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An array of plastics and microplastics, from utensils to cigarette butts, against a white background.
Science & Technology
July 1, 2025 | 07:22 am

Time to throw away the plastics in your kitchen?

Rochester researchers on the growing concern of plastics exposure on human health.

topics: Ever Wonder, Jane van Dis, Katrina Korfmacher, Medical Center, School of Arts and Sciences, sustainability, Undergraduate Program in Public Health, videos,
Man in hard hat directs a group of students in hard hats touring the City of Rochester's graffiti-lined abandoned aqueduct underground subway.
In Photos
April 13, 2023 | 04:22 pm

Health, justice, and an abandoned aqueduct

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.

topics: community engagement, Katrina Korfmacher, public health, School of Arts and Sciences,
student and professor writing on opposite sides of clear pane
In Photos
September 18, 2020 | 02:34 pm

An adapted classroom: Students and faculty find new ways to engage in teaching and learning

Students and faculty members adapt to new—and safety-conscious—ways of interacting as teachers, scholars, and researchers.

topics: Chris Muir, Department of Art and Art History, Department of Biology, Department of Chemistry, Department of English, Department of Environmental Medicine, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, Joan Saab, Katrina Korfmacher, Program of Dance and Movement,
group of students in the foreground making gestures and movements with hands and arms as another group of students stands in a semicircle behind them
Campus Life
January 10, 2019 | 03:04 pm

Public health joins dance to put arts into action

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.

topics: community, Department of Environmental Medicine, Katrina Korfmacher, Program of Dance and Movement, public health, School of Arts and Sciences,
Summer Sustainability Fellows asked Rochester resident to complete a climate change survey.
Campus Life
July 18, 2018 | 01:10 pm

Hot town, Summer Sustainability Fellows in the city

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.

topics: Arts Sciences and Engineering, climate change, community, Department of Environmental Medicine, Katrina Korfmacher, public health, sustainability,