Seed funding reflects how data science, AR/VR transform research at Rochester
The University’s Goergen Institute for Data Science supports collaborative projects across all disciplines.
Faculty in data science, mechanical engineering, and history to receive Goergen Awards
Established in 1997, the award recognizes distinction in undergraduate teaching among faculty in Arts, Sciences & Engineering.
Wormholes and stains add to backstory of medieval manuscript’s acquisition
The 700-year-old manuscript is the first in a new University of Rochester library collection that honors historian Richard Kaeuper.
Students build strong relationship working with nonprofit Teen Empowerment
Created with undergraduates playing major roles, a local exhibit shows how Clarissa Street—once the center of Rochester’s Black community—was destroyed by urban renewal and housing discrimination.
Anti-trans laws use child protective services to harm transgender youth
Professor Mical Raz argues in the Washington Post that for trans children, their “very existence is at stake” when definitions of neglect and abuse become overly broad.
Fact-checking Putin’s claims that Ukraine and Russia are ‘one people’
Rochester historian Matthew Lenoe explains how Ukraine’s history is intertwined with Russia’s—but also with that of many other nations, empires, ethnicities, and religions.
Brain-based arguments to reduce child poverty miss the point
In a Washington Post op-ed, Rochester professor Mical Raz outlines the pitfalls of using babies’ brain function and biology to inform anti-poverty family policies.
Laura Ackerman Smoller named a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.
Curtis Award spotlights PhD teaching assistants’ ‘amazing’ efforts during the pandemic
The annual award honors the contributions of graduate students in classrooms and laboratories across the University. This year’s recipients come from different disciplines, but share many things in common.
Yearlong research project explores social and political nuances of migration in the Americas
Rochester scholars in the humanities and social sciences will study human migration as part of a “temporary research center” supported by a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant.