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Activist and writer Angela Davis is the next speaker coming to the University of Rochester in its “Difficult Conversations as a Catalyst for Change” series. Davis’ talk on “The University’s Role in Educating Students to be Engaged Citizens,” is scheduled ...

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Graduate schools’ reliance on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) in physics as a gateway exam might be helping to shut women and minorities out of doctoral programs, according to a statistical analysis led by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology. ...

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In Geneva, students at Finger Lakes Community College ferment wine, hoping their training will provide either a second career in the wine industry or a less-expensive leg up on bachelor’s degree they’ll complete at Cornell University. In North Chili, meanwhile, students at Roberts ...

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Symone Sanders, the youngest press secretary for a presidential candidate in history, will deliver the University of Rochester’s Martin Luther King Commemorative Address on Wednesday evening. Sanders, who now works as a political commentator for CNN, was national press secretary ...

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When it comes to agriculture, the industry is no Silicon Valley. Surveys conducted just a few years ago found that the average American farmer was 58 while the average American computer programmer was 31. The food and agriculture workforce has only gotten older since ...

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The University of Rochester’s new director of alumni relations and constituent engagement comes from a similar position at Harvard Law School. Karen Chance Mercurius will start her new job as associate vice president at UR March 18. “Karen is a ...

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A philosophy professor from Syracuse University will deliver a talk on “The Other America” at Nazareth College for its annual commemoration of Martin Luther King Day. The talk by Laurence Thomas is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jan. ...

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The New York Deaf Patient Care Council, a division of We the Deaf People Inc., will hold an open forum on deaf health care on Jan. 23 at the Robert F. Panara Theatre, LBJ Building, on the NTID Rochester Institute ...

Constance “Connie” Mitchell, who at the time of her election to the Monroe County Board of Supervisors in 1961 held the highest-ranking position of any African-American in the United States, has died. She was 90. Mrs. Mitchell crusaded for civil ...

A federal agriculture grant of $640,000 will help re-establish an urban youth 4-H program run by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County. The grant from the Children, Youth and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Project of the U.S. Department ...

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Angelica Perez-Delgado, an executive at the Villa of Hope, has been named president and CEO of the Ibero-American Action League. Perez-Delgado replaces longtime CEO Hilda Rosario Escher. “While Hilda is leaving behind a great legacy and we are sad to ...

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When Khuram Hussain was 7 years old he came to school to find a cupcake and an American flag on his desk. It wasn’t his birthday, and he hadn’t won some academic award. But it was a celebration: His parents ...

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Chris Edwards could have just been known as the advertising genius behind the singing-fish-on-the-wall campaign for McDonald’s. You know the one; “Gim-me that Filet-O-Fish, gim-me that fish.” It’s still annoyingly catchy, isn’t it? “I used to be known for my ...

His calm demeanor belies a passionate heart. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivered a message of reconciliation and acceptance at an event at the University of Rochester Monday night that attracted close to 2,000 people. The 20-year, record-smashing, center forward of the National ...

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He was considered the best basketball player of all time. And after six seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks and 14 with the Los Angeles Lakers during its 1980s dynasty era, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar went on to act, advocate, write, teach, ...

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