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Nurses in Palestra attend to students on cots at blood drive.
Society & Culture
December 7, 2016 | 12:45 pm

Pearl Harbor: When war came to campus

On December 7, 1941, the lives of Rochester faculty and students were immediately changed, and a sleepy campus by the Genesee River was transformed into a vital hub for the war effort.

topics: Alan Valentine, Institute of Optics, University Archives, World War II,
Campus Life
December 1, 2016 | 03:27 pm

Junior coordinates book drive for Rwandan students

Ian Manzi ’18 is organizing an online registry to purchase 77 books written in English for the Family Library at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, in an effort to educate high schoolers in his native country.

topics: announcements, high school students, Ian Manzi,
man sitting outdoors typing
Campus Life
November 4, 2016 | 03:34 pm

’There really is a story for everyone‘

As a PhD candidate in biophysics, Karl Smith studies glass filters 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. But his “hidden passion” is crafting stories on demand on his 1926 Underwood typewriter for 10 cents each.

topics: featured-post, Memorial Art Gallery,
professor in front of class
Campus Life
November 4, 2016 | 09:44 am

American Elections class zeroes in on Clinton, Trump matchup

As a freshman, Skylar Cerbone ’20 normally wouldn’t take Lynda Powell’s intermediate course, American Elections, this fall. But Cerbone didn’t want to wait. “It’s a presidential election year,” the political science major says. “I had to take this class now. It’s too important not to.”

topics: Department of Political Science, elections, Lynda Powell, politics, School of Arts and Sciences,
illustration of chart going up, with image from famous 1964 Daisy ad
Society & Culture
November 3, 2016 | 11:49 am

When campaign ads go low, it often works

“Negative campaigning has been around as long as campaigning,” says Simon Business School professor Mitchell Lovett. “It stays around because it works.”

topics: elections, Mitchell Lovett, politics, research finding, Simon Business School,
coffee
Campus Life
October 19, 2016 | 03:53 pm

University sponsoring community-focused lecture series

A new lecture and community conversation series, to be held at Brue Coffee on Genesee Street, aims to bring students and the community together for topical conversation.

topics: announcements, Office for Residential Life and Housing Services,
Bob Dylan
The Arts
October 13, 2016 | 07:42 am

6 stops on Bob Dylan’s rise to the top

His first album was a flop. He was loved in the United Kingdom before the United States. As people around the world start to celebrate Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday, rock historian John Covach, director of Rochester’s Institute for Popular Music, identifies six stops along the artist’s turbulent rise to the top in the 1960s.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,