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University News
October 6, 2021 | 06:01 pm

Holly Crawford to step down in November

Crawford has served as the University’s senior vice president for administration and finance, chief financial officer, and treasurer since 2016.

topics: announcements,
University News
October 3, 2021 | 03:57 pm

Meliora 2021 celebrates Rochester’s resilience

Health and safety were top priorities during the first large event for alumni, students, and families since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

topics: Class of 2020, commencement, events, Meliora Weekend,
In Photos
September 8, 2021 | 05:05 pm

20 years later, remembering September 11

Naval, Air Force, and Army ROTC units stood vigil at the Meridian on the University of Rochester’s Eastman Quad to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Among the nearly 3,000 people who died during the attacks were six University of Rochester alumni: Jeremy Glick ’93; Jean Hoadley Peterson ’69N; Jeffrey Smith ’87, ’88S (MBA); Zhe (Zack) Zeng ’95, ’98S (MBA); Aram Iskenderian ’82; and Brendan Dolan ’86.

In 2019, Ellen Bakalian, the widow of Jeffrey Smith, wrote “Everything My Husband Wasn’t There For,” an essay for The Atlantic, which was reprinted with permission in the summer 2021 issue of Rochester Review.

topics: alumni, NROTC,
Voices & Opinion
September 8, 2021 | 05:03 pm

3 surprising ways COVID-19 has rocked the US labor market

For Rochester economist Lisa Kahn, whose research focuses primarily on labor economics, the past year and a half has been nothing short of astonishing. She explains why.

topics: COVID-19, Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Simon Business School, thought leadership,
Society & Culture
September 7, 2021 | 02:01 pm

Yearlong research project explores social and political nuances of migration in the Americas

Rochester scholars in the humanities and social sciences will study human migration as part of a “temporary research center” supported by a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant.

topics: Daniel Reichman, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, humanities, Humanities Center, Joan Shelley Rubin, migration, research funding, Ruben Flores, School of Arts and Sciences,
In Photos
August 13, 2021 | 04:01 pm

A rite of passage for new medical students

During the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s annual Robert L. & Lillian H. Brent White Coat Ceremony, first-year medical students don brand new white coats to symbolize the start of their journey to becoming medical professionals. This year’s event took place at the Larry and Cindy Bloch Alumni and Advancement Center, with the participants’ health and safety top of mind.

topics: School of Medicine and Dentistry,
In Photos
June 30, 2021 | 05:14 pm

Pipeline program lets East High students experience life in the lab

Lulu Abdullahi (right), a junior at East High School in the Rochester City School District, practices soldering to repair an experiment component with Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. For six weeks, Abdullahi and a classmate visited campus as part of NEUROEAST, a new Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience program.

topics: Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, diversity, education, Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, School of Arts and Sciences,