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.
Mercedes Ramírez Fernández appointed University’s first Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
Mercedes Ramírez Fernández, associate vice provost for strategic affairs and diversity at Virginia Tech, will join the University on July 1 as Rochester’s first vice president for equity and inclusion.