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Summer Sustainability Fellows asked Rochester resident to complete a climate change survey.
Campus Life
July 18, 2018 | 01:10 pm

Hot town, Summer Sustainability Fellows in the city

How will climate change affect the health and well-being of City of Rochester residents? This summer, students in a new sustainability fellowship program worked with city officials to help answer the question.

topics: Arts Sciences and Engineering, climate change, community, Department of Environmental Medicine, Katrina Korfmacher, public health, sustainability,
Campus Life
May 11, 2018 | 01:13 pm

A local polyglot prepares to globe-trot

Rochester native Cherish Blackman has always had a knack for languages. “I wanted to study languages that weren’t very close to English,” she recalls. The double major in Russian and East Asian studies is heading to China next year, but is bringing her Spanish books with her.

topics: Class of 2018, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
March 29, 2018 | 02:38 pm

The myth—and memorabilia—of Seward’s Folly

Several generations after the purchase of Alaska on March 30, 1867, the William Henry Seward Papers at the University of Rochester show the supposed folly to be a shrewd bargain.

topics: Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, River Campus Libraries,
still from a video shows a doctor sitting in an office setting
Science & Technology
February 13, 2018 | 01:13 pm

Virtual reality app offers personalized psychotherapy

A multidisciplinary team of University doctors, engineers, and musicians is working together to create an immersive, customized experience that brings cognitive-behavioral therapy to a patient’s smartphone.

topics: augmented reality, data science, Department of Psychiatry, Eastman School of Music, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Jiebo Luo, mental health, mobile app, virtual reality,
woman wearing virtual reality goggles in front of a computer screen showing an image of a brain
Science & Technology
February 13, 2018 | 12:40 pm

Training brains—young and old, sick and healthy—with virtual reality

Rochester researchers are using virtual reality-based brain training to better understand the brain’s plasticity in athletes who have experienced concussions and older adults with mild cognitive impairments. The goal? Improved therapeutic treatments patients can do at home.

topics: augmented reality, brain injury, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Duje Tadin, featured-post-side, interdisciplinary, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Nursing, video games, virtual reality,
groundhog eating flowers
Campus Life
February 1, 2018 | 02:49 pm

Happy Marmota monax Day

Groundhogs, also known as woodchucks, have entrenched themselves in the environment and culture of the University. To mark Groundhog Day this year, here are three things you might not know about our furry cohabitants at Rochester.

detail from a letter from Susan B. Anthony
Society & Culture
January 22, 2018 | 11:58 am

Can you read my handwriting?

We dug into our special collections to highlight a sampling of hand lettering, from ancient hieroglyphs to modern conscripts.

topics: Department of English, Department of Linguistics, Department of Rare Books Special Collections and Preservation, Memorial Art Gallery, School of Arts and Sciences,
Rochester skyline
Society & Culture
October 2, 2017 | 01:31 pm

Engaging the Rochester community in research

When we think of research, many of us picture test tubes in a laboratory or manuscripts in a library. But some research projects—especially in the fields of health, education, and the social sciences—involve people as they go about their daily lives. How, then, can the University conduct community-engaged projects that are effective, evidence-based, and sustainable? Rochester students, researchers, and community members explored this question as part of the fifth annual Community Engagement Symposium.

topics: community, Department of Public Health Sciences, featured-post-side, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, public health,
Three female Simon Business School graduates
Voices & Opinion
August 26, 2017 | 08:14 am

How business schools can help women attain leadership roles

Women’s Equality Day annually marks the adoption of the 19th Amendment. But nearly one hundred years later, “women are far from equally represented in corporate leadership ranks,” writes Rebekah Lewin, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid at the Simon Business School.

topics: Simon Business School, women's rights,