Campus Life

Each year, the Hajim School awards well-rounded students with the Robert L. Wells Prize. Meet the Class of 2024 recipients.

The annual fall celebration combining reunion, homecoming, and family weekend welcomed thousands to campus for four days of activities, get-togethers, and programs.

Mara Criollo-Rivera and Kristel Kezia Layugan plan careers helping underrepresented groups in media and health care. Rochester has had three recipients in the Voyager Scholarship’s first two years.

Among the new members of the Class of 2027 are first-generation students, US veterans, junior Olympians, accomplished performers—and even a national Scrabble champion.

Biomedical engineering student Sophea Urbi Biswas explores how the brain processes speech syntax—and discovers the benefits of conducting research as an undergraduate.

The Horticulture and Grounds Department has accepted three national honors on behalf of the University.

Members of the University community have served their country in wartime since the Civil War, with many having made the ultimate sacrifice. This Memorial Day, we remember three of them.

The national designation from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is the result of a two-year, student-led effort.

Highlights include the first Truman Scholar since 2004 and four Goldwater Scholars, an institutional record.

In a senior project, graduating dual degree student Mae Cooke integrates their studies of harp and studio arts.

The annual competition highlights the intersection of science, art, and technology as part of the Rochester experience.

Morgan Gillespie ’23 has produced some striking preliminary findings that show voters use gender cues to form beliefs about which policies a politician supports.