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Students attend the Candlelight ceremony during Welcome Week.

Campus & Community

Yellowjackets from the start: Welcome Week sets the tone for a new school year

August 30, 2026

Excitement, anticipation, and school spirit abound as new and returning students arrive at URochester for the start of the 2026–27 academic year.

Jessical Shang (left) with two students in her mechanical engineering lab.

University News

Can scientists predict—and control—turbulence?

August 26, 2026

URochester joins a new NSF–funded center to find the answers by combining experiments, theory, simulations, and AI.

Campus & Community

Deep dives and high stakes

August 25, 2026

From coral reefs to human spaceflight, two URochester alumni are asking questions—and finding answers—at the planet’s most demanding frontiers.

Portrait of Curtis Stewart holding a violin, lit dramatically against a reddish background with soft shadowed text.

From the Magazine

The class that changed me: Curtis Stewart ’08, ’08E

August 18, 2026

The Grammy nominee recalls the violin lessons at Eastman that at once terrified and inspired him.

Hire Rochester interns Alayna Leestma, Claire Cho, Triet Ly, and Ivan Cea Gomez on the URochester quad.

Campus & Community

New paid internship program helps URochester students launch careers

August 18, 2026

This summer’s inaugural Hire Rochester undergraduates are building skills, confidence, and professional connections.

Pinned bee specimens viewed head-on in a collection drawer, with a metallic green bee in sharp focus at center.

Science & Technology

20,000 ways to bee: Everything you want to know about bees

August 14, 2026

Professor Bob Minckley answers common questions about the surprisingly diverse—and downright weird—world of bees.

URochester PhD student and advisor in a lab to illustrate how to choose a PhD program and advisor.

Campus & Community

Thinking about a PhD? Your biggest questions, answered

August 10, 2026

Professor Darren Lipomi offers candid advice on choosing a graduate program, finding the right advisor, funding your education, and building a career in research.

Baby sleeping safely in crib.

University News

URochester’s Mt. Hope Family Center now home to the Baby Safe Sleep Coalition

August 10, 2026

The historic partnership and public health investment aim to reduce preventable infant deaths in Monroe County.

William Horn in a flight suit in front of a jet.

Campus & Community

From the classroom to the cockpit—and beyond

Rochester native and F-35B pilot William Horn ’14 returns home as a featured performer at this year’s Rochester International Airshow.

university seal.

University News

URochester faculty appointed to named professorships

Named positions are part of a long-standing tradition to celebrate the work of URochester’s faculty as researchers, scholars, and teachers.