Research-backed ways to bridge America’s political divide
International researchers, among them two Rochester experts, successfully tested 25 different approaches to reducing partisan animosity and support for undemocratic practices or political violence. Two proved most effective.
When someone flirts with your spouse, does that make your partner more attractive?
The simplified formula of “more attention equals more desire” doesn’t seem to apply to established relationships.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang: A Nobel Prize, a Rochester press, and a translation controversy
The latest Nobel Prize in Literature laureate has unexpected ties to the University’s literary translation press.
On thinning ice
A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.
Taking the temperature of American democracy
An interview with political scientist James Druckman, an expert on American democracy and polarization.
NATO at 75—powerful and necessary, or costly and obsolete?
Created as a counterweight to the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, the military alliance may be more important now than ever. Political scientist Randall Stones explains why.
Baitullah Hameedi: Escaping the Taliban
An Afghan scholar and refugee conducts research at the University of Rochester.
Dmitry Bykov: Satirizing Putin
The Russian poet, journalist, and literary critic is teaching and lecturing at Rochester as part of the Humanities Center’s Scholar in Exile program.
That’s not Native American art. Or is it?
A Rochester art historian on the proliferation of indigenous fakes and replicas—and the blurry line between appropriation and admiration.
Michael Jensen ‘transformed the way we perceive and practice economics’
His pioneering research on organizational theory, started at Rochester, has left an enduring mark on the academic and business worlds.