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Melissa Mead smiling and leaning against shelf of gray archival boxes in archive.

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Ask the archivist: What role did my brother have  in the 1964 honor code?

A question for Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian.

Crop of portrait of John Blackshear.

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New Yellowjacket in town

A Q&A with John Blackshear, the University’s first vice president for student life.

Robert Downey Jr. drinking from a mug that says happy and Craig Dubitsky holding a pod of Happy coffee.

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Hello, coffee

Entrepreneur Craig Dubitsky ’87 has teamed up with actor Robert Downey Jr. to create Happy, a brand with a social mission.

Beth Greenwood, wearing a Philadelphia Phillies hat and T-shirt stands beside a team training center.

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Great catch

Beth Greenwood ’22—the first American woman catcher in NCAA baseball history—has joined Phillies' minor league affiliate as a development coach.

photo of Corvette engineer Tadge Juechter with blue Corvette and a yellow Corvette.

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The little red Corvette undergoes a revolution

University of Rochester alumnus Tadge Juechter ’79, executive chief engineer for Corvette, is steering “America’s sports car” into its electrified future. From the revolutionary new E-Ray to decades of innovation at General Motors, Juechter reflects on the challenges of blending performance, sustainability, and tradition while carrying forward the legacy that began in Rochester.

The James Webb Space Telescope in orbit, showcasing its advanced design and technology for astronomical observations.

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A look back in time: URochester’s role in the James Webb Telescope

September 1, 2021

As the James Webb Space Telescope heads toward its launch date, dozens of Rochester faculty and alumni who contributed to the project await images from 13.5 billion years ago. Here’s…

A woman with glasses and a scarf stands in front of a lab at the University of Rochester, focusing on RNA biology research.

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Attacking a Pandemic, One RNA Strand at a Time

Pioneering biochemist Lynne Maquat helped usher in the age of RNA-based therapeutics, a key defense against coronavirus. When the US Food and Drug Administration approved emergency use authorization for the…

Three University of Rochester NROTC midshipmen in uniform saluting the camera.

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Salute to NROTC

January 1, 2020

One of the longest-running, continuous programs in the country, the University’s Naval ROTC unit celebrates 75 years of leadership. Katarina Vogel ’20 is packing a lot into her life as…

A woman stands in front of a mirror in a lab, celebrating physicist Donna Strickland's 2018 Nobel Prize win.

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How Donna Strickland’s URochester research won a Nobel

September 1, 2018

Donna Strickland ’89 (PhD), a self-described “laser jock,” receives the Nobel Prize, along with her advisor, Gérard Mourou, for work they did at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Donna Strickland…

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How Open Letter is changing translated literature

Taking on the ‘Culture at Large’ A decade, 100 titles, and 100,000 books later—Open Letter continues to reinvent the world of literary translation This spring the special collections of University Libraries…

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Henry David Thoreau and the Borst collection at URochester

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,…

image of model of star trek's enterprise for story about Rochester's connections to the series

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How URochester shaped Star Trek on and off the screen

September 1, 2016

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…