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student standing next to a trebuchet and a pile of pumpkins pumps his fist in the air
In Photos
October 31, 2014 | 03:58 pm

Pumpkins, away!

Noah Woolfolk ’16 prepares to fire his trebuchet at the annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers Pumpkin Launch on Wilson Quad.

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, events, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Laverne Cox on stage, with a giant screen projecting her image
In Photos
October 18, 2014 | 02:14 pm

Blue and Yellow Are the New Orange

Actress Laverne Cox, who plays the role of Sophia Burset, an incarcerated African-American transgender woman in Orange Is the New Black, speaks in the Palestra during Meliora Weekend.

Andre Previn
In Photos
October 9, 2014 | 08:48 pm

Andre Previn at 85

Composer, conductor, and pianist Andre Previn speaks during a discussion in the Eastman School of Music’s Hatch Hall. A new work by Previn, Music for Wind Orchestra (No Strings Attached) will receive its world premiere in a concert by the Eastman Wind Ensemble on Friday, Oct. 10, as part of an all-Previn program.

topics: Eastman School of Music, Eastman Wind Ensemble, events,
groups of students sitting on a stage holding laptops
In Photos
September 23, 2014 | 06:36 pm

Laptop Orchestra combines music, science at Fringe

The Rochester Laptop Orchestra performs “Viral Composition” at the annual Rochester Fringe Festival. The group is composed of students at the University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music who compose and perform unique, interactive compositions controlled by Wiimotes, Kinect sensors, genetic sequences, and other custom sensors.

topics: First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival,
three NROTC midshipmen in uniform in front of Rush Rhees Library, one of them holding an American flag
In Photos
September 11, 2014 | 07:06 pm

We remember

Naval ROTC students from the University—including Katherine Baum ’17 (above, left) and Jacob Shawler ’17 (center)— along with ROTC members from local battalions—including RIT senior Josh Nysenbaum (right)—held a small vigil on the Eastman Quad to remember those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including six alumni. The vigil was one of several student-organized events that included a Hopeman Memorial Carillon concert and the playing of the National Anthem at the Eastman School.

topics: events, NROTC,
two students with President Seligman on the steps of the library, as Seligman rings a handheld bell
In Photos
September 2, 2014 | 06:31 pm

Ring in the new

President Joel Seligman and students Antoinette Esce ’15 and Russell Rosenkranz ’15 ring a replica of the bell used by Martin Brewer Anderson, the university’s first president, to signal class changes.

topics: events, Joel Seligman,
Paul Burgett behind the podium on stage at convocation with student musicians behind him
In Photos
August 26, 2014 | 05:02 pm

Full many fair and famous streams…

Vice President and University Dean Paul Burgett leads the incoming freshman class in their first singing of the alma mater — with the help of the University’s a cappella ensembles — at the annual Convocation ceremony.

coach wearing University of Rochester uniform smiles as football players dump large bucket of water over his head
In Photos
August 19, 2014 | 02:25 pm

Ice, ice baby

Assistant track coach Jay Petsch is doused by football players Jordan Golinowski ’15, left and Farid Adenuga ’16. Fifteen members of the Athletic Department took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge on Aug. 19, and supported research into ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

topics: athletics, Lou Gehrig's disease,
Air Force jets flying in close formation in the blue skies over the Interfaith Chapen
In Photos
August 15, 2014 | 07:07 pm

Thunderbirds are go!

F-16 fighter jets of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are seen in the skies over the Interfaith Chapel during a practice session for the Rochester Air Show.

topics: events, interfaith chapel,
instructor holds the baton arm of a young conducting student who stands at the podium in from of orchestral musicians
In Photos
July 16, 2014 | 04:17 pm

Learning to lead

Neil Varon, professor of conducting and ensembles at the Eastman School, directs Luca Antonucci of Watertown, MA on the Kodak Hall stage during the Summer Conducting Institute. During the intensive five-day program, each young conductor has the opportunity to rehearse with Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra musicians,

topics: Eastman School of Music, Neil Varon,