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Society & Culture
January 29, 2018 | 11:47 am

Suffragist Votetilla volunteers win inaugural Community Champion Award

The “Votetilla,” a week-long floating theater of canal boats ferrying reenactors of key suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton along the Eric Canal, was a multi-agency creative partnership that included the Susan B. Anthony Center (SBAC).

topics: awards, Catherine Cerulli, Susan B. Anthony Center, women's suffrage,
Voices & Opinion
January 22, 2018 | 11:42 am

Does it matter if government is dysfunctional?

David Primo, the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Professor and associate professor of political science and business administration at the University of Rochester, sought to put the recent government shutdown into perspective on a guest appearance on NPR.

topics: David Primo, Department of Political Science, government, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
January 19, 2018 | 01:29 pm

Rochester professor part of national campaign finance task force

In a new research report, professor David Primo argues that there’s a disconnect between what the public believe about campaign finance law and the reality, and that many popular reform proposals unlikely to bring the desired results.

topics: David Primo, Department of Political Science, elections, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Science & Technology
January 18, 2018 | 03:29 pm

Rochester team casts light on a hidden problem in domestic violence cases

While existing technology for detecting bruises works well for light-skinned victims, it’s less effective for people of color. An interdisciplinary team at the University of Rochester has set out to change that.

topics: Andrew Berger, Catherine Cerulli, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, diversity, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, interdisciplinary, James Zavislan, John Cullen, research funding, Susan B. Anthony Center,
Society & Culture
January 4, 2018 | 02:58 pm

Looking at urban history as a fight for space, power

Chicago and Delhi. Rome and Rochester. The students in the 100-level course “The City: Contested Spaces” take a virtual tour of them all, while pondering an overarching question—can people’s lives be reshaped by redesigning urban spaces?

topics: Department of Anthropology, Department of Art and Art History, Department of History, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, interdisciplinary, Laura Ackerman Smoller, Llerena Searle, Peter Christensen, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
December 13, 2017 | 01:35 pm

The mysterious aftermath of an infamous pirate raid

Just before dawn on May 18, 1683, pirates stormed the port city of Veracruz, capturing around 1,500 people and selling them to the slave markets of Haiti and South Carolina. Pablo Sierra Silva, assistant professor of history, is on a mission to trace what happened to them.

topics: book authors, featured-post-side, Haiti, History of Rock, Mexico, National Endowment for the Humanities, Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, research finding, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
November 21, 2017 | 01:07 pm

One hundred years of solitude? Try 15 minutes instead

In a series of experiments, Rochester psychologists found that people who sat alone without devices for 15 minutes and chose what to think about experienced the positive effects of solitude: feeling calmer and less anxious, without feeling lonely or sad.

topics: Department of Psychology, Edward Deci, featured-post-side, research finding, Richard Ryan, School of Arts and Sciences, self-determination theory, Thuy-vy Nguyen,
Society & Culture
November 15, 2017 | 09:41 am

East High: Amid change, challenges persist

In this episode of the Quadcast, host Sandra Knispel speaks with members of the East High community to find out how far the school, the students, and the University partnership have come in the last two years.

topics: community, East High School, QuadCast,