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Crop of book cover art for Dangerous Children by Kenneth Gross.

When fictional children become stranger things

Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.

Andrés Arocho González.

Campus & Community

Andrés Arocho González ’24 to receive Truman Scholarship

The political science major from Puerto Rico is the first Rochester student to earn the honor since 2004.

Man in hard hat directs a group of students in hard hats touring the City of Rochester's graffiti-lined abandoned aqueduct underground subway.

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.

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

Health & Medicine

Professional organizations bestow honors on Rochester faculty

The recognitions highlight faculty contributions to imaging science, oral health, community building, toxicology, and more.

Art New York participant Angelica Aranda holds up a sheet of paper with art on it during a zine-making workshop.

Campus & Community

In Art New York, Angelica Aranda ’23 finds a niche in book art

A program for University of Rochester students inspires the Queens native to build community through art.

Close-up photo of Steven Schottenfeld, author of This Room Is Made of Noise.

Questions of character and motives drive professor’s new novel

In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?

Volcano erupting, shooting bright red lava high into a purple cloudy sky.

Science & Technology

Was plate tectonics occurring when life first formed on Earth?

Zircon crystals and magmas reveal new information about plate tectonic activity on Earth billions of years ago.

Fatou Jobe, who is translating Wolof fables into English, wears bright green while looking off camera in a library entryway.

Campus & Community

English major from The Gambia helps preserve ancient African fables

Fatoumatta Jobe is transcribing in Wolof—and then translating into English—centuries-old stories passed down orally.

Black and white archival photo of Russell Peck holding a book and teaching in front of a classroom full of students.

Russell Peck: The ‘ideal of what a humanities professor ought to be’

English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.

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

Health & Medicine

Awards and honors highlight Rochester faculty’s professional accomplishments

Optica, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gruber Foundation, and other organizations are among those bestowing recent honors on Rochester faculty.