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Close up of Jon Onyiriuka in a suit smiling at the camera.

Campus & Community

Jon Onyiriuka ’08: From courtside to client-side

January 14, 2025

How the Rochester alumnus has converted his experiences as a student and an athlete into career success on Wall Street.

Diptych of the book cover art for "Melvill" by Rodrigo Fresán and "Muzzle for Witches" by Dubravka Ugresic, both translated and published by Open Letter Press and longlisted by the National Book Critics Circle translation prize.

Two Open Letter books nominated by National Book Critics Circle

December 21, 2024

Rochester’s literary translation press edited and published two of the longlisted books for the organization’s 2024 Barrios Book in Translation Prize.

Illustration of row of people from behind, holding hands, looking on at new Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute building.

From the Magazine

A catalyst for change

December 4, 2024

The new Golisano Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Institute will drive transformations in research, training, care, and advocacy.

Jeffrey Kishner in blue button-down standing in the Distillery District of Toronto.

From the Magazine

Show us your town: Toronto

December 3, 2024

Toronto native Jeffrey Kishner ’01S (MBA) shares plenty of picks for the perfect long weekend.

student musicians play on a stage with a film projected behind them to illustrate a film score analysis class at the Eastman School of Music.

Campus & Community

Composing in reel time

December 2, 2024

A journey through film score history sets students on the path to understanding—and crafting—their own compositions.

Melissa Mead smiling and leaning against shelf of gray archival boxes in archive.

From the Magazine

Ask the archivist: When did the University power up its first computers?

December 1, 2024

A question for the University of Rochester’s archivist about the beginnings of administrative computing on campus.

Detail of Luther Henderson's original score of his arrangement of a Duke Ellington classic.

From the Magazine

Eastman scores

December 1, 2024

Luther Henderson III ’71E, ’73E (MM) chooses Eastman’s Ensemble Library as home for his father’s Duke Ellington arrangements.

Colorful, stylized illustration of Karen Durkin, who reflects on the role of women's sports in her life, career, and society at large.

From the Magazine

A ‘boom’ in women’s sports

December 1, 2024

Karen Durkin ’87 reflects on how women’s sports became big business.

Student performs various movement and balance tasks on a force plate walkway while wearing shoes instrumented with pressure insoles and a suit outfitted with reflective markers for use in collection of biomechanics data

Campus & Community

November 2024 in Photos

November 26, 2024

Bright nights gave way to autumn sights. Throw on your favorite scarf and explore how we spent November at the University of Rochester.

Wide angle shot of Remote Bermuda island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Society & Culture

Historic Bermuda reshapes our understanding of colonial America

November 21, 2024

Smithsonian Magazine highlights the role of a Rochester historian and archaeologist in unearthing Bermuda’s colonial origins.