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Susan B. Anthony
Society & Culture
August 21, 2015 | 02:53 pm

Center brings Susan B. Anthony into the 21st century with  #SueBSays

While much is known about the famed suffragist’s stance on social equality and slavery, Susan B. Anthony also had lots to say on a variety of issues that still resonate today.

topics: announcements, Catherine Cerulli, John Cullen, Susan B. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony Center, women's rights,
aerial photo of large group of students hanging out on the quad
Society & Culture
July 23, 2015 | 11:58 am

College social life can predict well-being at midlife

A new 30-year longitudinal study shows that the quantity of social interactions a person has in their 20s—and the quality of the social relationships they have in their 30s—can benefit his or her well-being later in life. The study participants, now in their 50s, took part in the Rochester-Interaction Record (RIR) study as college students in the 1970s and again as 30-year-olds in the 1980s.

topics: Department of Psychology, featured-post, happiness, Harry Reis, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
students and administrators pose with Dalia Lama after winning an award
Society & Culture
July 13, 2015 | 02:54 pm

Winners of inaugural Tibetan Innovation Challenge announced

A Simon Business School team placed third in the Tibetan Innovation Challenge, a new intercollegiate social entrepreneurship business plan competition that aims to develop self-sustaining and replicable business ideas to alleviate the economic difficulties Tibetan refugees are facing.

topics: awards, featured-post, global engagement, Tibet, Tibetan Innovation Challenge,
close-up image of child's face
Society & Culture
June 18, 2015 | 01:04 pm

Stress in low-income families can affect children’s learning

Children living in low-income households who endure family instability and emotionally distant caregivers are at risk of having impaired cognitive abilities according to new research from Rochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center.

topics: children, Department of Psychology, featured-post, Melissa Sturge-Apple, Mt. Hope Family Center, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, stress,
Image showing people wearing Stop Ebola t-shirts and a capture of the main page of the Node app
Society & Culture
May 21, 2015 | 12:05 pm

New smartphone app would track spread of Ebola

Node, a new smartphone app developed by Medical Center research associate Solomon Abiola, would track the spread of Ebola and other infectious diseases and allow victims to receive the help they need more quickly.

topics: data science, Department of Computer Science, global engagement, Henry Kautz, mobile app, National Science Foundation, Nigeria, Ray Dorsey, Solomon Abiola, Translational Biomedical Sciences,
multi colored speech balloons
Society & Culture
May 19, 2015 | 12:13 pm

Thinking alike changes how we speak

As social creatures, we tend to mimic each other’s posture, laughter, and other behaviors, including how we speak. Now a new study from brain and cognitive sciences researchers shows that people with similar views tend to more closely mirror, or align, each other’s speech patterns. In addition, people who are better at compromising align more closely.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Florian Jaeger, language, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
calendar with a handwritten note on April 14th that says Equal Pay Day
Society & Culture
April 13, 2015 | 09:41 am

Susan B. Anthony Center partners with COPE for equal pay in Rochester

A significant pay gap still exists between men and women on a national scale. In order to help raise awareness of this issue, the Susan B. Anthony Center has partnered with the Coalition on Pay Equity (or COPE) to survey this inequality in the Rochester area.

topics: announcements, Catherine Cerulli, gender, Susan B. Anthony Center,
still of Sidney Poitier in To Sir with Love
Society & Culture
April 6, 2015 | 01:27 pm

The Poitier Effect: New book by film scholar examines ‘change without change’

Sir Sidney Poitier became a cultural icon in the 1950s as the first black actor to break racial barriers in film. But as art and art history professor Sharon Willis argues in her new book, his image on screen creates a false sense of equality that continues to appear in the popular media and remains damaging to race relations today.

topics: book authors, Department of Art and Art History, film, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, literature, racism, research finding, Sharon Willis,
photo of a 19th century handwritten diary with a hand drawn map of Virgina
Society & Culture
April 2, 2015 | 03:27 pm

Libraries commemorate 150th anniversary of Civil War

This journal was kept by William Carey Morey, a University of Rochester graduate who would later become a beloved professor and namesake of Morey Hall and who fought in the Battle of the Wilderness. River Campus Libraries is marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a series of events commemorating the experiences of Rochester’s soldiers and citizens.

topics: anniversary, civil war, events, River Campus Libraries,