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: Timothy Peterson stands in MAG's modern and contemporary gallery beside a triangular mobile sculpture, with paintings visible on the walls behind him

From the Magazine

The art of what’s next

At the Memorial Art Gallery, Timothy Peterson is building a collection that reflects today’s complexity while helping shape the canon that endures.

Dennis DeSantis gestures while teaching a class that explores music creation and technology.

Campus & Community

Eastman School launches new major in music creation and technology

The program builds on URochester’s growing leadership at the intersection of music, engineering, sound, and digital innovation.

Illumination from Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias showing her receiving a vision and dictating to a teacher.

Society & Culture

URochester musicologist helps bring medieval mystic to life at Venice Biennale

Honey Meconi’s scholarship on Hildegard of Bingen advised the Vatican’s exhibit featuring FKA Twigs, Brian Eno, Patti Smith, and others.

A robotic hand playing a synthesizer while bathed in blue light to illustrate the question "can AI make music?"

Is AI the next Mozart—or just a mashup machine?

Music is a deeply human art form. What happens when AI enters the orchestra pit or the recording studio?

Kathryn Cowdrick holding a model of a human throat next to an illustration that reads "ever wonder what happens when an opera singer gets a cold."

Health & Medicine

What happens when an opera singer gets a cold?

November 14, 2025

When illness threatens a performance, singers rely on science, technique, and tough judgment calls.

László Krasznahorkai photographed looking outside with his arms crossed through paned windows.

On Nobelist László Krasznahorkai, the apocalypse, and the art of literary translation

October 10, 2025

Alumnus Declan Spring ’87 and Open Letter’s Chad Post reflect on the vision and voice of the newly minted Nobel laureate.

The stage, seats, and chandelier of Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre with an overlay of text that reads "Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester presents Soundtrax Film Music Festival."

Film, music, and technology converge at inaugural Soundtrax Festival

October 3, 2025

The University of Rochester debuts the first North American festival dedicated to the art and science of film music.

Thomas Perry holding up a book with his name and the title THE BURGLAR on the cover

Master of suspense: Thomas Perry ’74 (PhD) on the thrill of writing thrillers

September 23, 2025

The acclaimed author has penned more than two dozen novels.

image of illustrated medieval text

Rochester project democratizes access to medieval English literature

September 22, 2025

The pioneering Middle English Texts Series “puts the literature out there for everybody,” making medieval English texts available to scholars and students around the world.

Joan and Jeff Beal.

Alumni Joan and Jeff Beal make record gift to the University’s Eastman School of Music

September 22, 2025

The multimillion-dollar gift will expand Eastman’s Beal Institute by providing critical support for space, technology, programs, and students.

Handful of people seated and looking at a painting off camera as part of an Art of Observation class at the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery.

Health & Medicine

Want to be a better doctor or nurse? Take a look at this painting.

Rochester’s Art of Observation program helps medical students and clinicians cultivate essential clinical skills.

A group of schoolchildren with their hands raised and their Expanded Learrning Collaboration instructors at the Memorial Art Gallery.

Beyond the museum: An arts partnership inspires young minds

The Memorial Art Gallery and Rochester City School District’s Expanded Learning Collaboration cultivates creativity, curiosity, and connection.