Health Care History Through Humor
Theodore Brown, a historian of medicine, public health, and health policy at the University of Rochester, provides the historical context for each cartoon and authored introductory chapters on early health care reform efforts.
Brain’s Desire for Clarity Shapes Language
Many changes to language are simply the brain’s way of ensuring that communication is as precise and concise as possible.
Archive Captures 40 Years of the Gay Rights
When the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971, they knew that distributing a newspaper advocating “the freedom to love” same-sex partners was a radical act.
Concert to Celebrate Composer Karol Szymanowski
Music and writings of Karol Szymanowski will be featured in a concert commemorating the 130th anniversary of the composer’s birthday and 75th anniversary of his death on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Excitement Builds as Fringe Festival Opens
The Vanessa Mangione Quartet (above) — all graduates of the Eastman School of Music — are among the performers at Rochester’s first-ever Fringe Festival, which opened on Wednesday. University students, faculty, and alumni are among the more than 200 performances scheduled for the five-day fest.
Williams awarded for ‘major breakthrough’ in vision science
The $630,000 Champalimaud Award goes to Professor David Williams for his work on adaptive optics technologies.
Online archive provides window on progressive 19th century movements
A new online archive of the Post Family Papers reveals a Rochester family at the center of the abolition, woman’s suffrage, and temperance movements of the 1800s.
‘A Great Gift to the City’: 100 Years of MAG
Dedicated in memory of a beloved son, the Memorial Art Gallery looks forward to its centennial celebration in October 2013 as a community landmark and resource for the arts.