National award highlights University’s continued commitment to diversity
For the second year in a row, Rochester has been recognized for its efforts to support equity and inclusivity across campus.
Pipeline program lets East High students experience life in the lab
Lulu Abdullahi (right), a junior at East High School in the Rochester City School District, practices soldering to repair an experiment component with Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, an assistant professor in the University’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. For six weeks, Abdullahi and a classmate visited campus as part of NEUROEAST, a new Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience program.
Ibram X. Kendi: ‘The very heartbeat of racism is denial’
The antiracist activist and author spoke on several current issues at the University’s annual MLK Commemorative Address.
Simon School earns top rank for diverse MBA program
Simon is No. 1 for MBA diversity among top 50 business schools, according to US News & World Report.
Author, antiracist activist Ibram X. Kendi to deliver University’s MLK address
Kendi, a best-selling author, professor, antiracist activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in America, will give a virtual speech as the event celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Military veterans find a home at University
Rochester is annually recognized as a Best College for Veterans for its efforts to ensure service members can access the benefits of higher education. Meet a few of the current University students who have served in our nation’s armed forces.
University recognized for commitment to diversity and inclusion
National award honors the University’s efforts to weave diversity and inclusion “into the work being done every day” across campus.
The University of Rochester has received the 2020 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
Laser Lab accepted into American Physical Society’s Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance
The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics has joined the American Physical Society’s IDEA initiative, a new program to increase workforce diversity in physics departments and laboratories.
Two honored with Presidential Diversity Awards
Kit Miller, director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and Caroline Nestro ’18W (PhD), a senior associate in the Department of Psychiatry, are the recipients of the 2020 Presidential Diversity Award.
Celebrating two decades of the MLK Commemorative Address
Since 2000, when the late Julian Bond spoke on the River Campus, the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address has been a winter tradition at the University of Rochester, bringing civil rights leaders, activists, poets, and icons to campus.