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Himalayas climate change environmental history
Society & Culture
March 3, 2021 | 02:20 pm

Rochester Himalayan project receives environmental history award

Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an “outstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.”

topics: Department of History, Nancy Chin, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies, tanya bakhmetyeva,
close-up of a hand holding a briefcase and a face mask during the coronavirus recession
Society & Culture
January 21, 2021 | 11:30 am

How the coronavirus recession will end

In a study documenting the evolution of the labor market from mid-March through November 2020, Rochester economics professor Lisa Kahn says controlling COVID is essential to restoring the economy.

topics: COVID-19, Department of Economics, Lisa Kahn, School of Arts and Sciences,
Saturn and Jupiter in alignment
Society & Culture
December 18, 2020 | 02:41 pm

The Jupiter and Saturn conjunction, through medieval and Renaissance eyes

In medieval and Renaissance Europe and in the Arab world, it was widely believed that “when Saturn and Jupiter are found in the same area of the zodiac—in other words when they are in conjunction—there are profound effects on Earth,” says historian Laura Ackerman Smoller.  

topics: Department of History, Laura Ackerman Smoller, School of Arts and Sciences,
typewriter text that reads this year I will
Society & Culture
December 18, 2020 | 01:26 pm

How to be happier in the new year

Toss out your usual list of New Year’s resolutions and do things that make the world a better place, says a Rochester expert on motivation and well-being.

topics: COVID-19, Department of Psychology, featured-post-side, Richard Ryan, School of Arts and Sciences, self-determination,
Black child in pink dress looks out a brightly lit window.
Society & Culture
December 11, 2020 | 01:21 pm

American child welfare system has lost its way, says Rochester historian

A shift starting in the late 1960s has targeted poor families with unnecessary investigations and child removals at the expense of services, argues Rochester health policy historian and physician Mical Raz.

topics: book authors, children, Department of History, featured-post-side, Mical Raz, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,