Literacy expert wants to help children fall in love with reading
This Valentine’s Day, Warner School of Education professor Carol Anne St. George shares tips with parents to help make reading aloud with children an act of love.
Three Eastman School of Music graduates are Grammy winners
Sean D. Connors (BM 04) is a member of the ensemble Third Coast Percussion, which won the Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance, and Goeff Saunders (BM 09), a double bassist, is a member of the O’Connor Band, which won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
Evidence points to fish oil to fight asthma
Medical Center scientists have found that the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil can reduce the production of antibodies that cause allergic reactions and asthma symptoms in people with milder cases of asthma.
Maquat receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Science from International RNA Society
Lynne E. Maquat, the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, has spent her career unraveling what happens in our cells during disease.
JACK Quartet returns to Eastman to headline new music concert
The New York City-based JACK Quartet returns to their alma present a concert with OSSIA New Music and Musica Nova celebrating the 20th anniversary of Eastman’s student-run new music collective, OSSIA.
URMC drug extends effectiveness of HIV therapy
A new study shows that a drug developed at the Medical Center extends the effectiveness of multiple HIV therapies, and could lead the way to long-acting HIV drugs that could be administered once or twice per year, rather than daily.
President, Provost, and Medical Center CEO statement on immigration orders
Statement from President Joel Seligman, Provost and Senior Vice President for Research Robert L. Clark, and CEO of the Medical Center and UR Medicine, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Mark Taubman.
UR is college squash’s top-ranked team
For the first time in the 59-year history of the squash program at the University of Rochester, the Yellowjackets have achieved a #1 ranking in the latest College Squash Association (CSA), released on Friday.
Tantalized by tessellations
Mathematician Doris Schattschneider ’61 explores the complex geometry of artist M. C. Escher, as an exhibit devoted to his work wraps up this weekend at the Memorial Art Gallery.
URMC awarded up to $9M to study infectious threats
The grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention renews the University’s role as a member of the Emerging Infections Program, a national network that monitors several infectious threats and conducts studies that guide policy related to prevention and treatment.