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Gorbunova and Seluanov standing next to each other in lab, looking at camera.

Biologists Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov join colleagues at Brown and NYU in the quest to find potential targets of treatments and therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.

An NIH grant will enable biologists at Rochester, Brown, and NYU to explore relationship between 'junk DNA' and neurodegenerative diseases.

topics: Andrei Seluanov, Department of Biology, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences, Vera Gorbunova,
graphic reads 2022 Presidential Stronger As One Diversity Awards

The recently redesigned Presidential Stronger as One Diversity Awards honor the breadth of excellence within and beyond the University of Rochester community.

The recently redesigned awards honor the breadth of excellence within and beyond the University of Rochester community.

topics: awards, diversity, Office of Equity and Inclusion, staff,
Blurry legs in the foreground of the "Up Against the Wall" exhibit opening panels.

On display at the Memorial Art Gallery through June 19, the first major exhibition of the University’s AIDS Education Posters highlights the role of poster art during the global epidemic.

The first major exhibition of the University of Rochester’s AIDS Education Posters highlights the role of poster art during the epidemic.

topics: events, HIV and AIDS, Memorial Art Gallery, River Campus Libraries,
Researchers looking on at wall-sized, vividly colored screens showing simulations of laser-driven experiments.
Science & Technology
March 14, 2022

Tracing the evolution of galaxy clusters

Petros Tzeferacos, an associate professor of physics and astronomy and a senior scientist at LLE, and colleagues from Chicago and Oxford have replicated in a laboratory setting conditions that exist within galaxy clusters.

Scientists from Rochester, Chicago, and Oxford have replicated in a laboratory setting conditions that exist within galaxy clusters.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Petros Tzeferacos, School of Arts and Sciences,
protester holding a transgender pride flag

Professor Mical Raz argues in the Washington Post that for trans children, their “very existence is at stake” when definitions of neglect and abuse become overly broad.

Professor Mical Raz argues in the Washington Post that for trans children, their “very existence is at stake” when definitions of neglect and abuse become overly broad.

topics: Department of History, Mical Raz, School of Arts and Sciences,
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.

URochester 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.

URochester 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, Matthew Lenoe, School of Arts and Sciences,
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,