COVID-19

Environmental scientist Lee Murray tells City Newspaper that the area’s nitrogen dioxide concentrations in March were 30 percent lower than in March 2019. But the benefit won't last, he says.

Philosophy faculty explore moral dilemmas presented by the crisis and how they intersect with larger structural questions.

For history professors Molly Ball and Pablo Sierra Silva, adjusting to online teaching and caring for three young children has been a learning experience.

Nanomembranes, optical sensors, and blood analysis: Rochester faculty are turning previous research avenues to focus on ways to quickly detect novel coronavirus to speed treatment.

Donated cloth masks will be distributed to employees carrying on the work needed to keep the University operational during the coronavirus crisis.

Rochester computer scientists mine social media data to discover links between social characteristics of Twitter users and how they are likely to describe the novel coronavirus.

Effective immediately and until further notice, all students and employees currently working or living on non-Medical Center locations are required to wear a face mask when out in public or when social distancing is not possible.

A team of 14 physicians, physician assistants, and registered nurses have returned to Rochester after supporting health care providers at two New York City hospitals hard hit by the coronavirus.

Modern mechanical ventilators—whose short supply is now at the center of a national debate about the nation’s preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic—represent a “remarkable journey” of medical technology.

Without a coordinated system of testing, tracing, and quarantining for COVID-19, economic activity cannot resume—and the downturn will be steeper and longer than any since before World War II, says Rochester economist Narayana Kocherlakota.