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A digital audio workstation with a computer monitor running digital audio software, audio equipment, speakers, keyboards, and a guitar.

Campus & Community

Coursework: Exploring music through technology

October 29, 2026

When URochester music students trade reeds, strings, and sticks for software, a world of creative possibility emerges.

Composer Jeff Beal smiles while conducting, holding a baton in a black-and-white portrait.

Campus & Community

Life lessons with Jeff Beal

October 29, 2026

His journey from Eastman to the Emmy stage has taken him from coast to coast and across multiple musical boundaries.

The face of a women wearing glasses bathed in blue and pink shadows and covered with binary code.

From the Magazine

The patient who could not die

October 29, 2026

Associate Professor of Medicine Erika Ramsdale ’21 (MS) discusses what AI can—and can’t—teach doctors about connection.

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch, wearing a green blazer, exchanges an elbow bump with an employee in the restaurant kitchen as another employee smiles.

Campus & Community

Shake Shack’s big cheese

October 29, 2026

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch ’99, ’00S (MBA) has built a career reviving restaurant brands by investing in people.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope suspended inside a large clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center as technicians work nearby.

From the Magazine

Helping NASA see the universe in a whole new light

October 29, 2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will let scientists survey the cosmos like never before, thanks in part to dozens of URochester alumni.

Thomas Howard leads the class ECE 216: Mechatronics and Embedded Systems.

Campus & Community

Thomas Howard: Find big problems that will keep you challenged

October 20, 2026

Embracing change in the ever-evolving field of robotics earned Howard URochester’s highest award for teaching.

Benjamin Hafensteiner.

Campus & Community

Benjamin Hafensteiner: Helping students connect the dots

October 20, 2026

An engaging and approachable teaching style in chemistry earned Hafensteiner URochester’s highest award for undergraduate instruction.

The Memorial Art Gallery exterior featuring a large banner that reads "Free for All Forever: Coming spring 2027" and some flora in the foreground.

Campus & Community

Memorial Art Gallery sets May 1, 2027, start date for free admission

October 8, 2026

A surge of donor support has accelerated MAG’s timeline for expanding access to art and cultural education across the region.

Four URochester alumni walking together in front of the MELIORA letters set up in front of Rush Rhees Library.

Campus & Community

The wonder of being together: Meliora Weekend 2026 in photos

October 4, 2026

Thousands of Yellowjackets came home to URochester for four days of big ideas, big performances, and even bigger reunions.

Jess Gale stands outside her store, The Siren and the Sea: Books and Coffee.

Campus & Community

The Siren and the Sea: An odyssey, of sorts

September 2, 2026

For Rochester independent bookshop owner Jess Gale ’04, community is essential to both the journey and the destination.