Tag: global engagement
University files federal lawsuit over H-1B visa rules
New federal regulations would make it more difficult for universities and other employers to hire and retain skilled foreign employees to work in the US under H-1B and some legal permanent resident status categories.
University links with WeWork to support undergraduates in China
The University of Rochester has recently joined with WeWork to provide work and study areas to undergraduates throughout China who are remote this semester.
New journal focuses on curbing violence against women in India
The University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Center is instrumental in starting an academic journal for best practices and scientific research on combating gender-based violence in South Asia.
University celebrates Supreme Court ruling upholding DACA program
The University reaffirms its unqualified support to its undocumented students and employees who study and work here under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Students on campus find joy in the little things
Not every student can go home. More than 700 Rochester undergraduates have been living on the River Campus, in single rooms, since the University closed residence halls for most of the undergraduate population, in late March.
A bittersweet spring for Rochester’s Davis Projects, DAAD RISE winners
It’s a bittersweet spring for the University’s 2020 Davis Projects for Peace and DAAD RISE winners. Fifteen students were selected for the summer programs, which have been canceled.
Fatima Zaidouni ’20 awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
The award will allow the physics and astronomy major to pursue a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in the UK beginning this fall.
Why is the universe made up almost exclusively of matter? Neutrinos may hold the key
Experiments conducted in a mine in Japan may hold clues to explain why the matter than makes up the universe escaped annihilation by anti-matter during the Big Bang.
How can understanding stories help in the American border crisis?
“It’s in our best interest to make sense of the US and Mexico as places that receive and places that send—that goes for both countries,” says associate professor of history Ruben Flores, who will host acclaimed writer Valeria Luiselli in the latest Humanities Center Public Lecture Series.
Advisory committee established to evaluate displays in Wilson Commons
A new advisory committee, jointly charged by President Sarah Mangelsdorf, Provost Robert Clark, and Dean of the College Jeffrey Runner, met this week to begin work on community outreach and engagement on the topic of displays in Hirst Lounge, Wilson Commons.