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Tamuda Chimhanda holds up a business card with the Rochester Alumni Ambassadors logo on it.
Campus Life
April 17, 2025 | 07:58 am

How a campus start-up is reinventing the networking experience

Four Rochester students and one alumnus developed a start-up venture called Penpal, a digital business card to help students network.

topics: Ain Center for Entrepreneurship, alumni, Class of 2022, Class of 2026, Simon Business School, Undergraduate Program in Digital Media Studies,
Photo of Lea Thome in a layout that shows the University of Rochester "spirit R" and says "alumni . . . connections: Lea Thome '22, political science."
Campus Life
April 4, 2025 | 04:08 pm

Lea Thome ’22: A global citizen helps shape global policy

At Rochester, the German native forged her path to a career analyzing international relations in an interconnected world.

topics: alumni, Class of 2022, Department of Political Science, global engagement, Hein Goemans, Randall Stone, School of Arts and Sciences, videos,
Detail of Luther Henderson's original score of his arrangement of a Duke Ellington classic.
From the Magazine
December 1, 2024 | 08:00 am

Eastman scores

Luther Henderson III ’71E, ’73E (MM) chooses Eastman’s Ensemble Library as home for his father’s Duke Ellington arrangements.

topics: alumni, Department of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media, Eastman School of Music,
Colorful, stylized illustration of Karen Durkin, who reflects on the role of women's sports in her life, career, and society at large.
From the Magazine
December 1, 2024 | 08:00 am

A ‘boom’ in women’s sports

Karen Durkin ’87 reflects on how women’s sports became big business. 

topics: alumni, Arthur Satz Department of Music, Athletics and Recreation, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences,