Science & Technology Time to throw away the plastics in your kitchen? July 1, 2025 Rochester researchers on the growing concern of plastics exposure on human health.
Science & Technology Research hub aims to unravel health effects of microplastic pollution April 20, 2024 The Rochester-based center will let researchers to investigate the interactions between plastic pollution, the Great Lakes environment, and human health.
In Photos Health, justice, and an abandoned aqueduct April 13, 2023 The University of Rochester students in PHLT 238: Environmental Health and Justice in the Rochester Community recently explored something hidden from most people in Rochester—the abandoned aqueduct and subway tunnel located under the Broad Street Bridge in the heart of downtown. The tour, led by ROC the Riverway Program Manager Kamal Crues (pictured), gave the 11 undergraduates a chance to consider multiple—and occasionally conflicting—interests and values central to the city’s “Aqueduct Reimagined” project. Read more.
In Photos An adapted classroom: Students and faculty find new ways to engage in teaching and learning September 18, 2020 Students and faculty members adapt to new—and safety-conscious—ways of interacting as teachers, scholars, and researchers.
Campus Life Public health joins dance to put arts into action January 10, 2019 In an effort to understand how to initiate change in a community, students in an Arts and Activism course, and their counterparts in an Environmental Health and Justice course, met up in Rochester dance studio to create some new moves.
Campus Life Hot town, Summer Sustainability Fellows in the city July 18, 2018 How will climate change affect the health and well-being of City of Rochester residents? This summer, students in a new sustainability fellowship program worked with city officials to help answer the question.