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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

“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)

For the fourth time in six years, Rochester placed among the nation’s top universities for student Fulbright Grants.

Since 2000, when the late Julian Bond spoke on the River Campus, the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address has been a winter tradition at the University of Rochester, bringing civil rights leaders, activists, poets, and icons to campus.