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Tuition rates, financial aid increases set for 2023–24 academic year

Financial aid funding in the College is rising by 8.6 percent to nearly $153 million in institutional grants and scholarships.

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Health & Medicine

Awards and honors highlight Rochester faculty’s professional accomplishments

Optica, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gruber Foundation, and other organizations are among those bestowing recent honors on Rochester faculty.

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University to administer student survey on sexual misconduct in March

February 27, 2023

The survey results will be used to guide policies that encourage a healthy, safe, and nondiscriminatory environment at Rochester.

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Rochester faculty appointed to named professorships

January 31, 2023

Several faculty members at the University of Rochester were appointed to named professorships in the second half of 2022.

Aerial view of the River Campus and the Genesee River.

Health & Medicine

University receives federal funding appropriation from 2023 omnibus bill

January 10, 2023

The fiscal year 2023 funding will support health care expansions in the region as well as research at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

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Recent national awards and accolades distinguish Rochester faculty

January 4, 2023

Faculty have received honors from professional organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Modern Language Association, and the National Academy of Inventors.

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Annual MLK commemorative event will feature conversation on social justice, politics, and religion

December 15, 2022

Nationally recognized scholars Anthea Butler and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman will participate in a discussion of King’s civil rights movement, then and now.

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Rochester faculty garner recognition for professional accomplishments

December 1, 2022

Several University of Rochester faculty members have received awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.

photograph of Memorial Art Gallery Director Jonathan Binstock in the museum.

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MAG director to lead DC art museum

November 30, 2022

Jonathan Binstock has been named the next director of the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, home to a storied collection of Impressionist and modern art.

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Environmental Health & Safety’s Mark Cavanaugh to retire in December

November 9, 2022

Cavanaugh has been the University’s longest-serving leader of EH&S, contributing to numerous expansion and renovation projects over the years.

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University of Rochester establishes Department of Black Studies

November 8, 2022

President Sarah Mangelsdorf says Rochester embraces Black issues as subjects of academic study.

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Erin Martin Kane named interim vice president for communications

November 7, 2022

Kane, who brings more than 25 years of experience in communications, public affairs, and marketing, begins the role on November 20.