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Elmina Castle.
Society & Culture
December 3, 2019 | 01:37 pm

Ghana field school immerses students in ancient forts—and the legacies of slavery

For the last three summers, Rochester undergraduates have worked to analyze and preserve the ancient forts along the coast of Ghana, while exploring the historical and cultural context of the structures they study.

topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, featured-post-side, Ghana, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Michael Jarvis, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, Renato Perucchio,
three people pose for a photo with a surveyor tool.
Campus Life
December 3, 2019 | 01:21 pm

How do you bring a castle home with you?

How do you convey a 91,000-square-foot castle with more than 160 rooms on the Ghana coast, back to Rochester, so at any time you could take a virtual tour as if you were really there? Or study the castle’s structure brick by brick?

topics: Chris Muir, Department of History, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ghana, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Michael Jarvis, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, School of Arts and Sciences,
Joan Rubin and Wendi Heinzelman talking and laughing on the quad
The Arts
October 9, 2019 | 12:04 pm

What engineers and humanists can learn from one another

To Joan Shelley Rubin, the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, and Wendi Heinzelman, dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, engineering and the humanities are strongly connected.

topics: faculty, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Humanities Center, interdisciplinary, Joan Shelley Rubin, thought leadership, Wendi Heinzelman,
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,
detail from 15th century atlas
Society & Culture
April 13, 2018 | 01:01 pm

Going beyond medieval times to explore early worlds

The Early Worlds Initiative—an interdisciplinary research project at the University of Rochester—connects faculty researching social and cultural developments worldwide from medieval times to the early modern period.

topics: Department of English, Department of History, Eastman School of Music, featured-post-side, Humanities Center, interdisciplinary, Rossell Hope Robbins Library, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
March 5, 2018 | 11:56 am

Scholars examine memory through many lenses

From the post-Reformation trauma of Shakespeare’s history plays, to the poignant scrapbooks created by the families of British soldiers killed in World War I, the fellowships sponsored by the Humanities Center this year focus on the interdisciplinary study of memory and forgetting.

topics: Department of English, Eastman School of Music, featured-post, Humanities Center, interdisciplinary, School of Arts and Sciences,
professor poses for a photo with a robot
Science & Technology
February 21, 2018 | 12:22 pm

A professor and his robot study how we see

Meet Michele Rucci, a new professor in the University’s brain and cognitive sciences department, and his robot “Mr. T.” Rucci and his robot are using eye-tracking tools and virtual reality to replicate the small eye movements experienced by humans.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post-side, interdisciplinary, Michele Rucci, School of Arts and Sciences, virtual reality,
graduation cap reads FOREVER BETTER
Campus Life
February 15, 2018 | 12:28 pm

The Rochester Curriculum: Freedom, with intentionality

By the time they graduate from the University of Rochester, students will have take 128 credits and only one required course. “More than 90 percent of incoming students surveyed last year indicated that Rochester’s unique curriculum had a positive to strongly positive effect on their decision to enroll,” says Executive Director of College Enrollment Scott Clyde.

topics: interdisciplinary,
four students huddled around two laptops
Campus Life
February 15, 2018 | 12:03 pm

The Rochester Curriculum: Creating their own majors

Urban studies, neuroeconomics and international relations, and digital communications: these are just some of the interdisciplinary majors students have crafted by availing themselves to the independent nature of the Rochester Curriculum.

topics: interdisciplinary,
Bill Green and William Slattery
Campus Life
February 15, 2018 | 11:23 am

The Rochester Curriculum: ‘How come nobody else is doing this?’

Twenty-five years ago, the chairs of the religion and physics departments united in a common goal: To rid the undergraduate curriculum of mandatory courses students didn’t want to take, and give students the freedom to delve more deeply into the subjects they loved.

topics: interdisciplinary,