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Business majors Zetian Xiao, Jixuan Liu, and Teddi Shapiro.

How Rochester business majors help area businesses grow

Area businesses regularly tap into the research skills of Rochester business majors in Vincent Hope's Marketing Projects course in order to help address the real-world marketing issues facing their companies.

Yellow number five against a blue background.

University admits 12 students into Take Five Scholars Program

Unique to the University, Take Five offers selected undergraduates a fifth, tuition-free year to complete self-designed projects unrelated to their majors and for the sole purpose of intellectual enrichment.

large line of student signing a roll of parchment.

College’s Class of 2023 set from record number of applicants

More than 1,300 students from 44 states and 77 countries will arrive on River Campus in August. More than 21,300 students applied, up six percent from last year’s high-water mark.

group of people posed for a formal portrait

Four high school teachers receive Singer Family Prize

A Commencement tradition for the past 12 years, the Singer Family Prize is given to high school teachers who have made a difference in the lives of the seniors who nominate them.

‘Dear Mom and Dad’

Members of the graduating class honor their parents and families with messages of thanks.

portrait of the Class Council for 2019.

Dear Class of 2019: A message from the senior class council

“We are so honored to have served on Class Council and be influenced by the diverse perspectives, personalities, and interests of our class.”

two students working with a small manufacturing device.

Students make assembly line more accessible for workers with disabilities

The graduating seniors behind THOR Designs are the first all-female engineering team to compete in a state-wide competition to bring assistive technologies to New Yorkers in the workplace.

Human powered vehicle offers ‘so many things’ in one project

Members of the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge Team can take their senior engineering capstone project on the road, competing nationally with other student engineers to design, build, and race a new vehicle.

student playing a guitar and looking at a computer screen with the Skethcassette plugin interface on the screen.

Adding a vintage feel to modern audio recordings

Warble. Wow. Flutter. A team of audio and music engineering graduates is bring back these irregular, low-fi sounds from four-track cassette recordings of the 1980s and ’90s with a digital plug-in.

student speaks to a visitor at his demo table at the Hajim Design Day.

Translating Nobel-worthy science for a broad audience

For their capstone project, a senior design team has built a demonstration model for museum audiences of the Nobel Prize-winning laser technology developed by Rochester alumna Donna Strickland ’89 (PhD).

Alex Johnson standing behind a practice carillon

Carillon strikes a chord for senior physics major

With a major in physics and a minor in music, Alex Johnson '19 is heading to Belgium after graduation to learn more about "the bells” that inspired him in Rochester. “Lots of deciding to do. There isn’t a wrong decision.”

Hannah Dick seated in Meliora Hall

Two degrees for a student with music on her mind

Hannah Dick ’19, ’19E knew she wanted to pursue a college degree in music. But that wasn’t all. Graduating with dual degrees in percussion and brain and cognitive science, she plans to use music to help people.