Posts Tagged School of Arts and Sciences

University of Rochester undergraduate students and their biology professor study what paper wasps—and the parasites that manipulate them—can tell us about evolution, aging, and group living.

Researchers have provided a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth’s largest crater two billion years ago.

A first-generation college student and accomplished leader and scholar, Awad aims to address systemic racism and socioeconomic disparities within health care.

In fantasy sports, “your brain can twist and interpret fantasy results in ways that are suboptimal, lazy, and illogical,” explains brain and cognitive scientist Renee Miller.

The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.

Six Rochester researchers have received the National Science Foundation’s most esteemed recognition for early-career faculty members.

Baseball broadcasting expert Curt Smith penned an essay for the Library of Congress about Milo Hamilton’s memorable home run call.

New federal funding will support the center’s programs addressing child and family trauma at individual and systemic levels.

The author of multiple books on baseball, its storied stadiums and legendary broadcasters, recalls a baseball broadcasting legend.