University News

The University of Rochester will receive important support from the $2 trillion recovery package designed to help the country fight coronavirus.

Rochester faculty have been appointed to named professorships in recognition of their leadership as reseearchers and teachers.

The Board of Trustees has approved tuition and financial aid rates for the 2020-21 academic year at the University of Rochester.

Dyson is the fourth speaker in the “Difficult Conversations as a Catalyst for Change" lecture series, and is the author or editor of more than 20 books on race and race relations in the United States.

Chihoski joins Rochester with more than 25 years of operations and facilities experience and has particular expertise in construction, facilities management, plant operations, emergency management, and environmental health and safety.

For the fourth time in six years, Rochester placed among the nation's top universities for student Fulbright Grants.

The National Science Foundation has granted its most prestigious award in support of junior faculty, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, to several University of Rochester researchers this year.

Rochester is among 119 colleges and universities to receive the elective designation that indicates institutional commitment to community engagement.

Rochester is the sixth higher education institution in the nation to join this coalition of investment firms, pension funds, and institutional investors pushing corporations to take action on climate change.

Kit Miller, director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and Caroline Nestro ’18W (PhD), a senior associate in the Department of Psychiatry, are the recipients of the 2020 Presidential Diversity Award. 

Members of the University of Rochester community lend their voices to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reflecting the power of his message more than fifty years after his death.

Alexander is vice president for enrollment and communications at Millsaps College, a nationally ranked private liberal arts institution in Jackson, Mississippi. He will begin at the University on June 1.