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Jeanette Colby, the University Events Calendar editor, offers one thing to do this weekend in honor of Commencement Weekend activities. The ‘5 things to do this weekend’ feature will take a break over the summer and will return in September. 

The Meliora Award recognizes staff members whose work performance and dedication during the preceding year exemplify the University’s motto, Meliora (“Ever Better”). President and CEO Joel Seligman and Robert Witmer…

The Witmer Award for Distinguished Service is given to staff members whose careers have been characterized by outstanding and sustained contributions to the University. President and CEO Joel Seligman and…

The weather could not have been better for this year's Dandelion Day celebration. Dandelion Day, one of the University's oldest traditions, is a day of music, food, and celebration as the spring semester winds to a close.

Precious Bedell is devoted to improving the lives of people affected by incarceration. Bedell, who works as a human subjects research coordinator in the Department of Psychiatry, founded and directs…

Frederick Jefferson, professor emeritus at the Warner School of Education, has had a long and distinguished record of leadership at Rochester, pioneering and championing programs that have made the University and…

Pulmonary expert Patricia Sime has been jointly reappointed as the C. Jane Davis & C. Robert Davis Distinguished Professor in Pulmonary Medicine and chief of the Division of Pulmonary Diseases…

Internationally renowned scientist and clinician Charles Lowenstein has been jointly reappointed as the Paul N. Yu Professor in Cardiology, director of the Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, and chief of the…

William Hall was reappointed as the Paul H. Fine Professor in Medicine by the Board of Trustees in February. Recognized internationally for his work in geriatrics and his expertise based…

Paul Levy has been reappointed as Charles Ayrault Dewey Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine. The appointments, which were approved by the Board of Trustees in…

Narayana Kocherlakota, most recently president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and a leading scholar of monetary and financial economics, has been appointed as the inaugural Lionel W. McKenzie…

Ann Dozier ’77, ’96N (PhD), professor of public health sciences, has been named the Albert David Kaiser Chair of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She was also appointed chair of…