From the Magazine

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The announcement in fall 2005 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…