organisms.

This never-before-seen style of collective motion isn’t the only finding that surprised Rochester researchers about the organisms.

topics: Alice Quillen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Rush Rhees Library and the Eastman Quadrangle in the fall.

The Board of Trustees has approved tuition rates, room and board fees, and financial aid increases for the next academic year.

The Board of Trustees has approved tuition rates, room and board fees, and financial aid increases for the 2022–23 academic year.

topics: financial aid, quality education, the college, tuition,
protesters holding signs, viewed through a Ukrainian flag.

Rochester historian Matthew Lenoe explains how Ukraine’s history is intertwined with Russia’s—but also with that of many other nations, empires, ethnicities, and religions.

Rochester historian explains how Ukraine history is complicated and intertwined with many other nations, empires, ethnicities and religions.

topics: Department of History, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, featured-post, Matthew Lenoe, School of Arts and Sciences, thought leadership,
illustration of a dozen or so people traversing an open space, some in shadow requiring trigger warnings.

A Rochester expert sheds light on the underrecognized challenges faced by college students recovering from trauma, and answers questions on the real meaning of trigger warnings.

University of Rochester expert on the challenges faced by students recovering from trauma and the real meaning of trigger warnings.

topics: research finding, Warner School of Education,
Crop of book cover for Everything I Don't Know.

Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.

Professor Jennifer Grotz co-translated poems by Jerzy Ficowski, and Open Letter published its first poetry book translated from the Korean.

topics: awards, Department of English, humanities, Jennifer Grotz, literary translation, literature, Open Letter, School of Arts and Sciences,
Close-up of anti-Putin rally sign with people in the background holding signs with the Ukraine flag's colors.
Society & Culture
February 25, 2022

Why does Russia want Ukraine?

Political scientist Hein Goemans, Rochester’s expert on international conflicts, explains why Ukraine’s fate might be tied to Putin’s survival.

A University of Rochester expert on international conflicts explains some of the reasons behind Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine.

topics: Department of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences, thought leadership,
Judith Pipher.

The professor emerita, known as the ‘mother of infrared astronomy,’ had a profound impact on research into astronomical phenomena and the origins of the universe and was a pioneer for women in science.

The professor emerita, known as the ‘mother of infrared astronomy,’ had a profound impact on research into the origins of the universe.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, faculty, obituaries, School of Arts and Sciences,
Illustration of workers in lab coats along an assembly line analyzing cancer-fighting micheliolide analogs in nanoparticles.

An internal funding program, plus the close proximity of the University’s engineering and medical facilities, promotes progress in a potential treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.

University of Rochester scientists report progress in targeting and destroying leukemic stem cells with a modified form of micheliolide.

topics: Danielle Benoit, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, research finding, research funding, Rudi Fasan, Wilmot Cancer Institute,
Female optics PhD student with a quantitative phase microscope.

Two new awards will help the University of Rochester address a pressing need for highly trained PhD graduates and prepare a more diverse pipeline of optics professionals.

Two new awards supporting graduate students will help the University of Rochester prepare a more diverse pipeline of optics professionals.

topics: featured-post-side, grant, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, quality education,