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orchestra musicians on stage, with conductor's back facing the audience, all musicians in baseball uniforms, with the Red Wings baseball mascot in the foreground and a screen in the background showing Roberto Clemente playing baseball.
In Photos
December 10, 2019 | 11:35 am

Baseball in December? Absolutely.

Rachel Waddell, musical director for the Department of Music, joins Mittsy the Rochester Red Wings mascot for a community concert celebrating “150 Years of Baseball.” The University’s Chamber Orchestra and Concert Choir joined students from Rochester’s Roberto Clemente School No. 8 for a concert mimicked at night at the stadium.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, community, Rachel Waddel, School of Arts and Sciences,
Jerome Powell sits at a conference table filled with name plates for other Fed governors.
Society & Culture
December 9, 2019 | 12:31 pm

‘Absurd’ for Fed to leave its policy framework unchanged

Rochester professor of economics Narayana Kocherlakota expects to be disappointed this week, as the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee has signaled that it will make no changes to an eight-year-old policy statement for meeting inflation and unemployment goals.

topics: Department of Economics, faculty, Narayana Kocherlakota, School of Arts and Sciences, thought leadership,
three people pose for a photo with a surveyor tool.
Campus Life
December 3, 2019 | 01:21 pm

How do you bring a castle home with you?

How do you convey a 91,000-square-foot castle with more than 160 rooms on the Ghana coast, back to Rochester, so at any time you could take a virtual tour as if you were really there? Or study the castle’s structure brick by brick?

topics: Chris Muir, Department of History, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ghana, global engagement, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, interdisciplinary, Michael Jarvis, Program in Archaeology Technology and Historical Structures, School of Arts and Sciences,
a bank of flashtubs ignites in the OMEGA laser
Science & Technology
December 2, 2019 | 12:14 pm

When laser beams meet plasma: New data addresses gap in fusion research

Rochester scientists at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and their colleagues in California and France have directly demonstrated for the first time how laser beams modify the conditions of a plasma.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dustin Froula, featured-post-side, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Michael Campbell, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
portrait of three professors standing in front of a blackboard covered in equations.
Science & Technology
November 25, 2019 | 02:42 pm

Rochester cosmology group has all eyes on dark energy

Rochester’s newly formed cosmology group is at work to create the most detailed 3-D map of the universe ever seen.

topics: data science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, featured-post-side, Regina Demina, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Segev BenZvi,
Mostar Bridge lit up at night.
Society & Culture
November 20, 2019 | 10:59 am

Rochester historian takes a role in preserving world cultural heritage

Peter Christensen, an associate professor of art and art history at the University of Rochester, has a new role as a juror advising the United Nations in its work designating UNESCO World Heritage sites.

topics: Department of Art and Art History, faculty, featured-post-side, humanities, Peter Christensen, School of Arts and Sciences,
child sitting on a sofa, looking away, mother in the foreground, with her hands angrily on her hips
Society & Culture
November 18, 2019 | 04:17 pm

When do alcohol-dependent mothers parent harshly?

New Rochester research makes considerable progress towards understanding what triggers mothers with substance use disorders to treat their children harshly, and how parents and medical care providers can predict parenting difficulties.

topics: Department of Psychology, Melissa Sturge-Apple, parenting, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Exterior of the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Campus Life
November 14, 2019 | 04:05 pm

Six Rochester graduate students offered National Institutes of Health fellowship grants

Five graduate students from the University of Rochester Medical Center and one from the School of Arts and Sciences have been offered National Institutes of Health F31 fellowship grants to support their health-related research.

topics: awards, Department of Biology, fellowships, Medical Center, National Institutes of Health, School of Arts and Sciences,
Screen capture of New York Times' "Democracy Doesn't Come in a Box" video.
Voices & Opinion
November 12, 2019 | 01:24 pm

The US is fighting an unwinnable war in Afghanistan

In a New York Times video op-ed, Lyle Jeremy Rubin, a history PhD candidate at the University of Rochester, and four other American veterans argue that the nation’s longest war is not winnable.

topics: Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences,
two small metal discs submerged in a glass beaker filled with water, one stays sunk at the bottom, the other floats up to the surface
Science & Technology
November 6, 2019 | 02:04 pm

Superhydrophobic metal that won’t sink

Inspired by diving bell spiders and rafts of fire ants, Rochester researchers have created a metallic structure that is so water repellent, it refuses to sink—no matter how often it is forced into water or how much it is damaged.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute of Optics, Materials Science Program, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,