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Aerial image of University of Rochester's River Campus.
Campus Life
March 31, 2020 | 02:49 pm

Moves protect students and make way for isolation, quarantine areas

Undergraduates who have to remain on campus have moved into separate rooms as part of an effort to reduce the likelihood that they’ll come into contact with coronavirus and to create quarantine and isolation areas if students need that level of care.

topics: River Campus, student life,
two portraits of students
Campus Life
December 4, 2019 | 04:25 pm

Rochester senior, recent alumnus named Schwarzman Scholars

One Rochester graduate and one senior are among the 145 Schwarzman Scholars selected this year from a global applicant pool of more than 4,700 applicants to complete a multidisciplinary one-year master’s program at China’s Tsinghua University.

topics: announcements, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Schwarzman Scholars,
three people pose for a photo with a surveyor tool.
Campus Life
December 3, 2019 | 01:21 pm

How do you bring a castle home with you?

How do you convey a 91,000-square-foot castle with more than 160 rooms on the Ghana coast, back to Rochester, so at any time you could take a virtual tour as if you were really there? Or study the castle’s structure brick by brick?

topics: Chris Muir, Department of History, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ghana, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Michael Jarvis, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, School of Arts and Sciences,
Jin Seokjin Kim
Campus Life
November 19, 2019 | 10:26 am

University student awarded foreign service graduate fellowship

Jin Kim ’19 (T5 ’20) is the first Rochester student to be awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellowship, a program designed to attract outstanding candidates from diverse backgrounds to represent the United States in the Foreign Service.

topics: announcements, diversity, Take Five Scholars Program,
Exterior of the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Campus Life
November 14, 2019 | 04:05 pm

Six Rochester graduate students offered National Institutes of Health fellowship grants

Five graduate students from the University of Rochester Medical Center and one from the School of Arts and Sciences have been offered National Institutes of Health F31 fellowship grants to support their health-related research.

topics: awards, Department of Biology, fellowships, Medical Center, National Institutes of Health, School of Arts and Sciences,
six portraits of veteran students.
Campus Life
November 8, 2019 | 01:30 pm

Veteran students make Rochester home

Helping military veterans transition to higher education is a particular strength of the University of Rochester, which is currently 10th on the US News & World Report rankings of “Best Colleges for Veterans.” Six students share their story.

topics: Veterans Alliance,
professor Steve Roessner stands in front of a large sound board in a recording studio.
Campus Life
October 29, 2019 | 10:28 am

The art and science of sound

The University’s $3 million investment in a new state-of-the-art recording studio, control room, mixing rooms, and sound design lab is a major milestone for Rochester’s now six-year-old audio and music engineering program.

topics: Audio and Music Engineering, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, quality education,
Triptych of Katherine Schaefer, Ryan Prendergast, and Matthew BaileyShea.
Campus Life
October 18, 2019 | 10:37 am

Meet the 2019 recipients of the Goergen Award for teaching excellence

Three University educators are being recognized as the recipients of the 2019 Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, and Katherine Schaefer.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Arts Sciences and Engineering, awards, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Eastman School of Music, featured-post-side, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Katherine Schaefer, Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, School of Arts and Sciences, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,