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Campus Life
December 20, 2016 | 02:36 pm

On Phi Beta Kappa’s birthday, we honor our own

Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious honor society in the nation for the liberal arts and sciences, turns 240 years old this month. In celebration, the University honors the 13 members of the Class of 2017 who were elected as juniors last May.

topics: Phi Beta Kappa,
people wrapping presents
Campus Life
December 8, 2016 | 04:24 pm

Giving back: A roundup of campus holiday drives

From Thanksgiving through the December holidays, faculty, staff, and students have been giving back to the greater Rochester community, and many are collecting donations in the next couple of weeks.

topics: giving,
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: 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,
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, 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, politics, research finding, Simon Business School,