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Campus Life
February 21, 2017 | 03:56 pm

UR HEAL wins Community Engagement Challenge

The student organization provides health care services to low-income members of the greater Rochester community, and is the inaugural winner of this challenge grant.

topics: announcements, community, Rochester Center for Community Leadership,
photo of Mary Ann Mavrinac
University News
February 17, 2017 | 12:48 pm

Mavrinac reappointed to five-year deanship

Mavrinac is a recognized leader in the creation of inspiring learning spaces and the development of digital services. In her first five years here, she has led two major space renovations in Rush Rhees Library—the creation of Evans Lam Square, and the forthcoming iZone.

topics: announcements, Mary Ann Mavrinac, University of Rochester Libraries,
Jimmie Reyna
University News
February 11, 2017 | 10:00 pm

Federal Circuit Court Judge Jimmie Reyna ’75 to deliver 2017 Commencement address

The Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna ’75, Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, is the first Latino to serve on the country’s second highest court. He will be bestowed the Charles Force Hutchison and Marjorie Smith Hutchison Medal, the University’s highest alumni award.

topics: announcements, commencement,
news clipping featuring Connie Mitchell
University News
January 17, 2017 | 04:48 pm

Community, civil rights leader to be awarded Frederick Douglass Medal

Constance (Connie) Mitchell, one of Rochester history’s most influential social, civic, political and industrial activists, is being recognized for outstanding civic engagement at this year’s Susan B. Anthony Legacy Awards Celebration brunch on Feb. 4.

topics: announcements, awards, Frederick Douglass Medal, Susan B. Anthony Center, Susan B. Anthony Legacy Awards Celebration,
Richard Feldman
University News
January 17, 2017 | 04:30 pm

Richard Feldman to step down as College dean at end of academic year

Feldman, who has served as dean of the College for the past decade, is also a professor of philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences and will be returning to the philosophy department following a year of leave in the 2017-18 academic year.

topics: announcements, Department of Philosophy, Richard Feldman, School of Arts and Sciences,
Ralph Raimi teaching a mathematics course at the University of Rochester in 1994 (Photo credit: Jessica Raimi)
University News
January 13, 2017 | 03:58 pm

Mathematician and longtime University faculty member Ralph Raimi dies at 92

After being named professor emeritus in 1995, Raimi became active in efforts to reform K–12 math education. Considered one of the top education experts in the country, he was a mathematics curriculum consultant to states across the country.

topics: announcements, Department of Mathematics, obituaries, Ralph Raimi,
The Arts
January 12, 2017 | 04:50 am

A passion turned scholarly pursuit

Seymour Schwartz, the University’s Distinguished Alumni Professor of Surgery, is also a renowned map historian whose collection has become one of the most acclaimed collections of rare maps in North America.

topics: announcements, Memorial Art Gallery, Seymour Schwartz,