announcements

The combined master’s degree ceremony will give master’s graduates from October, March and May an opportunity to walk across the stage and individually celebrate their academic achievement.

The award is being given for Townsend's debut novel Saint Monkey, which was named by The Root as one of the 15 best works published by black authors in 2014.

The newly converted all-gender restrooms are located in Wilson Commons and in academic buildings and student residence halls throughout River Campus.

In recognition of the continuing collective philanthropy of Mark and Carolyn Ain, the Center for Entrepreneurship will be named the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship.

Anthropologist Jessica Cattelino uses ethnographic research in the Everglades to examine the cultural politics of water, and the ways that Everglades residents—including Seminole Indians and non-Seminole farmers and ranchers, water managers, and environmentalists—value water.

“Instead of thinking about the effects of intimate partner violence in an isolated kind of way, we need to look at it across the lifespan and across the developmental stages,” says keynote speaker Dr. Tasneem Ismailji.

The DPS website and Think Safe contain information regarding campus security and personal safety, including crime prevention, fire safety, University police law enforcement authority, crime reporting policies, and disciplinary procedures.

University of Rochester Trustee Ani Gabrellian '84 and her husband, Mark Gabrellian '79, have committed $2 million to establish a directorship for the University’s newly created Humanities Center.

The Nicholas George Endowed Professorship in Optics will honor the professor emeritus and former director of the Institute of Optics. The professorship was established by a gift from George's former student Milton Chang, with an additional commitment from Joseph W. Goodman, the William Ayer Professor Emeritus at Stanford University

The University’s Department of Public Safety is offering the main lobby of its headquarters as a “safe zone” for Craigslist and other online transactions.