The Arts Four questions for director Ken Rus Schmoll November 29, 2017 The two-time Obie Award-winner is in Rochester to direct Octavia, a play ripped from the headlines in the year AD 62.
University News $2 million gift from Arnold Lisio ’56, ’61M (MD) and Anne Lisio endows Italian studies program November 28, 2017 Lisio Program in Italian Studies will ensure that students will always be able to study in Italy and have opportunities to enhance their understanding and appreciation for the language, art, culture, and history of Italy.
The Arts Octavia opens at Todd Theater November 22, 2017 The International Theatre Program closes its fall semester with the production of the rarely staged play Octavia, directed by Obie Award-winning guest director Ken Rus Schmoll.
Society & Culture One hundred years of solitude? Try 15 minutes instead November 21, 2017 In a series of experiments, Rochester psychologists found that people who sat alone without devices for 15 minutes and chose what to think about experienced the positive effects of solitude: feeling calmer and less anxious, without feeling lonely or sad.
Science & Technology In the mystery of positrons, dark matter is leading suspect November 16, 2017 Scientists at the HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory have ruled out two pulsars as the source of an unexpectedly large presence of positrons in our corner of the galaxy. Could they come from something more complex and exotic: dark matter?
Society & Culture History under a microscope November 13, 2017 The Future(s) of Microhistory symposium brings prominent historians to Rochester to discuss one of the most influential methodologies in their field in the last few decades.
Science & Technology Quantum magic makes quick work of measuring frequency November 8, 2017 Using the strange rules of quantum mechanics, researchers were able to put a quantum bit in a superposition of two different energy states at the same time in order to speed up the accurate measurement of frequencies.
Society & Culture What makes Pulitzer Prize–winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich curious? November 8, 2017 In a 1976 journal article, Ulrich coined a phrase that has become ubiquitous: Well-behaved women seldom make history. The Humanities Center hosts the feminist historian, who will speak about writing and micro-histories.
Society & Culture William Riker Prize in Political Science goes to MIT’s Acemoglu and Chicago’s Robinson November 7, 2017 The long-time collaborators and co-authors of Why Nations Fail were honored by the University's Department of Political Science for their work toward essentially building a new theory of political economy.
Society & Culture Thinking about time November 3, 2017 Spring forward. Fall back. On two Sundays each year, as we move in and out of Daylight Saving Time, time itself suddenly starts to seem a little arbitrary. Every discipline in the University has its own way of constructing and thinking about time.