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Rochester celebrates the 40th anniversary of Title IX and the pioneering alumnae whohave seen remarkable changes when it comes to the equitable distribution of athletic resources at universities since the early 1970s.

A leading expert in the fields of coherence and polarization properties of optical fields, he is well known for collaborating with Nobel Laureate Max Born on the book Principles of Optics. First published in 1959, it is now in its seventh edition and widely used by students to this day.

Last year, the University provided some of the initial money to create Innovocracy, a crowdfunding platform with a twist: Innovocracy deals exclusively with academic researchers who develop products that can benefit society.

When the University of Rochester's Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971, they knew that distributing a newspaper advocating "the freedom to love" same-sex partners was a radical act.

CMTI will also make use of the University's Center for Entrepreneurship as it coordinates activities to develop technological solutions to clinical problems.

The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded today for work in the field of quantum optics, an area of physics that was pioneered in large part at the University of Rochester.

The gift will be used to create the Barbara J. Burger Endowed Scholarship in the Sciences, which will support one or more undergraduates each year in the pursuit of degrees in biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, or physics.

Chosen from a pool of nearly 400 people during auditions in New York City, Shin charmed producers with acoustic guitar renditions of Cold Play's Viva La Vida and Psy's Gangnam Style.

Beginning fall 2012, the University of Rochester Admissions Office will become "test flexible," allowing applicants to the undergraduate College of Arts, Sciences & Engineering to submit any national or international test result along with their secondary school records of courses and grades.

A lot, as it happens. Henry Kautz, chair of the computer science department, and his colleagues have shown that Twitter messages can be harnessed to predict the spread of infectious diseases, for example.