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January 24, 2020 | 02:49 pm

Two honored with Presidential Diversity Awards

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. 

topics: announcements, awards, diversity, featured-post-side, Presidential Diversity Awards,
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University News
January 20, 2020 | 10:39 am

Reflecting on the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

topics: Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address,
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University News
January 10, 2020 | 12:11 pm

DPS installs new cruise lights for greater community presence

The University’s Department of Public Safety is joining a nationwide community policing effort by installing “cruise lights” on their fleet of vehicles, adding to officers’ visibility as they provide service to the University community.

topics: announcements, community, Department of Public Safety,
Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland in her laser lab
University News
December 30, 2019 | 11:44 am

Donna Strickland appointed to Order of Canada

University of Rochester alumna Donna Strickland ’89 (PhD), who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been appointed to the Order of Canada for her “extraordinary contributions to the nation.”

topics: alumni, announcements, Institute of Optics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Nobel Prize,