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group of students at a table eating food and playing games
Campus Life
December 7, 2018 | 02:40 pm

Winter Stay: Everything you need to know

Nearly 600 students stayed on River Campus during winter break last year, and school officials expect that number to increase. Here’s what students need to know to stay active and engaged through January.

topics: announcements, Office for Residential Life and Housing Services,
Symone Sanders
University News
December 7, 2018 | 12:11 pm

Symone Sanders to deliver MLK Commemorative Address

Sanders is a political commentator for CNN and served national press secretary for Senator Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential run, the youngest press secretary for a presidential candidate.

topics: announcements, diversity, events, MLK Commemorative Address, Office of Minority Student Affairs,
Henry Carpender and Beatriz Gil
Campus Life
December 5, 2018 | 02:41 pm

Meet the Students’ Association presidents at the College and Eastman

Henry Carpender ’20, left, and Beatriz Gil ’19 were elected last spring as Students’ Association presidents for the College and the Eastman School of Music.

topics: Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Eastman School of Music, School of Arts and Sciences, Students' Association,
historical photo of three men on the balcony of Rush Rhees Library looking out over a large assembly of men in uniform on the quad
Society & Culture
December 4, 2018 | 11:07 am

December 7, 1941: The University of Rochester at war

In many ways, life on campus would continue as it did before. But the four years following Pearl Harbor would be among the most challenging, heartbreaking, and sobering in University history.

topics: featured-post-side, University Archives, World War II,
phi beta kappa keys
Campus Life
December 4, 2018 | 10:26 am

Celebrating our own as Phi Beta Kappa turns 242

Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor society for liberal arts and sciences. On it’s birthday, we recognize the 13 students named to the Rochester chapter this year.

topics: awards, Phi Beta Kappa,
portrait of Beixi Li
Campus Life
December 3, 2018 | 11:11 am

Rochester graduate student named Schwarzman Scholar

Rochester graduate student Beixi Li is one of 140 students selected worldwide for a one-year fellowship program of immersive study in China. She will focus on public policy and preventative medicine.

topics: awards, China, Department of Public Health Sciences, global engagement, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Schwarzman Scholars,
collage of six portraits of student veterans
Campus Life
November 7, 2018 | 02:19 pm

Making the move from the military to the University

Rochester is currently ranked 13th by US News and World Report in its list of best colleges for veterans. As Veterans Day approaches, six University students from each of the branches of the armed services share their stories of moving from the military to the classroom.

topics: featured-post-side, Veteran and Military Family Services Office, veterans, Veterans Alliance,