Richard Feldman, president of the University of Rochester for nearly 18 months, gave this bit of parting advice Tuesday night: “If you ever get invited to the Nobel Prize ceremony, go,” Feldman said. He was talking to an audience of ...

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The University of Rochester will no longer require applicants to submit standardized test results for admission. Since 2011, UR’s Office of Admissions has had a flexible policy on standardized tests – not requiring a specific test but requiring that one ...

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Melissa Sturge-Apple has been named vice provost and university dean of graduate education at the University of Rochester. Apple, a 1992 graduate of the university, currently serves as dean of graduate education and postdoctoral affairs in arts, sciences & engineering ...

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Jonathan Binstock has been appointed for a second five-year term as director of the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery. During his first five years as the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark director of the MAG, Binstock has expanded ...

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Mercedes Ramírez Fernández will join the staff July 1, coming from Virginia Tech, where she has been associate vice provost for strategic affairs and diversity.

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Sarah C. Mangelsdorf won’t be the only headliner when she’s formally installed as the president of the University of Rochester in October. Mangelsdorf, currently the provost at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will be inaugurated during Meliora Weekend, Oct. ...

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The main graduation ceremony for the University of Rochester takes place Sunday morning with the first female Nobel laureate from UR giving the commencement address. Exercises for the colleges of arts, sciences and engineering begin at 9 a.m. on the ...

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Two anonymous alumni of the University of Rochester have provided a gift to the Eastman School of Music that will create an endowed professorship honoring the late Paul Burgett. Burgett, who died in 2018 at age 72 after a brief ...

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Louise M. Slaughter’s congressional papers are being donated to the University of Rochester. The late congresswoman, who died in 2018 while still in Congress, represented the Rochester area for 31 years and 16 terms. The university announced the donation from ...

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Keuka College has elevated Amy Storey, who has been interim president since last July, to the job permanently. The Keuka board of trustees voted to offer the job to Storey Monday, after a nationwide search with more than 100 applicants. ...

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One thing Cam Schauf knows after decades of running dining services at the University of Rochester: don’t change things up too much in April or May. This high-stress period at the end of second semester is not the time to experiment at ...

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  Lorne Farovitch, a graduate student at the University of Rochester, grew up deaf in a deaf family in Vancouver, British Columbia. His family situation meant that until the age of 24, Farovitch didn’t communicate with people in any other ...

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It’s hard to imagine that when lasers were first invented there was a bit of a “so what?” reaction. In 1960, light was the main application people could envision from lasers and the question was why did we need a new source of light?...

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Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, will be the university’s commencement speaker May 19. Strickland now teaches physics at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, but was recognized by the Nobel ...

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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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