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looping video of glacier ice melting and dripping.
Society & Culture
September 11, 2024 | 03:52 pm

On thinning ice

A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.

topics: climate change, Department of History, global engagement, Humanities Center, research finding, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver, sustainability,
Meliora in stone with confetti in front
University News
May 12, 2021 | 12:24 pm

2021 honorary degrees, medals, and teaching awards announced

Distinguished leaders, educators, and humanitarians will be honored during this spring’s commencement ceremonies.

topics: commencement, commencement awards, Department of Chemistry, Department of History, Eastman School of Music, Ellen Matson, featured-post-side, Institute of Optics, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Stewart Weaver, Warner School of Education,
Cars stopped at Northern Ireland border in 1950.
Society & Culture
May 10, 2021 | 11:07 am

100 years on: The partition of Ireland explained

Stewart Weaver, a professor of history whose teaching interests include Great Britain, Ireland, India, exploration, and the environment, offers an explainer on the partition of Ireland, which took place a century ago.

topics: Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver,
Himalayas climate change environmental history
Society & Culture
March 3, 2021 | 02:20 pm

Rochester Himalayan project receives environmental history award

Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an “outstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.”

topics: Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies, tanya bakhmetyeva,
map showing explorations into the unknown of Zheng He around Asia
Society & Culture
February 27, 2015 | 11:47 am

What drives human exploration of the unknown?

In his new book, professor of history Stewart Weaver chronicles journeys of discovery from the pre-historic trek of humans across the land bridge over the Bering Strait some 12,000 years ago to the mid-20th century deep sea voyages of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

topics: Department of History, Environmental Humanities Program, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver,