Jim Mandelaro

Rochester’s latest members of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society will be formally inducted in a noon ceremony on Saturday.

Four undergraduates and two graduate students have been selected to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, providing support for US students pursuing graduate degrees in STEM fields.

Two recent Rochester graduates are among 92 students chosen worldwide to be Gates Cambridge Scholars—the most prestigious international postgraduate scholarship offered by the University of Cambridge.

Luke Meyerson ’18 and Blake Harriman ’16, ’18W (MS) — student workers in the Department of Political Science and the Medical Center's Edward G. Miner Library, respectively — are 2018 student employees of the year.

Sixteen University of Rochester students, the largest contingent from North America, will work at German research institutes this summer through the highly competitive DAAD RISE scholarship program.

The Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections honored student, faculty, and alumni partners who exemplify the Greene Center’s values—respect, collaboration, diversity and inclusion, betterment, and purpose.

The University's annual Diversity Conference kicks off a day of discussion with a keynote address from CNN political analyst Ana Navarro.

John Cole ’19 will study Mandarin Chinese in Xi’an, China; Joy Nicholas ’19 will study Swahili in Arusha, Tanzania; and Jacqueline Tran ’18 will study Arabic in Amman, Jordan as part of the US State Department's scholarship program.

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., the University will join others across the nation who will ring their bells in tribute.

On this annual observance by the United Nations, We're Better Than That—the University's anti-racism committee comprised of students, faculty, and staff—will sponsor a panel discussion and invite members of the community to sign a pledge to fight racism.

John Barker ‘09W (PhD) says his goals for higher education have always included three tenets: “access, equity, and social justice for all.” As of March 1, he is fulfilling those missions in the newly created role as senior associate dean of the faculty for Arts, Sciences & Engineering.

Thirteen students and recent alumni are semifinalists in the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program, and this is the second year in a row that the University of Rochester has been designated a Fulbright “top producer.”