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Seven University of Rochester faculty book covers arranged in a collage, featuring works on science, music, bees, immigration, adoption, and race.

From the Magazine

Faculty works: Fall 2026

October 29, 2026

Seven new books from URochester faculty span Beethoven, bees, and the borderlands.

Gourab Ghoshal sits at his desk in his office with a bookshelf full of books and objects behind him.

From the Magazine

Office hours with Gourab Ghoshal

October 29, 2026

The URochester professor on complex systems, the emergence of life and intelligence, and what distinguishes living systems from machines.

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch, wearing a green blazer, exchanges an elbow bump with an employee in the restaurant kitchen as another employee smiles.

Campus & Community

Shake Shack’s big cheese

October 29, 2026

Shake Shack CEO Rob Lynch ’99, ’00S (MBA) has built a career reviving restaurant brands by investing in people.

A split image contrasts the KivuWatt methane extraction barge on Rwanda’s Lake Kivu with fishermen working from wooden boats at sunset.

From the Magazine

Rethinking power on Lake Kivu

October 29, 2026

Anthropologist Kristin Doughty’s research shows how a vision of progress can be manipulated by those in power—and who bears those costs.

University of Rochester scientists Lee Murray, John Kessler, Vasilii Petrenko, and Thomas Weber pose with equipment used to study methane in the environment.

From the Magazine

The methane hunters

October 29, 2026

How URochester scientists are tracking the elusive greenhouse gas—and why it matters.

Collage of URochester students in their first-day-of-classes outfits, with mascot Rocky in the middle.

Campus & Community

First impressions: Rochester Review checked in on the first day of classes

October 29, 2026

Everyone had somewhere to be, a syllabus to read, and a semester to figure out. We stopped them anyway.

A hand in a stars-and-stripes sleeve holds a sign reading “The Science of Showing Up,” in red, white, and blue to illustrate voter turnout.

From the Magazine

What every American needs to know about voter turnout

October 21, 2026

Rochester political scientists explain why people do and don’t exercise their right to vote—and the implications of that choice for democracy.

A demonstrator helps carry an American flag as immigrants rights supporters march downtown.

Society & Culture

The power of being local in the immigration debate

October 21, 2026

A new book interrogates how the struggle over who counts as local shapes migration politics.

Benjamin Hafensteiner.

Campus & Community

Benjamin Hafensteiner: Helping students connect the dots

October 20, 2026

An engaging and approachable teaching style in chemistry earned Hafensteiner URochester’s highest award for undergraduate instruction.

ornate owl with the words Faculty Awards next to it.

University News

URochester faculty garner recognition for professional accomplishments

October 19, 2026

University of Rochester faculty are honored for contributions to their respective fields.