From the Magazine

Amateur scholar Raymond Borst ’33 helped shape the understanding of Concord’s famous son. ‘Seeing a job to do,’ he amassed one of the world’s most extensive collections of Thoreau’s work,…

Star Trek’s Half-Century Voyage Rochester faculty and alumni have composed its theme, written episodes, and reflected deeply on why Star Trek resonates. It’s a voyage that began 50 years ago, on…

A Rochester innovation transformed pediatric medicine over the past quarter-century Nina Schor remembers the sharp demarcation between the prevaccine and postvaccine eras in the pediatric history of Haemophilus influenzae type b, an…

Two University engineers helped transform the early days of the digital revolution, setting off a “virtuous cycle” of research and invention that continues to be felt decades later. That’s the…

When a persistent inventor and a thoughtful executive joined forces, they transformed American business and helped build the modern University of Rochester. It was a cramped, second-story room at 32–05…

Last fall’s announcement of a vaccine against cervical cancer came as a stunning breakthrough in medical science, but it was only the latest chapter in a pioneering, Rochester-born effort begun…