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May 1, 2024 | 01:28 pm

Show us your town: Tokyo

Entrepreneur Yohay Wakabayashi ’10, ’11S (MS) shares some of his favorite things to do in one of the world’s top destinations for culture and cuisine.

topics: alumni, global engagement, School of Arts and Sciences, Simon Business School,
The Arts
August 31, 2021 | 05:06 pm

Sloan Performing Arts Center opens on the River Campus

The 30,000-square-foot dedicated performing arts space had its soft opening at the end of August, adding a much-anticipated new building to the University of Rochester’s River Campus in time for the fall semester.

topics: featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, performing arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences, Sloan Performing Arts Center,
Society & Culture
May 14, 2019 | 12:11 pm

University to receive Louise Slaughter Congressional collection

The family of Louise and Bob Slaughter is donating the late congresswoman’s official papers to the University of Rochester. River Campus Libraries will house, archive, and make available the Louise M. Slaughter Congressional Collection in the coming years.

topics: announcements, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, featured-post-side, New York congressional delegation, River Campus Libraries,
University News
October 3, 2018 | 12:58 pm

$2.5M pledge launches campaign for new Center for Jewish Life

David Greenbaum ’73 and his wife, Laureine, of New York City, have pledged $2.5 million toward the construction of a new 6,500-square-foot building on the University of Rochester’s River Campus to be named the Greenbaum Center for Jewish Life.

topics: announcements, gift,
University News
May 11, 2018 | 04:45 am

Headliners for Meliora Weekend 2018 announced

Soledad O’Brien, award-winning journalist, speaker, and author, will be the keynote speaker for the University of Rochester’s 18th Meliora Weekend, which runs October 4–7, 2018. Registration begins at noon on Wednesday, July 25.

topics: events, Meliora Weekend,
University News
December 8, 2017 | 04:34 pm

Two University researchers each receive $1.5 million grants

Chunlei Guo, with the Institute of Optics, and Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, with the Department of Pediatrics, were recently awarded separate $1.5 million grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest Gates Foundation grants ever awarded in the University’s history.

topics: awards, Chunlei Guo, Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Optics, Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, Medical Center, research funding,
University News
November 7, 2017 | 02:20 pm

‘We each have great capacity to learn, grow, and work together’

Tiffany Taylor Smith ’91, the new executive director for inclusive excellence education and professional development at the University of Dayton, discusses the importance of diversity and the impact of her time in Rochester.

topics: alumni, diversity, Rochester Review,