A bittersweet spring for Rochester’s Davis Projects, DAAD RISE winners
It’s a bittersweet spring for the University’s 2020 Davis Projects for Peace and DAAD RISE winners. Fifteen students were selected for the summer programs, which have been canceled.
Ethan Fahnestock ’21 receives Goldwater Scholarship
The national scholarship, which helps cover tuition, room, board, and fees, was authorized by Congress to ensure a continuing source of highly qualified STEM professionals pursuing careers in research.
Grad school interrupted: Students manage remote life while pursuing degrees
Meet eight University of Rochester graduate students whose lives and work have changed dramatically over the last two months.
Fatima Zaidouni ’20 awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
The award will allow the physics and astronomy major to pursue a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in the UK beginning this fall.
140 Rochester students elected to Phi Beta Kappa
The University of Rochester’s newest inductees into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society include 120 seniors and 20 juniors. Another 16 students were elected as juniors last spring.
Student Life Award recipients announced
“Whether our winners are just down the street practicing social distancing or halfway around the world has no bearing on their impact upon the University, their worthiness in receiving the award, or our pride in their many accomplishments.”
Moves protect students and make way for isolation, quarantine areas
Undergraduates who have to remain on campus have moved into separate rooms as part of an effort to reduce the likelihood that they’ll come into contact with coronavirus and to create quarantine and isolation areas if students need that level of care.
How to make a virtual River Campus, one Minecraft cube at a time
A team of Rochester undergraduates is creating a virtual version of campus to go along with the virtual learning that’s under way through online courses.
Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson to speak on River Campus
Dyson is the fourth speaker in the “Difficult Conversations as a Catalyst for Change” lecture series, and is the author or editor of more than 20 books on race and race relations in the United States.
Remember King’s last, somber years
“History converged in a way that called Dr. King forward, and he answered the call,” said Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude Jr., who delivered the University of Rochester’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address. “That can happen with anybody. We don’t need another Martin Luther King. We need every day ordinary people. We are the leaders we’ve been looking for.” (University of Rochester photo / Matt Wittmeyer)