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Pablo Sierra Silva sits and gestures while teaching among a couple of students seen from behind.

Campus & Community

Pablo Sierra Silva: Using primary sources to immerse students in the past

The history professor leads his class back in time to analyze events that shaped today’s world.

A person in a yellow shirt seen from behind works with a transmission electron microscope in a darkened room.

Science & Technology

University secures federal funding to enable advanced quantum research

The funding supports the acquisition of a state-of-the-art transmission electron microscope to accelerate research in quantum information science.

White text reads "Faculty Awards" against a blue-colored background image of architectural detail featuring an ironwork owl and vines.

University News

Faculty recognized for their professional contributions and statures

An NSF CAREER Award, a ‘best publication’ honor, and leadership positions with national organizations comprise recent faculty achievements.

Closeup of Morris Eaves smiling with William Blake illustrations in the background.

Morris Eaves, English professor who breathed new life into William Blake scholarship, remembered

February 27, 2024

The scholar made the British poet and “multimedia artist” accessible to a wide audience.

Alexei Navalny staring ahead with a crowd of people behind him holding Russian flags.

Society & Culture

Scholar in Exile on Alexei Navalny: ‘One day I’ll walk along a street in Moscow named after him’

February 21, 2024

Dmitry Bykov discusses the late Russian opposition leader’s legacy, his own poisoning, and why Navalny posed a threat to the Russian president.

Still from Psycho horror film showing Norman Bates greeting Marion Crane and Sam Loomis at hotel desk.

The work of horror films

February 20, 2024

A collection of essays coedited by Jason Middleton explores the "monster" of late capitalism lurking in modern American horror films.

Detail of Caravaggio's "The Conversion of Saint Paul" shows Saul sprawled on the ground beneath a horse's legs, blinded and with his arms raised. A crop of the painting serves as the cover art for Jennifer Grotz's "Still Falling: Poems."

A poet’s meditation on loss, light, and legacy

February 20, 2024

Still Falling, English professor Jennifer Grotz’s fourth collection of poems, illuminates the connection between art and time.

Close up of a framed photo of Alexei Navalny, who led one of the recent opposition movements against Vladimir Putin, surrounded by flowers during a nighttime vigil after reports of his death.

Society & Culture

Why did Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have to die?

February 19, 2024

Rochester experts discuss Putin’s intense fear of critics, the history of Russian and Soviet opposition movements, and what’s next for Russia’s dissidents.

three students seated on a bench look over the back of the bench.

Campus & Community

For whom the bells toll: Siblings honor late father

February 13, 2024

A bench on the River Campus stands as a memorial to the man who discovered the University of Rochester for his three children.

Falling rocks warning sign in front of rocks and boulders of various sizes along a mountainside to illustrate the idea of granular systems.

Science & Technology

Reshaping our understanding of granular systems

February 9, 2024

Rochester researchers are uncovering the unexpected role of grain shape in the mixing of granular systems such as pharmaceuticals, cereal, and landslides.