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Mock Trial returns for third shot at national championships
One of the few completely student-run teams in national competition, the University’s Mock Trial team is ready to return to the American Mock Trial Association’s national championship tournament.
Fools who speak truth to power
Late-night satire may be enjoying a heyday, but fools who speak truth to power are nothing new. In her latest book, professor emerita of history Dorinda Outram looks at how court jesters were much more than just a floppy hat.
Tanya Bakhmetyeva awarded prize for best Catholic biography
Tanya Bakhmetyeva, associate professor of instruction in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, has received the 2018 Harry C. Koenig Book Prize for Mother of the Church: Sophia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France.
Competition supports student community outreach
Now in its third year, the Community Engagement Challenge encourages student organizations to propose a charitable outreach program that benefits the greater Rochester community.
Boar’s Head Dinner goes back to 16th century for one night
Feldman Ballroom in Douglass Commons was transformed into a 16th century English court for the annual Boar’s Head Dinner, a University tradition since 1934. The banquet was inspired by a 16th-century Oxford University legend in which a student walking through the woods was attacked by a wild boar and saved by a fellow scholar who thrust a copy of Aristotle’s work down the boar’s throat.
History under a microscope
The Future(s) of Microhistory symposium brings prominent historians to Rochester to discuss one of the most influential methodologies in their field in the last few decades.
Greek or Treat
The University’s fraternity and sorority communities hosted elementary school students from the Rochester City School District for the seventh annual Greek or Treat event last Friday. About 140 kids visited the River Campus to take part in Halloween-themed events ranging from a doughnut-on-a-string contest to a haunted house and obstacle course.
Elizabeth Poliner receives 2017 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
The annual prize was created in 1976 to recognize American women on the precipice of promising writing careers.
Miriam Kohn ‘17, Chris Perkins ‘17 win Pan-American debate tournament
Kohn and Perkins are the president and vice president, respectively, of the University of Rochester Debate Union, an intercollegiate debate team that competes around the United States and internationally.
Gandhi Institute aims to heal hate with new youth program
This initiative will provide grants of up to $1,000 for 12 local youth teams. “This project is intended to address the root causes of hate and incivility,” says Kit Miller, director of the institute.