
Rochester’s latest CAREER award recipients pursue wide range of projects
University of Rochester researchers have received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty.

How do physical spaces help create community?
In her highly visual, multi-year project “Fertile Ground,” cultural anthropologist Kathryn Mariner is researching placemaking in the city of Rochester, and her focus on how community is formed is shared by this year’s Humanities Center lectures.

Kathryn Mariner wins Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for her work on social inequality
Kathryn Mariner, an assistant professor of anthropology and visual and cultural studies, is one of 32 faculty members in the United States named as new Career Enhancement Fellows.

Scholars call for more research into gun violence
More than a dozen researchers—from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other major institutions around the country—presented at the two-day symposium, aimed at addressing dearth of research data on gun violence.

Symposium on gun violence research attracts leading scholars
“The Social Life of Guns” symposium brings researchers from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and other universities and institutions to the University of Rochester for two days to spur more research on guns and gun violence.