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Digital Media Studies and the Memorial Art Gallery team up in digital equity project

Digital Media Studies and the Memorial Art Gallery team up in digital equity project

May 17, 2023

With a Museum Initiative grant, a joint project of Verizon and NYC Media Lab, the Memorial Art Gallery and recent digital media studies graduates team up to expand the museum’s digital reach.

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Intimacy directing is making a difference on stage and beyond

Intimacy directing is making a difference on stage and beyond

May 9, 2023

In Rochester’s International Theatre Program, intimacy directing is playing a growing role.

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When fictional children become stranger things

When fictional children become stranger things

April 18, 2023

Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.

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Questions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel

Questions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel

April 3, 2023

In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?

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Music therapy finds its rhythm at the Medical Center

Music therapy finds its rhythm at the Medical Center

March 10, 2023

In conjunction with Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, the Medical Center has helped thousands of patients heal, recover, and find peace through music.

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Mellon grant supports a close-up on close-ups

Mellon grant supports a close-up on close-ups

March 3, 2023

A Rochester research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.

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The ‘ideal of what a humanities professor ought to be’

The ‘ideal of what a humanities professor ought to be’

March 3, 2023

English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.

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Changing the narrative about Blackness on the stage

Changing the narrative about Blackness on the stage

February 14, 2023

By partnering with Black actors and artists, the International Theatre Program’s recent productions help give new dimension to marginalized characters.

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NSF grant supports project leveraging AI for music production

NSF grant supports project leveraging AI for music production

November 29, 2022

An interdisciplinary team of researchers is using artificial intelligence to empower musicians to produce and disseminate their art more effectively.

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Is gospel music losing its Black roots?

Is gospel music losing its Black roots?

November 15, 2022

Musicologist Cory Hunter identifies a notable contemporary shift in the century-old musical form.

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