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group portrait of students wearing ROCHESTER YOUTH YEAR t-shirts
Campus Life
July 24, 2017 | 02:49 pm

Rochester Youth Year fellows complete service year

Looking back over the program’s 10 years, about half of its participants have remained in or returned to Rochester, and five of the seven current University fellows will stay in the city.

topics: community, featured-post-side, Rochester Center for Community Leadership,
The Arts
July 21, 2017 | 12:06 pm

5 questions: Meet new conductor Rachel Waddell

Waddell joins the faculty of the Department of Music as the director of orchestral activities. She will teach and also conduct both the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, featured-post-side, Rachel Waddel, School of Arts and Sciences,
A glass ball perched atop a wooden post reflects a tree in the woods.
Society & Culture
July 10, 2017 | 04:17 pm

Philosopher Randall Curren considers why sustainability matters

In his new book Living Well Now and in the Future: Why Sustainability Matters Curren argues that the core of sustainability is the “long-term preservation of opportunities to live well.”

topics: book authors, Department of Philosophy, Environmental Humanities Program, featured-post-side, humanities, Randall Curren, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, sustainability,
woman in a bonnet
Society & Culture
July 5, 2017 | 12:12 pm

Quadcast: Mother of the Church

In her book Mother of the Church, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva, a lecturer with the Susan B. Anthony Institute, describes how Russian emigre Sofia Svechina rose in influence as an adviser to numerous political, social, and religious leaders of her day.

topics: book authors, featured-post-side, QuadCast, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,
table with three copies of the Gates Commission report
Society & Culture
June 28, 2017 | 10:44 am

Rochester, the draft, and an all-volunteer army

100 years after the Selective Service Act established conscription, we look back on the University faculty and administrators who helped end it.

topics: Department of Economics, featured-post-side, QuadCast, Simon Business School,
pink lockers
Society & Culture
June 16, 2017 | 03:23 pm

Unmasking female-centered bullying in schools

An anthropology professor chronicles her multi-year foray into a suburban high school to study female-specific bullying, competition, and aggression, concluding that actions assumed to be benign should be reclassified as violence.

topics: Department of Anthropology, featured-post-side, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences, teenagers, violence,
Science & Technology
June 15, 2017 | 04:51 pm

Ancient ozone levels provide a glimpse into future effects of climate change

A computer model developed at Rochester, and used to compare model data to analysis on 100,000-year-old Greenland ice cores, has shown a surprising result.

topics: climate change, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, featured-post-side, Lee Murray, Natural Sciences, planets, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
young woman reaching for a paper heart, ignoring a star, money and carrot
Society & Culture
June 14, 2017 | 01:33 pm

What really motivates us

Is it money, power, and fame? Or rather fear and punishment? For nearly 40 years Richard Ryan and Edward Deci, the founders of self-determination theory, have sought to answer the question of human motivation.

topics: Department of Psychology, Edward Deci, featured-post-side, QuadCast, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences,
portrait of Jeffry Runner
University News
June 4, 2017 | 11:42 am

Jeffrey Runner named dean of the College

The professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics succeeds Richard Feldman, who served as dean of the College for the past decade, and will begin his five-year term on July 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.

topics: announcements, featured-post-side, Jeffrey Runner,
artist rendering of a quantum dot
Science & Technology
May 26, 2017 | 09:21 am

Light emitting quantum dots could ease synthesis of novel compounds

Most chemists have studied quantum dots for their basic properties. But new research by Rochester scientists points to potential applications in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and agro-chemicals.

topics: Department of Chemistry, featured-post-side, Materials Science Program, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Todd Krauss,