University News

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.

Thirty percent of the 20 tenure-track faculty members in the University's Department of Mathematics are now AMS Fellows.  

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.

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.”