
The Arts
Cultural visionary Arthur Satz leaves the largest endowed gift ever to support the humanities at Rochester
The gift establishes the Arthur Satz Department of Music and will fund a minimum of five professorships in the humanities within the School of Arts & Sciences.

Science & Technology
Inaugural Optics Professorship Recipient Named
Professor Govind Agrawal, a world leader in optical communications, is the first recipient of the Dr. James C. Wyant Professorship in Optics.

University News
Charles and Dale Phelps Endow Professorship
Theodore (Ted) Brown, professor of history, public health sciences, and medical humanities at the University, is the first to hold the honor.

University News
David Primo Named First Recipient of Gabrellian Professorship
Primo is the first to hold this endowed position, which recognizes a multidisciplinary scholar and teacher whose work bridges two or more academic fields.