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Two Breaking Boundaries participants play a video game in the Humanities Center.
Society & Culture
April 25, 2017 | 11:42 am

Video games and online games breaking boundaries

At the “Breaking Boundaries: Video Games in Teaching, Learning, Research, and Design” event, students and scholars discussed the impact of video games and online games on learning and culture, while getting a chance to play.

topics: featured-post, Jayne Lammers, Joseph Loporcaro, School of Arts and Sciences, video games, virtual reality, Warner School of Education,
Tommy Evans
Society & Culture
March 22, 2017 | 04:36 pm

‘This is a golden era’ for TV news

Tommy Evans ’99 has combined his eye for photography and his interest in politics into a journalism career that has led him to the post of London bureau chief at CNN International.

topics: alumni, Department of Art and Art History, Department of Political Science, Rochester Review, School of Arts and Sciences,
A mother reads to her child.
Voices & Opinion
February 21, 2017 | 04:02 pm

Nurturing a love for reading

In an op-ed for Fox News, Carol Anne St. George, assistant professor of teaching and curriculum at the Warner School of Education, shares the “compelling reasons for reading aloud to children” as well as tips to make the read-aloud experience enjoyable.

topics: Warner School of Education,
Earth's magnetic field connects the North Pole with the South Pole in this NASA-created image.
Voices & Opinion
February 8, 2017 | 03:52 pm

Earth’s magnetic field—reversing or fluctuating?

For the last 160 years, the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening. In an essay shared on Newsweek, professor John Tarduno explains archaeomagnetism research, in which geophysicists team up with archaeologists to study the effects of these changes.

topics: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, John Tarduno, magnetic field, School of Arts and Sciences,
Voices & Opinion
February 1, 2017 | 04:25 pm

Kocherlakota talks FOMC and wage inflation

On Bloomberg News, Narayana Kocherlakota discusses the Federal Reserve’s most recent decision to leave interest rates unchanged, slack in the labor market, and why he thinks Federal Open Market Committee meetings need reviving.

topics: Department of Economics, Narayana Kocherlakota, School of Arts and Sciences,
3D NASA insignia at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex entryway
Voices & Opinion
December 2, 2016 | 11:17 am

NASA’s historic, crucial role in earth science

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Professor Adam Frank makes the case for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s role in earth-centric science. “Without NASA, climate research worldwide would be hobbled,” he writes.

topics: Adam Frank, Department of Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences, space,
Transparent publicity poster
Society & Culture
November 22, 2016 | 05:58 pm

QuadCast: Transparent actor, producer, academics visit Rochester

Nora Rubel, director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, discusses the upcoming symposium on Transparent which the institute — now in its 30th year — is hosting.

topics: announcements, Center for Jewish Studies, gender, Nora Rubel, QuadCast, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies, television,
Voting booths at the polls
Voices & Opinion
November 14, 2016 | 01:30 pm

Don’t complain that polls were wrong

Professor of Economics and Bloomberg View columnist Narayana Kocherlakota explains the role of polls—and statistical forecasting in general—as part of the U.S. election process.

topics: Department of Economics, Narayana Kocherlakota, politics, School of Arts and Sciences,
Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally.
Voices & Opinion
November 7, 2016 | 01:06 pm

Political scientists nationwide voice concerns about Trump presidency

In an effort spearheaded by Rochester faculty, more than 300 political scientists from across the United States have signed a statement voicing their collective concern about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

topics: Department of Political Science, elections, politics, School of Arts and Sciences,
Mia Alvar reading from "In the Country."
The Arts
October 31, 2016 | 02:01 pm

Author Mia Alvar receives 2016 Kafka Prize

On the 40th anniversary of its inception, the Janet Heininger Kafka Prize recognized a short story collection: Mia Alvar’s In the Country. The University awards the annual prize to a promising but less established American woman writer of fiction.

topics: awards, Department of English, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,