Features
Searching for Words
Linguists estimate that by the end of this century, half of the 7,000 languages currently in use around the world will have vanished. Rochester scholars join the race—and to train a new generation of scholars—to document the world’s linguistic diversity before it’s too late. Read more . . .
An Optical Family Tree
An effort to trace the number of companies with connections to the Institute of Optics found more than 150 alumni and faculty members have started their own businesses over the past six decades. Read more . . .
Delving into Data Science
The vast volume of data generated by the digital world has almost limitless potential as a resource for addressing social problems, fueling business, and more. The first students in the new academic programs at the Goergen Institute for Data Science are poised to be part of it all. Read more . . .
News
- Powerful Polymer
Recognition for two teammates.
- Tanks and Pancakes
Using simple tools to probe the universe.
- Ask the Archivist: It’s a Date
Questions for Melissa Mead, the John M. and Barbara Keil University Archivist and Rochester Collections Librarian.
- President’s Page
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Alumni
- Homefront Heroes
Tiffany Miller ’00 is bringing recognition to a forgotten group of women veterans.
- Paper Dressmaker Artist
Roxana Ramos ’11 uses paper to demonstrate the possibilities of art.
- Newsmakers
Tech startups, bodybuilders, and other alumni newsmakers.
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Connections
- Class Notes
- Books & Recordings
- Remembering Morris Shapiro ’33, ’34 (MS)
A physician for nearly eight decades.
- Remembering René Millon
A pathbreaking anthropologist.
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Rochester Review
March-April 2016
Vol. 78, No. 4
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