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.

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, 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.

Now in its third year, the Community Engagement Challenge encourages student organizations to propose a charitable outreach program that benefits the greater Rochester community.

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.

The annual prize was created in 1976 to recognize American women on the precipice of promising writing careers.

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.

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.

The student organization provides health care services to low-income members of the greater Rochester community, and is the inaugural winner of this challenge grant.

The comedian and CNN host tops a week of events sponsored by the University’s ‘We’re Better Than That’ anti-racism campaign and the Student Programming Board.