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A digital audio workstation with a computer monitor running digital audio software, audio equipment, speakers, keyboards, and a guitar.

Campus & Community

Coursework: Exploring music through technology

October 29, 2026

When URochester music students trade reeds, strings, and sticks for software, a world of creative possibility emerges.

Composer Jeff Beal smiles while conducting, holding a baton in a black-and-white portrait.

Campus & Community

Life lessons with Jeff Beal

October 29, 2026

His journey from Eastman to the Emmy stage has taken him from coast to coast and across multiple musical boundaries.

The face of a women wearing glasses bathed in blue and pink shadows and covered with binary code.

From the Magazine

The patient who could not die

October 29, 2026

Associate Professor of Medicine Erika Ramsdale ’21 (MS) discusses what AI can—and can’t—teach doctors about connection.

Exterior of Taylor Hall on the University of Rochester campus.

From the Magazine

Ask the archivist: What’s the history of Taylor Hall?

October 29, 2026

Melissa Mead discusses the history of Taylor Hall on the River Campus.

Riley Laygo stands in a Yellowjackets softball uniform holding a baseball glove and ball while standing on a baseball field.

Campus & Community

Riley Laygo ’27 is rewriting the URochester softball record book

October 29, 2026

After a record-breaking season, the Yellowjackets star is exploring what else she can do.

Seven University of Rochester faculty book covers arranged in a collage, featuring works on science, music, bees, immigration, adoption, and race.

From the Magazine

Faculty works: Fall 2026

October 29, 2026

Seven new books from URochester faculty span Beethoven, bees, and the borderlands.

Gourab Ghoshal sits at his desk in his office with a bookshelf full of books and objects behind him.

From the Magazine

Office hours with Gourab Ghoshal

October 29, 2026

The URochester professor on complex systems, the emergence of life and intelligence, and what distinguishes living systems from machines.

An empty crossword puzzle grid with numbered squares and across clues from “It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas,” a methane-themed puzzle by Stella Zawistowski.

From the Magazine

Wordplay | Solution: It’s a gas, gas, gas

October 29, 2026

Access the answer grid for the crossword puzzle from the fall 2026 print edition of Rochester Review magazine.

Eastman School of Music student string quartet and percussionist perform for Monroe County Jail residents and staff.

Campus & Community

Measure by measure: Making music inside Monroe County Jail

October 29, 2026

A new partnership explores what happens when incarcerated people are given the chance not just to listen to music but to create it.

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch, wearing a green blazer, exchanges an elbow bump with an employee in the restaurant kitchen as another employee smiles.

Campus & Community

Shake Shack’s big cheese

October 29, 2026

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch ’99, ’00S (MBA) has built a career reviving restaurant brands by investing in people.

Black and white archival image of two researchers in white lab coats working with a complex array of laboratory equipment, glass tubing, gauges, and control panels.

From the Magazine

From atoms to action

October 29, 2026

Explore the milestones that led to the formation of URochester Medicine’s new Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health Sciences.

A split image contrasts the KivuWatt methane extraction barge on Rwanda’s Lake Kivu with fishermen working from wooden boats at sunset.

From the Magazine

Rethinking power on Lake Kivu

October 29, 2026

Anthropologist Kristin Doughty’s research shows how a vision of progress can be manipulated by those in power—and who bears those costs.