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University News
September 13, 2021 | 11:02 am

Three professors to receive Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Will Bridges, Jason Middleton, and Elaine Sia will be honored at an on-campus ceremony in October.

topics: Department of Biology, Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Elaine Sia, Film and Media Studies Program, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jason Middleton, School of Arts and Sciences, teaching, Will Bridges,
Triptych of Katherine Schaefer, Ryan Prendergast, and Matthew BaileyShea.
Campus Life
October 18, 2019 | 10:37 am

Meet the 2019 recipients of the Goergen Award for teaching excellence

Three University educators are being recognized as the recipients of the 2019 Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, and Katherine Schaefer.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Arts Sciences and Engineering, awards, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Eastman School of Music, featured-post-side, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Katherine Schaefer, Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, School of Arts and Sciences, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,
Ryan Prendergast leafs through a manuscript while two students look on.
Campus Life
October 18, 2019 | 10:37 am

Ryan Prendergast: Teaching the principles of Don Quixote and beyond

“We should give students the input and tools to be able to produce knowledge on their own,” says Ryan Prendergast, an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures.

topics: awards, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Ryan Prendergast, School of Arts and Sciences,
portraits of three individual students
Campus Life
October 9, 2019 | 12:03 pm

Students thrive at the intersections of engineering, computer science, and humanities

Seniors Melissa Wen, Nathan Nickerson, and Jarrod Young are this year’s winners of the Wells Award, given each year to high-achieving students in the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who also excel in the humanities.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, humanities, interdisciplinary, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, School of Arts and Sciences, Wells Award,
portraits of three professors
University News
September 18, 2019 | 01:18 pm

Three professors to receive Goergen Awards for teaching excellence

Matthew BaileyShea, in the College’s Department of Music and the Eastman School of Music; Ryan Prendergast, in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures; and Katherine Schaefer, in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program are this year’s teaching honorees.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, awards, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Goergen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Katherine Schaefer, Matthew BaileyShea, Ryan Prendergast, School of Arts and Sciences, Writing Speaking and Argument Program,
collage of six portraits of famous American and Russian authors.
Society & Culture
December 5, 2018 | 03:33 pm

What is belief in a secular age?

New books from Rochester scholars John Givens and John Michael examine the lives of iconic writers to ask what religious belief might look like in an age of science and secularism.

topics: book authors, Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, John Givens, John Michael, religion, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
black-and-white movie still of a small boy is seen in the surrounding software interface of a film editing program
The Arts
November 29, 2018 | 12:57 pm

Digital scholars rescue lost Japanese film

A 1929 Japanese silent film inspired by a classic O. Henry short story was long thought lost until Rochester researchers collaborated to bring it back to the big screen.

topics: Department of English, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Digital Scholarship Lab, Film and Media Studies Program, George Eastman Museum, Joanne Bernardi, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences,
students stands in front of a large sound board
Campus Life
November 9, 2018 | 01:08 pm

Wells Award winners excel in engineering and humanities

They major in optical engineering and minor in Italian. Or work toward dual degrees in music and computer science. Or pursue two minors while majoring in audio and music engineering. Meet the graduating seniors from the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences honored for pursuing dual degrees or minors in the humanities.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Audio and Music Engineering, awards, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Eastman School of Music, featured-post, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, humanities, Institute of Optics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics,
Eighteenth-century man leans toward an aristocratic woman, watched by her maid.
The Arts
September 18, 2018 | 10:06 am

‘Goethe was really an outlier in stressing that love was more important’

The first complete English translation of Goethe’s original 1776 text of “Stella: A Play for Lovers” reveals greater differences in gender relations.

topics: book authors, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, featured-post-side, Kristina Becker Malett, literary translation, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan Gustafson,